A third paper looks at a related topic: helping others. When a person needs help & all someone can do is provide a little assistance, rather than solving the entire problem, the helper is often reluctant to do anything because they think partial help will not be valued. Again, people really appreciate even small amounts of help.
The author took its readers on a quest to quit social media, keeping their phone in the hand at all times, and ultimately deleting the most addicting app on their phone.
🧠🚨New memory paper🚨🧠
A new paper from @Plastic_Labs combines concepts from developmental psychology with LLMs in order to simulate more complex memory
"Violation of Expectation via Metacognitive Prompting Reduces Theory of Mind Prediction Error in Large Language... See more
Greg Brockman’s unpublished chemistry textbook. Designed around problems.
Participants in three experiments wrote gratitude letters and then predicted how surprised, happy, and awkward recipients would feel. Recipients then reported how receiving an expression of gratitude actually made them feel. Expressers significantly underestimated how surprised recipients would be about why expressers were grateful, overestimated... See more