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You and your sense of focus are simply the sum total of all the reinforcements you have experienced in your life.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Policy-based approaches led to a system—be it animal, human, or machine—with highly trained “muscle memory.”
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
COMPLEX COGNITIVE CREATURES AREN’T BLANK SLATES.
Ernest Davis • Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
As it happens, in 1953 Skinner had pointed in the other direction, using the slot machine to exemplify the most potent of reinforcement schedules—in which subjects never know when they will be rewarded, or how much.
Natasha Dow Schüll • Addiction by Design
if science is their method and behavior their outcome, they too are behavioral scientists.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
Yes, it is correct to say that your brain determines your behavior. But it is equally correct to say that your behavior changes your brain.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
The loop of putting out actions and evaluating the feedback is the key to understanding not just motor babbling but also social babbling. Consider how you learned (and continue to learn) communication with other people. You constantly put social actions into the world, assess the feedback, and adjust. We rove the space of possibilities, trying out
... See moreDavid Eagleman • Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
The automatic system has its finger on the dopamine release button. The controlled system, in contrast, is better seen as an advisor. It’s a rider placed on the elephant’s back to help the elephant make better choices.