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  1. 1. How to be asked never to return to the family reunion
    2. How to demonstrate thermodynamics to a few dozen bored, sweaty kids
    3. How to workshop an idea for a paper

    When you've got too much to do, sometimes you've got go multi-task

    #physics #familyfun #whydonttheycallanymore #mustbethechildrenthatarewrong #skinner

  2. 𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗺𝘁 𝗻𝗮 20 𝗷𝗮𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗳𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗱 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗳𝗱𝗼𝗻𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿

    Hoofdontwerper Craig Skinner heeft na een dienstverband van twintig jaar het Formule 1-team van Red Bull verlaten. Hij speelde een belangrijke rol bij de successen van het team. Max Verstappen won tussen 2021 en 2024 vier wereldtitels.

    rtl.nl/nieuws/sport/artikel/55

    #RedBull #hoofdontwerper #Skinner

  3. festen Regeln („Gott hat zwei Geschlechter erschaffen“), obwohl kein empirischer Zusammenhang besteht.
    Warum? Weil Muster Sicherheit und Kontrolle versprechen – selbst wenn sie illusorisch sind.
    ➡️ Mechanismus:
    Wahrgenommene Korrelation → Verstärkung (soziale Anerkennung, Tradition) → Stabilisierung des Glaubens.
    Fazit:
    Aberglaube und religiöser Glaube beruhen auf dem gleichen psychologischen Prinzip: Die Suche nach Sinn in Zufall.
    2
    #Psychologie #Behaviorismus #Skinner #Aberglaube #Glauben

  4. festen Regeln („Gott hat zwei Geschlechter erschaffen“), obwohl kein empirischer Zusammenhang besteht.
    Warum? Weil Muster Sicherheit und Kontrolle versprechen – selbst wenn sie illusorisch sind.
    ➡️ Mechanismus:
    Wahrgenommene Korrelation → Verstärkung (soziale Anerkennung, Tradition) → Stabilisierung des Glaubens.
    Fazit:
    Aberglaube und religiöser Glaube beruhen auf dem gleichen psychologischen Prinzip: Die Suche nach Sinn in Zufall.
    2
    #Psychologie #Behaviorismus #Skinner #Aberglaube #Glauben

  5. festen Regeln („Gott hat zwei Geschlechter erschaffen“), obwohl kein empirischer Zusammenhang besteht.
    Warum? Weil Muster Sicherheit und Kontrolle versprechen – selbst wenn sie illusorisch sind.
    ➡️ Mechanismus:
    Wahrgenommene Korrelation → Verstärkung (soziale Anerkennung, Tradition) → Stabilisierung des Glaubens.
    Fazit:
    Aberglaube und religiöser Glaube beruhen auf dem gleichen psychologischen Prinzip: Die Suche nach Sinn in Zufall.
    2
    #Psychologie #Behaviorismus #Skinner #Aberglaube #Glauben

  6. festen Regeln („Gott hat zwei Geschlechter erschaffen“), obwohl kein empirischer Zusammenhang besteht.
    Warum? Weil Muster Sicherheit und Kontrolle versprechen – selbst wenn sie illusorisch sind.
    ➡️ Mechanismus:
    Wahrgenommene Korrelation → Verstärkung (soziale Anerkennung, Tradition) → Stabilisierung des Glaubens.
    Fazit:
    Aberglaube und religiöser Glaube beruhen auf dem gleichen psychologischen Prinzip: Die Suche nach Sinn in Zufall.
    2
    #Psychologie #Behaviorismus #Skinner #Aberglaube #Glauben

  7. festen Regeln („Gott hat zwei Geschlechter erschaffen“), obwohl kein empirischer Zusammenhang besteht.
    Warum? Weil Muster Sicherheit und Kontrolle versprechen – selbst wenn sie illusorisch sind.
    ➡️ Mechanismus:
    Wahrgenommene Korrelation → Verstärkung (soziale Anerkennung, Tradition) → Stabilisierung des Glaubens.
    Fazit:
    Aberglaube und religiöser Glaube beruhen auf dem gleichen psychologischen Prinzip: Die Suche nach Sinn in Zufall.
    2
    #Psychologie #Behaviorismus #Skinner #Aberglaube #Glauben

  8. In 1938, B.F. Skinner began to advocate a radical scientific approach to studying and controlling animal behavior. #Poetry #Science #History #Behaviorism #Skinner (sharpgiving.com/Sharp/thebooko)

  9. In 1938, B.F. Skinner began to advocate a radical scientific approach to studying and controlling animal behavior. #Poetry #Science #History #Behaviorism #Skinner (sharpgiving.com/Sharp/thebooko)

  10. In 1938, B.F. Skinner began to advocate a radical scientific approach to studying and controlling animal behavior. #Poetry #Science #History #Behaviorism #Skinner (sharpgiving.com/Sharp/thebooko)

  11. In 1938, B.F. Skinner began to advocate a radical scientific approach to studying and controlling animal behavior. #Poetry #Science #History #Behaviorism #Skinner (sharpgiving.com/Sharp/thebooko)

  12. In 1938, B.F. Skinner began to advocate a radical scientific approach to studying and controlling animal behavior. #Poetry #Science #History #Behaviorism #Skinner (sharpgiving.com/Sharp/thebooko)

  13. CW: LLMs as addiction / operant conditioning

    Some very insightful comments in this thread i.m.o.

    "It's classic Skinnerian operant conditioning with intermittent (variable rate) rewards. You want whatever it's outputting to be good (code, text, image, etc). Sometimes it isn't but sometimes it is, and you can't usually understand why. When it is good, you experience the reward. The fact that the reward is intermittent and inscrutable makes the desire to repeat the behavior extremely strong."

    "Normally an intermittent reward is a sign of a skill that one can master. ... It makes sense that as a species for which tool use is so fundamental that we'd be especially prone to this. ... But we really aren't prepared for when the thing can't be mastered, where it's fundamentally unreliable."

    "the slot machine cycle... if I can just figure out exactly how to word this prompt..."

    "It feels so overwhelmingly good to some % of people they don't even bother to measure if their AI stuff is actually doing anything useful, because of course it must be, because the feeling is so strong."

    merveilles.town/@cancel/114881

    #LLMs #addiction #Skinner #behaviourism #OperantConditioning #VariableReinforcement

  14. CW: LLMs as addiction / operant conditioning

    Some very insightful comments in this thread i.m.o.

    "It's classic Skinnerian operant conditioning with intermittent (variable rate) rewards. You want whatever it's outputting to be good (code, text, image, etc). Sometimes it isn't but sometimes it is, and you can't usually understand why. When it is good, you experience the reward. The fact that the reward is intermittent and inscrutable makes the desire to repeat the behavior extremely strong."

    "Normally an intermittent reward is a sign of a skill that one can master. ... It makes sense that as a species for which tool use is so fundamental that we'd be especially prone to this. ... But we really aren't prepared for when the thing can't be mastered, where it's fundamentally unreliable."

    "the slot machine cycle... if I can just figure out exactly how to word this prompt..."

    "It feels so overwhelmingly good to some % of people they don't even bother to measure if their AI stuff is actually doing anything useful, because of course it must be, because the feeling is so strong."

    merveilles.town/@cancel/114881

    #LLMs #addiction #Skinner #behaviourism #OperantConditioning #VariableReinforcement

  15. CW: LLMs as addiction / operant conditioning

    Some very insightful comments in this thread i.m.o.

    "It's classic Skinnerian operant conditioning with intermittent (variable rate) rewards. You want whatever it's outputting to be good (code, text, image, etc). Sometimes it isn't but sometimes it is, and you can't usually understand why. When it is good, you experience the reward. The fact that the reward is intermittent and inscrutable makes the desire to repeat the behavior extremely strong."

    "Normally an intermittent reward is a sign of a skill that one can master. ... It makes sense that as a species for which tool use is so fundamental that we'd be especially prone to this. ... But we really aren't prepared for when the thing can't be mastered, where it's fundamentally unreliable."

    "the slot machine cycle... if I can just figure out exactly how to word this prompt..."

    "It feels so overwhelmingly good to some % of people they don't even bother to measure if their AI stuff is actually doing anything useful, because of course it must be, because the feeling is so strong."

    merveilles.town/@cancel/114881

    #LLMs #addiction #Skinner #behaviourism #OperantConditioning #VariableReinforcement

  16. CW: LLMs as addiction / operant conditioning

    Some very insightful comments in this thread i.m.o.

    "It's classic Skinnerian operant conditioning with intermittent (variable rate) rewards. You want whatever it's outputting to be good (code, text, image, etc). Sometimes it isn't but sometimes it is, and you can't usually understand why. When it is good, you experience the reward. The fact that the reward is intermittent and inscrutable makes the desire to repeat the behavior extremely strong."

    "Normally an intermittent reward is a sign of a skill that one can master. ... It makes sense that as a species for which tool use is so fundamental that we'd be especially prone to this. ... But we really aren't prepared for when the thing can't be mastered, where it's fundamentally unreliable."

    "the slot machine cycle... if I can just figure out exactly how to word this prompt..."

    "It feels so overwhelmingly good to some % of people they don't even bother to measure if their AI stuff is actually doing anything useful, because of course it must be, because the feeling is so strong."

    merveilles.town/@cancel/114881

    #LLMs #addiction #Skinner #behaviourism #OperantConditioning #VariableReinforcement

  17. CW: LLMs as addiction / operant conditioning

    Some very insightful comments in this thread i.m.o.

    "It's classic Skinnerian operant conditioning with intermittent (variable rate) rewards. You want whatever it's outputting to be good (code, text, image, etc). Sometimes it isn't but sometimes it is, and you can't usually understand why. When it is good, you experience the reward. The fact that the reward is intermittent and inscrutable makes the desire to repeat the behavior extremely strong."

    "Normally an intermittent reward is a sign of a skill that one can master. ... It makes sense that as a species for which tool use is so fundamental that we'd be especially prone to this. ... But we really aren't prepared for when the thing can't be mastered, where it's fundamentally unreliable."

    "the slot machine cycle... if I can just figure out exactly how to word this prompt..."

    "It feels so overwhelmingly good to some % of people they don't even bother to measure if their AI stuff is actually doing anything useful, because of course it must be, because the feeling is so strong."

    merveilles.town/@cancel/114881

    #LLMs #addiction #Skinner #behaviourism #OperantConditioning #VariableReinforcement