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Ella's avatar

They way we train ourselves is the same way we most commonly train our animals, which is through a predominately negative-reinforcement model rather than a +R one. Which is loss aversion. We do it because we believe in original sin, in punishment, in our own innate un-enoughness and supposed evil base nature as situated in christianity/puritanism/capitalism and the assumed natural greed of humans so often used as justification for it. Etc. etc. But we are not evil and we are not bad, at our cores. We turn toward the sun.

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Slava's avatar

I love most of your writing, but II is way off

https://philomaticalgorhythms.substack.com/p/psa-ai-will-not-take-your-job-and

Part I is interesting, I didn't know that there were some empirical discrepancies found to the Prospect Theory model, I've always thought it to be a leading contender for an alternative to the (obviously false) closed form utility function paradigm in Microeconomics

Part III is missing the message of hope: with everyone looking to optimize their image of a thing, one can much easier get what they want in the real world by promising someone else get public credit for it. And more broadly, there is simply much less competition for scarce physical goods and visceral experiences.

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