toto comments on Open Thread: March 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: toto 01 March 2010 02:24:10PM *  14 points [-]

Behind a paywall

But freely available from one of the authors' website.

Basically, pigeons also start with a slight bias towards keeping their initial choice. However, they find it much easier to "learn to switch" than humans, even when humans are faced with a learning environment as similar as possible to that of pigeons (neutral descriptions, etc.). Not sure how interesting that is.