timtyler comments on Backchaining causes wishful thinking - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 19 May 2010 09:58:32PM *  0 points [-]

This all sounds very strange to me. If there is a supervisor - but all they do is use a carrot and a stick - then I think that would generally be classified as reinforcement learning. Supervised learning is where the learner gets given the correct outputs - or is told the right answers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervised_learning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsupervised_learning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-supervised_learning

Comment author: PhilGoetz 19 May 2010 10:57:13PM *  0 points [-]

I'm saying that applying carrot/stick is equivalent to saying yes/no.

I deleted the whole paragraph about supervised/unsupervised, since it contributed nothing and was obviously a distraction.