Dr_Manhattan comments on Physical and Mental Behavior - Less Wrong

48 Post author: Yvain 10 July 2011 08:20PM

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Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 11 July 2011 12:29:31PM 0 points [-]

I didn't learn this the first time, and I doubt most other people do either. And it's a tough problem to call, because if you overdo the negative reinforcement, then you never try to do anything difficult ever again.

I think the solution to this is already described by you in the Wanting vs. Liking post -

Reinforcement learning doesn't just connect single stimuli to responses. It connects stimuli in a context to responses.

So if I do not want to overgeneralize the negative reinforcement, it seems worthwhile to pay attention to legitimate excuses - "Swahili is cool, but really hard to learn due to dearth of subtitled Swahili movies".