MBlume comments on The Power of Reinforcement - Less Wrong

96 Post author: lukeprog 21 June 2012 01:42PM

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Comment author: MBlume 21 June 2012 03:00:14AM 35 points [-]

Good post! Thank you for writing it Luke =)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 June 2012 03:57:36AM 29 points [-]

Thanks for reinforcing Luke! And it's great that you applied the theory so quickly!

Comment author: JGWeissman 21 June 2012 04:06:19AM 20 points [-]

Yay recursive reinforcement!

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 June 2012 04:19:53AM 8 points [-]

Why, thanks! It's helpful to hear you say that!

Comment author: CharlieSheen 21 June 2012 02:35:41PM 24 points [-]

I think I'm going to be ill if this continues.

Comment author: Dorikka 21 June 2012 04:51:16AM -1 points [-]

Moar recursion! Keep it up! :D

Comment author: Will_Newsome 21 June 2012 04:56:58AM 28 points [-]

No. Unreflective happy death spirals get people killed. Shame on all of you for being bad people.

Comment author: RomeoStevens 21 June 2012 05:49:25AM 11 points [-]

I'm glad you mentioned this.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 21 June 2012 05:59:39AM *  9 points [-]

Don't be glad. If you need reinforcement, be relieved. Gladness tends to cause unreflective happy death spirals. Shame on you for being glad.

Presumably the emotion you actually felt was relief, and "glad" was merely used as an inaccurate/misleading synonym? In which case, shame on you for using inaccurate/misleading synonyms.

(I'm totally at least a quarter serious, maybe half.)

Comment author: JGWeissman 21 June 2012 06:06:54AM 12 points [-]

Thank you for wanting us to not have unreflective happy death spirals. I will have to repeat the behavior that caused you to express such caring.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 21 June 2012 09:31:47AM 21 points [-]

I guess now it's the right time to say big thanks to everyone who didn't contribute to this thread!

Comment author: Will_Newsome 21 June 2012 06:17:24AM *  3 points [-]

I don't want you to not have unreflective happy death spirals, I'm just horrified at the potential consequences of not going out of my way to prevent you from having unreflective happy death spirals. Shame on you for imprecision and/or implicitly accusing me of hypocrisy.

Comment author: arundelo 21 June 2012 03:11:04AM 6 points [-]

I see what you did there!

Comment author: [deleted] 21 June 2012 08:33:42AM 0 points [-]

(I didn't until EY pointed that out.)

Comment author: FiftyTwo 26 June 2012 01:17:11AM 0 points [-]

Good on you for admitting error.

Comment author: CommanderShepard 21 June 2012 03:25:13PM *  5 points [-]

"god this is even more phygish than just that quote about eliezer getting fed mnms"

Comment author: Will_Sawin 21 June 2012 05:33:51PM 4 points [-]

what's "phygish"?

Comment author: shminux 21 June 2012 05:37:50PM 3 points [-]
Comment author: radical_negative_one 21 June 2012 07:14:21PM -1 points [-]
Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 22 June 2012 01:34:58AM 2 points [-]

That strikes me as goofy, not phygish.

Comment author: Dorikka 22 June 2012 03:21:57AM 0 points [-]

I agree, so much that I think I might be missing something.