Will_Newsome comments on The Power of Reinforcement - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 21 June 2012 06:09:36AM 3 points [-]

Here's a fixed, less passive-agressive version of the deleted comment:

This article implicitly reinforces reinforcement and punishes punishment. But there are situations in which punishment should be reinforced, e.g. if this article is in fact correct to punish punishment. I hope someday someone writes out a list of ways to efficiently torture oneself into having at least some hope of ultimately not being seen as obviously stupid in retrospect, to complement this article and perhaps adjust for any optimistic-biased selection that might have generated it.