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mare-of-night comments on Reinforcement and Short-Term Rewards as Anti-Akratic - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: mare-of-night 15 April 2013 08:57:58PM 0 points [-]

This seems OK to me. The reward should be instant, to create a better connection with the behavior you want to reward.

That's just what I was thinking - the association would be stronger if the reward were instant

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