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ChristianKl comments on Does random reward evoke stronger habits? - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Bound_up 17 August 2015 09:03PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 17 August 2015 09:16:35PM 2 points [-]

It seems that in the case of casino's unpredictability is an important part. If you make a conscious choice to reward yourself every 4th times you lose that element of unpredictability.

I would also expect that the optimal percentage is context dependent and the 25% don't generalize to every task and reward.