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The Blue-Minimizing Robot

Feb 22, 2018 by Scott Alexander

A sequence on models of the human mind, drawing on psychology and neuroscience to discuss motivation, learning and behaviour.

330The Blue-Minimizing Robot
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73Basics of Animal Reinforcement
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57Basics of Human Reinforcement
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66Time and Effort Discounting
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63Wanting vs. Liking Revisited
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98Prospect Theory: A Framework for Understanding Cognitive Biases
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89Physical and Mental Behavior
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47Voluntary Behavior, Conscious Thoughts
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66Trivers on Self-Deception
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80To what degree do we have goals?
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111The limits of introspection
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89Ego syntonic thoughts and values
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164Approving reinforces low-effort behaviors
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61Connectionism: Modeling the mind with neural networks
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135Secrets of the eliminati
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51Tendencies in reflective equilibrium
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