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I think the "chimps in a cage" needs some followup experiments to tell the whole story -- replacing the banana with a much higher value reward, or placing anoth
by zzyzxd 2y ago
I think the "chimps in a cage" needs some followup experiments to tell the whole story -- replacing the banana with a much higher value reward, or placing another water hose which fires if chimps stopped trying to reach the reward ;)
Most likely, useless controls exist because the company thinks they are good enough for the business and there's no incentive to improve or replace them.
- satisfice 2y agoThe chimps story is made up. There was a study that tried to test something like that but only in one case, out of many trials, was a chimp discouraged from doing something by another chimp, due to the second chimp’s fear.