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I don't like the comparison at all. Behaviorism has been long discredited in favour of more complex representations of our cognitive process [1]. Please don't
by guiltyf 9mo ago
I don't like the comparison at all. Behaviorism has been long discredited in favour of more complex representations of our cognitive process [1].
Please don't treat people around you like experiments.
[1] https://personal.utdallas.edu/~tres/spatial/tolman.pdf https://personal.utdallas.edu/~tres/spatial/tolman.pdf
- cindyllm 9mo ago[dead]
- jampekka 9mo agoThat Behaviorism rejected complex internal states (or "cognitive representations") was and is a bit of a strawman. The point is that the internal states must be defined such that they can be grounded in observable behavior.
- mentalgear 9mo ago> Please don't treat people around you like experiments. Isn't it fitting that the guy who wrote the blog is the CTO of Meta/Facebook, who are quasi experimenting for-profit on people for over 20 years.
- AndrewKemendo 9mo agoNothing quasi about it, the entirety of the facebook universe is a giant Skinner box
- DANmode 9mo agoThis is the official publication where Facebook researchers and academic collaborators reported the findings of their 2012 News Feed experiment that manipulated emotional content and measured effects on users’ posting behavior. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1320040111 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1320040111