Follow-ups - Kluge by Gary marcus - stumbling upon happiness -
2024-05-09
- Rat brains → if you introduce intermittent reward, rats can push the button 1,000 times.
- Slot machines: help win every 5-10. Then progressively slow it down over time until the person is empty. It’s manipulation
- Habit: cue, routine, reward. The Power of Habit. Keep the cue and reward equivalent, change the routine. Practice in your mind
- Every victory is a mix of work and luck. Seek truth.
- Self-serving bias: they messed up, I did great. I would have won every tournament if it weren’t for luck
- we’re more likely to reshape our perspective of the situation to have it conform to our own beliefs rather than accept the truth. #LossAversion Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Wanna bet on it? → forces you to think. If I say “I’m 60% confident citizen Kane won best picture”, it forces you to think why 60%. What’s 6/10? Perhaps - 6 times out of ten my gut gets such a thing right.
2024-04-29
- reactive vs deliberative brain.
- Losses feels 2x as bad as wins. Losses are not costs.
- I’m not sure → if there’s a 24% chance then that’s one of the 24/100 possible outcomes. And it happened.
- Scale: 0 to 500. → really bad scale.
- Life is more like poker than chess. Poker: you can do the best thing but there are so many things out of your control. Novices can win. Luck.
- → Ecclesiaates.
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