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Mar 25, 2021

Broadly speaking, which works better at achieving desired results: positive reinforcement (encouraging behavior you want) or negative reinforcement (discouraging behavior you don’t want)?

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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@visakanv

in a vacuum, negative reinforcement has a bigger effect on people's behavior, but as a contingent fact about current social realities, imo the market for negative reinforcement is extremely oversaturated relative to positive reinforcement, and people are tired of it

3:29 AM · Mar 25, 2021Twitter Web App

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People react more strongly to negative reinforcement, but in some random direction away from the negative stimulus. Whereas if you have a specific direction you want to steer people towards, positive reinforcement is a smaller nudge, but in the right direction

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Mar 25, 2021

agh someone tweeted a cool diagram explaining this recently but i can't find it, maybe it was

@Malcolm_Ocean

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