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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
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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  • negative reinforcement
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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
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Prince J0eFool
@CountJ0ecool
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
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