if we had access to the vocabulary of operant conditioning we'd have a framework for observing tons of everyday mind control shit. like, adding an aversive stimulus is positive punishment, but once the agent accepts the stimulus as normal, removing it is negative reinforcement
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but we can't have these conversations because literal psychology professors will tell you in a classroom that "negative reinforcement" is a fancy term for punishment, and even if they don't fuck that up the chances of "positive punishment" passing their lips are nil
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and okay, this is a a time-hallowed way of generating secret knowledge, hiding it in plain sight behind a wall of absolute garbage folk interpretation, and technically i should probably be pleased by that but i'm not. i'm just not
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