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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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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Tbh its just language being a bitch. If we could stop saying positive to mean good and negative to mean bad that would fix many science-to-layperson translation problems. But we won’t.
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or technically i guess psychology and cybernetics and whatever could just leave the stone at the bottom of the hill and start saying "additive" and "subtractive" instead of "positive" and "negative"
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there were exactly two behaviorists at my college & i made sure i took classes with them & i was stunned by how effective ABA is
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there are people out there who have psychology PhDs that still know actually less than nothing about psychology bevause they’ve never read an ABA field paper & consider behaviorism a “historical curiosity”
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