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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ha ha i spoke as if a relatively small group of professionals and academics is more capable of making a coordinated change to its habits of language use than the general public, i crack me up
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That would be less confusing.
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I mean, I definitely learned 'negative reinforcement == punishment' in college from the actual course books.
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Ooh hey I didn't think of those words, good idea
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it would let one hang onto the useful concept of valence, positive and negative (or run-toward and run-away-from)
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