the word 'tiny' is inherently cute, please tell me my brain has tiny things in it still
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"In reliable environments, waiting to eat a second marshmallow is likely to be beneficial. However, in environments where rewards are uncertain, as when experimenters are unreliable, eating the single marshmallow now may be beneficial (Kidd, Palmeri, & Aslin, 2013)."
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"Thus, impulsivity can be understood as an adaptive response to the contingencies present in an unstable environment, rather than a moral failure in which animalistic drives overwhelm human rationality."


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TBH my gloss on this is that the view refuted here is not well-developed enough to be contradicted by the paper. Like, "the pfc is a later part of the brain" is KINDA true, which is what is generally conveyed?
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The arguments they made were not that strong "We have a tiny lizard" is a shorthand model we use for things, especially externalizing parts of yourselves to avoid responsibility I'd be game to stop using that shorthand, but not bc this paper was especially convincing
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