Unpredictable Reward, Predictable Happiness
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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The Mysterious Companion at Love
With women, this pattern has always confused me. i never know what advice to give people who find themselves falling into it. What if for some reason you can't do companion at love? I wonder if you would end up like my patient, addicted to someone who had a 50 50 chance of being adoring or terrible at any given time. Just because half the time you get a positive prediction error out of it, and you're able to feel anything at all. This also reminds me of the bane of relationship counsellors everywhere. The wife, yes, it's usually the wife who complains that the husband never gets her flowers. Then the husband gets her flowers, and the wife
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