The Importance of Choosing for All Similar Algorithms

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When you're making a decision, your choice is choosing for all sort of sufficiently similar algorithms to what you're running. And when it seems right to use the clicker training, it's sort of like, if I want to have a trusting relationship, would this work? If what I were doing is also, they have some simulation of what I'm doing and what I care about and they're shared. Right. You're deciding on behalf of whether you want to be the party right now, but also on the behalf of how Will will think about you going to parties in the future. Mm-hmm.

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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