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The Blue-Minimizing Robot

Feb 22, 2018 by Scott Alexander

A sequence on models of the human mind, drawing on psychology and neuroscience to discuss motivation, learning and behaviour.

315The Blue-Minimizing Robot
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73Basics of Animal Reinforcement
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56Basics of Human Reinforcement
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65Time and Effort Discounting
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60Wanting vs. Liking Revisited
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99Prospect Theory: A Framework for Understanding Cognitive Biases
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85Physical and Mental Behavior
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45Voluntary Behavior, Conscious Thoughts
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64Trivers on Self-Deception
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77To what degree do we have goals?
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100The limits of introspection
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85Ego syntonic thoughts and values
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160Approving reinforces low-effort behaviors
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59Connectionism: Modeling the mind with neural networks
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132Secrets of the eliminati
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53Tendencies in reflective equilibrium
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