Ross Otto

Ah yes a simplifying assumption , nailed it

get that to the internet archive my man

I’m hearing the curb theme

this man loves trains

you sure you don't secretly live here

Very Cool! Steve Fleming mentioned this study at his talk here last week

ah i see....we did originally report at a bunch of correlations between (model-free) indices of learning phase behavior and between-phase transfer (and they do relate strongly). but an anonymous referee killed them....definitely would be good to chat down the line

another way of saying this is our task setting might be too simplistic to be able to identify fancier forms of generalization (beyond the simple generalization in RL we considered...)

that is cool, I need to look at this! I think the the FS utility function already does a sort of generalization (e.g. it will discount utility according it's 'envy' parameter) across different levels of unfairness but maybe I misunderstood the question?

Advantageous and disadvantageous inequality aversion can be taught through learning of others’ preferences Like disadvantageous inequity aversion, advantageous inequity aversion can be learned by observing another’s fairness preferences.

People tend to be OK with unfair resource distributions when they stand to gain at another's expense. Can we teach people--via observational learning--to punish advantageous inequity?
Collaboration with Shen Zhang, @orielf.bsky.social, and Seb Hétu, out today:
elifesciences.org/articles/102...

thanks bro.

if you are starting a sentence expressing disbelief with the interjection 'Bro' in a work email context what is the preferred punctuation?
Bro: ...
Bro, ...
or
Bro;...

used to bus/bike to get around in LA in the aughts, it sort of worked. But now there are way more light rail type options

Don’t even get this guy started on imaginary numbers !

one time our exalted premier walked past me and a colleague speaking loudly in english (as i do) and grinned like a cheshire cat at us

That feeling when a pedant says they are being pedantic in that moment

Turkish crescent - Wikipedia

i learn something every day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish...

haha my take home message was the opposite, don't just do something because you can

Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... nice piece nonetheless by @benjaminriley.bsky.social !

Is “neuroscience” the more rigorous-sounding stand-in term for “doing psychology”

do you live here now bro

Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly? A widespread observation is that people avoid mentally effortful courses of action, and much recent work examining cognitive effort has explained subjective effort evaluation – and, consequently, pref...

New pontification piece with @awestbrook.bsky.social and Jean Daunizeau, just out in TICS:
Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly?
(or why does it hurt to think)

never written a review paper before in my life, that was a new and unusual experience

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OK

you better turn this around in a week

now give it an IAT

'in this house...'

How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making - npj Science of Learning npj Science of Learning - How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making

do classic decoy effects take place in real-world shopping decisions?

wine purchase records in a massive grocery dataset says: yes

new work with (former) student Sean Devine, @anyaskatova.bsky.social , James Goulding, and John Harvey

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(sorry for the titular pun)

'dude that was a huge rip'

ah you must mean a team of smarties