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Skinnerian principles have achieved far more reliable, replicable, engineering level control over behavior than Freudian, Chomskian, or any other psychological framework. Aside from Pavlovian conditioning, show me another approach with comparable predictive power.
Are people sleeping on the Rams?
No. 1 offense in the NFL.
No. 1 defense in the NFL.
No. 2 passing attack in the NFL.
A 2-2 record doesn’t tell the whole story.
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I’d much rather the “meat” be grown from cells than into full grown bodies btw. However, if things like this get people to eat less animals, I’d take the win. Is it creepy, sure but it would be worth it.
the ultimate solution is through technology
we engineer what has been called a bodyoid: brainless animal bodies that provide as much meat as we desire without harming any sentient beings
this would transform medicine - the same platform would allow us to grow organs on demand, eliminate transplant waiting lists, and produce perfectly matched tissues for each patient
experimental therapies could be tested on full biological systems without involving conscious animals, regenerative medicine would accelerate as entire replacement tissues become manufacturable
in the same way that agriculture turned food from a scarce resource into an abundant one, engineered bodyoids would turn biological material into infrastructure - meat without slaughter, organs without donors, and medical research without sentient suffering
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When doing therapy I honestly don't care about the patient's particular genetic makeup or diagnosis or assessment results or case conceptualization or family history or any type of their personal history or anything other than what they are saying or not saying or how they're saying something to me in that very particular moment.
Just heard a bit of a 2023 Psych episode by
@paulbloomatyale and @peez. There were a lot of misconceptions about Skinner’s work, within the first few minutes, that continue through today. The big one that stands out is the assumption that he “cut out belief, desires, memory, and reasoning” and got “rid of mental talk” in the analysis of complex psychological problems. In reality he preferred to view these as verbs (believing, desiring, remembering, and reasoning) rather than nouns. As a radical behaviorist, he accepted that we engage in private events (covert behavior, like thinking). He simply understood that said events were controlled by much of the same environmental stimuli that control our overt behavior. His big qualm with psychologists was their tendency to use hypothetical structures (e.g., “ego”) as explanatory variables separate from environmental histories.
With just a small amount of research, the hosts, one of whom wrote a chapter on behaviorism and both of whom teach it, would have found that in Verbal Behavior, Skinner addresses these topics.
His contemporaries also engaged with complex psychological phenomena in far more nuanced ways than the simplified caricature often presented.
As a behaviorist, I would hesitate to write or teach about a discipline I had not researched carefully, and I would be cautious about using a public platform to characterize it inaccurately.
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Sloppy autism pseudoscience is sadly still prevalent in medical journals and here's the latest example. Don't believe everything you read in the @nejm. #autismprevalence jillescher.substack.com/p/ar…
I find it fascinating that the baby eating cabal of “elite” pedos sends emails like gen Z sends text messages. Maybe this will get them to capitalize the first word in a sentence. 🤷🏻♂️
BREAKING: New Image that Epstein sent himself confirms that in 2015, Epstein went to dinner with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
Why the hell was he invited to dinner with these three men, being that he basically plead guilty to being a p-do in 2008?
Why wasn't he ostracized from society after his plea deal?
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I’m sorry. If I see a Republican professor, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified
Extinction is a hella of a thing
New evidence on the effect of cell phone bans in schools just dropped.
"Enforcement of cellphone bans in schools led to a significant increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year, potentially suggesting a new steady state after an initial adjustment period."
"We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban after that initial adjustment period."
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New evidence on the effect of cell phone bans in schools just dropped.
"Enforcement of cellphone bans in schools led to a significant increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year, potentially suggesting a new steady state after an initial adjustment period."
"We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban after that initial adjustment period."