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Personality Basins

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sgt101 ◴[] No.42204086[source]
>Your personality is formed by a process conceptually similar to RLHF. You are first born with a set of traits in a given environment. After this, you perform many interactions with your environment. If an interaction goes well, you’re likely to do it more often, and if it goes poorly, you’ll probably do less of it.

first off 0 evidence presented, second off what about the kids that grew up stealing food in concentration camps or due to abusive parents. Do they grow up to be liars and thieves? Nope. What about all the kids that get nothing but positive vibes and turn into total arseholes...

I gave up reading immediately - just dumb.

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1. jw1224 ◴[] No.42204151[source]
> Do they grow up to be liars and thieves?

I think you’ve completely misunderstood what this article goes on to say.

> I gave up reading immediately - just dumb

There’s your problem then.