Reward System
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
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2 statements about Reward System, every show
LaPointe: 'That's not my job' reflects the brain's transactional reward system
“So when you hear people say that's not my job, that's actually the reward system speaking, saying I get rewarded for the things in this list. And this thing that you're talking about is not on my reward list. And I therefore am not interested in it.”
Bostrom: Human reward systems respond to improvement rather than absolute well-being
“We are designed in such a way that our reward system motivates us to produce more effort. At whatever level, like, no matter how good our situation is, we are designed to always try to want to make it better, and so we only get reward when things improve, rath…”