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I don't like the comparison at all. Behaviorism has been long discredited in favour of more complex representations of our cognitive process [1].

Please don't treat people around you like experiments.

[1] https://personal.utdallas.edu/~tres/spatial/tolman.pdf

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> Please don't treat people around you like experiments.

Isn't it fitting that the guy who wrote the blog is the CTO of Meta/Facebook, who are quasi experimenting for-profit on people for over 20 years.

Nothing quasi about it, the entirety of the facebook universe is a giant Skinner box

This is the official publication where Facebook researchers and academic collaborators reported the findings of their 2012 News Feed experiment that manipulated emotional content and measured effects on users’ posting behavior.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1320040111

That Behaviorism rejected complex internal states (or "cognitive representations") was and is a bit of a strawman. The point is that the internal states must be defined such that they can be grounded in observable behavior.

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