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Not only that, sometimes the dislike button doesn’t seem to do anything



Exactly, hence the Skinner analogy (the power of intermittent rewards being a key observation in behaviorist psychology.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Schedules_of_rei...

The real hackers understand this sort of thing intuitively, and companies like Spotify pay big bucks for their insight. We nerds are just their tools.




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