[HN Gopher] The Reinforcing Nature of Toil (2023)
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       The Reinforcing Nature of Toil (2023)
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2024-09-13 05:56 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | drewcoo wrote:
       | Repetition is reinforcement. Toil involves repetition.
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       | This is an article on independently "discovering" what education
       | and psychology had already known.
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       | I guess it's novel in that it's not someone rediscovering
       | principles of computer science.
        
       | gwern wrote:
       | 'Total quality management' covers many of the same thoughts.
       | Here's a good write up on exactly this topic, the self-
       | reinforcing nature of inefficient work, I ran into a few days
       | ago: "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never
       | Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement"
       | https://gwern.net/doc/economics/2001-repenning.pdf , Repenning &
       | Sterman 2001.
        
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