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rain_iwakuratoday at 2:07 AM1 replyview on HN

have you had actually negative interactions like that? they sting for years, even after hundreds of mild-to-positive ones. the brain focuses on risk-minimization and not reward-maximization.


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calcifertoday at 9:26 AM

"The" brain, or just yours? Mine certainly doesn't obsess over a bad interaction "even after hundreds of mild-to-positive ones."

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