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gavmoryesterday at 6:57 PM5 repliesview on HN

How does one rat mentor another?


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sonofhansyesterday at 7:18 PM

You can teach a kid to change a tire without saying a word. It’s the same thing. Rats are very smart and very social. Rats that were good at teaching Rathood to their little ones had more that survived.

Put food in a maze and I’m sure rats would teach other rats how to get it. I expect this is similar.

dtsykunovyesterday at 7:02 PM

My guess, first they send them links to confluence wiki.

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thinkingtoiletyesterday at 7:13 PM

Rats are intelligent social mammals. They teach by actions. Imagine training a dog. You have two dogs, one trained and one not. You say "sit" and the trained dog sits and you give it a treat. The non-trained dog will quickly pick up on that.

yzydserdyesterday at 8:55 PM

Human in the loop reinforcement learning

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tedmistonyesterday at 7:21 PM

RatGPT