<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">A while back someone said that the AI playing chess would learn from its mistake, and never make that one again. Fooled me once.......  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">So Take a look at humans: I learned very quickly when I started teaching that students at all levels were repeating their mistakes. So often I would caution students about it and write it on their essay exams.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">How successful was I ? Some - the better students, of course - the rich get richer.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">College students average about 107 IQ. Half a standard deviation is significant.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">How many college students are poor at changing, I dunno. One third? One half? All of them to some extent? I would guess a majority of people below 100 IQ would be rather poor.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Translation: repeating mistakes and not changing is a form of conservatism. The body and mind are conservative - keep what you got till it ain't workin' no mo.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">If I have learned nothing from Quora but one thing, it is this: people have a hard time changing anything. I get questions all the time about how to form constructive and healthy habits. How much of the self-help industry is devoted to changing and building new habits? If they were that successful there wouldn't be so many books and talks and seminars and videos etc. on self-help. People need help with self-help, which I am sure you have noticed. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">So if you could design future people would you change the ease at which we can change? People's heads are apparently hard, though I have no direct data.   bill w</div></div>