Is this what you're referring to?
https://cursus.edu/en/11927/motivation-weve-got-it-all-wrong
Very interesting stuff!
@DrewStephenson @Huntn00 That said, I still believe people are reward-motivated. It just doesn't always come from external sources like paychecks. Reward is the subjective manifestation of dopamine. (Very fascinating stuff... There are direct neural equivalents to the "reward function" used in reinforcement learning algorithms.)
My personal research into ML is a clear example. I've been working on this kindof stuff since I was 12, long before I got paid to do it. But if people want me to use my skills for their company, rather than pursuing my own goals, there needs to be pay involved. Pay is how they coopt my goal-driven behavior to fall in line with their own when I am not otherwise meaningfully invested in what they are doing.
@hosford42 @DrewStephenson@mastodon.social Do you have a nice place to live? Material conveniences? Ability to travel to desired locations? As long we rely on a $ currency standard, or maintain a capitalist system those would be manifestations of payment in $ or maybe credits in the future. If we can transform to a different system, there could be other options for rewards
@Huntn00 @DrewStephenson Add people into the mix and the situation gets even hairier.
@Huntn00 @DrewStephenson I've considered the possibility, but I'd be hesitant to make such a foundational change without a lot of research and testing to support it. You learn very quickly in the field of reinforcement learning (and other optimization algorithms) that it's *very* easy to mess up a reward function, with no obvious sign that there are flaws until it's too late and the whole system is completely off the rails.