48 Restraining Rewards: People Are Never Satisfied

48 Restraining Rewards: People Are Never Satisfied Reinforcement learning focuses on reward functions, reward what, will get what People are the same, in people's reward function, eating delicious food, watching entertainment programs, scrolling interesting content, dealing with troublesome things, achieving wishes... will all obtain spiritual rewards So if not restrained, people naturally pursue short-term happiness, that is local optimum, long-term happiness, such as sense of achievement, sense of gain always can't get priority Daily immersed in things that can obtain immediate happiness feedback, unable to extricate themselves And what's worse, people are never satisfied, will try every way to get double happiness For example, originally watching dramas vs learning, playing games vs writing code, eating late night snacks vs fitness