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"content": "B.F. Skinner's book "Walden Two"<br/><br/>Widely characterized as a "novel of ideas" it supposedly details a community based on "operand conditioning", which Skinner's science of behavior pioneered. <br/>Overall, there was not enough detail put into the concepts themselves and much time was spent on dialogue between the founder of this community and a naysayer. "It is over, I have already portrayed myself as the gigachad"<br/>The arguments they have are largely uninteresting to me.<br/>All in all, the novel reads more like a promotional piece for communism because the villagers share everything and abolished personal possessions to a large extent. What this has to do with behavioralism is never explained. <br/>Much time is spent on discussing their system of labor credits, which are allocated dynamically, so uninteresting or hard work pays more, ensuring it gets done. For some reason, this evaluation is done by a central planning committee, even though this is just what a free market does anyway. You can tell that Skinner was no economist.<br/><br/>Interesting aspects include communes using some sort of "intermediate machines" instead of going back to primitive ways of manufacture in order to stay competitive with the outside world, explicitly training children to avoid or overcome frustrating situations, and communal child rearing done such that it re-enables men and women to start families early.<br/><br/>The example I found most striking is having children come home from exhausting play or work and presenting them with a hot meal, which they must learn to not eat immediately. The difficulty is ramped up slowly to teach them moderation and impulse control. Training my stupid ass like that would have been very helpful.<br/><br/>All in all, it's worth a read/listen. The book is free on <a href=\"http://archive.org\" rel=\"noopener\">archive.org</a>, as is the audio version which the author read himself.",
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