Sidehacking is the thing to do...
May. 9th, 2004 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twincityhackerI dug out Sidehackers from the tape collection, and it was worth the wait. First I was a tad parinoid that I wasn't going to be able to see it beucause my sister--whoes tapes they really are, or at least all the CC era tapes-- taped over the section until the begining credits of the movie with Star Fugitive.
Yeah, I have somthing like thirty tapes, with two or three episodes on each tape, but hardly any complete episodes. Then between episodes there's this brief bursts of episodes, like there's one where Tom tries to bring Crow down to absolute zero and a mad chugs glue. But the only time I was really upset was when I couldn't find the begining part of "Teenagers From Outer Space." The one where Joel preforms shock thearapy on the 'bots, and they just turn it around on him. And they metion B.F. Skinner! Wrongly, because he worked with operant condtioning and rewards, not with punishment. A closer person would be John B. Watson. He worked with punishment. And screwing up children's psyches.
Speacking of comparisions of behavorists and mst3k chaecters, a closer fit for B. F. Skinner would be Dr. Forrester. Why? Skinner wroteWalden Two, a book about how behavior modification (bemod) could be used to rule a socitey. And society's rulers should bemod as soon as possible to create a utopia so some nutjob doesn't use it to conqure the world. Even the utopia would be ruled by a dicator, but in that society, he could only use his power for good; otherwise no one would follow him.
The only diffrence between the two societies is that one uses the reward system, and the other uses the punishment system. But it has been shown that the reward system lasts longer when the rewards stop coming than the punishment system when the punishments stop comming, even though the reward system takes longer to take effect. (Oddly enough, these sytems were tried out on prisoners and the mentaly insane. Both catagories fit the MADs and the SOL crew, no?)
Of course, the system that lasts the longest would be the sporatic reward system. You only get a reward some of the time, based on some obscure system. Think of slot machines, and you've got the idea.
And to tie it all together: The grapes that the mad doctors used to get Joel to push the butons on the dispay, probably as a baseline for the movies, was operant condionting with rewards!
Now who says that television isn't a education experience?! *colapses*
Yeah, I have somthing like thirty tapes, with two or three episodes on each tape, but hardly any complete episodes. Then between episodes there's this brief bursts of episodes, like there's one where Tom tries to bring Crow down to absolute zero and a mad chugs glue. But the only time I was really upset was when I couldn't find the begining part of "Teenagers From Outer Space." The one where Joel preforms shock thearapy on the 'bots, and they just turn it around on him. And they metion B.F. Skinner! Wrongly, because he worked with operant condtioning and rewards, not with punishment. A closer person would be John B. Watson. He worked with punishment. And screwing up children's psyches.
Speacking of comparisions of behavorists and mst3k chaecters, a closer fit for B. F. Skinner would be Dr. Forrester. Why? Skinner wroteWalden Two, a book about how behavior modification (bemod) could be used to rule a socitey. And society's rulers should bemod as soon as possible to create a utopia so some nutjob doesn't use it to conqure the world. Even the utopia would be ruled by a dicator, but in that society, he could only use his power for good; otherwise no one would follow him.
The only diffrence between the two societies is that one uses the reward system, and the other uses the punishment system. But it has been shown that the reward system lasts longer when the rewards stop coming than the punishment system when the punishments stop comming, even though the reward system takes longer to take effect. (Oddly enough, these sytems were tried out on prisoners and the mentaly insane. Both catagories fit the MADs and the SOL crew, no?)
Of course, the system that lasts the longest would be the sporatic reward system. You only get a reward some of the time, based on some obscure system. Think of slot machines, and you've got the idea.
And to tie it all together: The grapes that the mad doctors used to get Joel to push the butons on the dispay, probably as a baseline for the movies, was operant condionting with rewards!
Now who says that television isn't a education experience?! *colapses*
