Andrew Huberman· PhD
Um, and we've begun to understand dopamine as a central player in the algorithms that your brain runs.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Um, and we've begun to understand dopamine as a central player in the algorithms that your brain runs.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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Um but I think the um description of what dopamine does as a learning rule is pretty much true.
The algorithms are well understood. What wasn't well understood 30 years ago was the kind of remarkable things those same algorithms can learn.