Thomas<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@ilkyu95" class="u-url mention">@<span>ilkyu95</span></a></span> the illusion of positive feedback can be overwhelming - and, no doubt, lead to reactions <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Skinner" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Skinner</span></a> would have been happy to describe as validating <a href="https://mas.to/tags/behaviorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>behaviorism</span></a> ;-) </p><p>Fortunately, &quot;likes&quot; aren&#39;t really important here on Mastodon (unless we make it so). Meaningful conversations are.</p><p>Maybe as a quip: in a very well known demonstrations of the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OperantConditioningChamber" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OperantConditioningChamber</span></a><br />the operant was a bird</p>