Life Metaphor: Under Stress, Our Brains Overfit to Old Habits
Ghost_Pilot_MD · x · 2026-08-18
A post draws a parallel between neural networks and human brains: under stress, we tend to overfit to old patterns, habits, and inefficient loops because they are the training data we have reinforced the most. The author suggests applying "RLHF" (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) to life, implying we should adjust our behaviors based on positive feedback rather than sticking to stress-induced loops.
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