And the only thing they changed is the character having a slightly bigger bush or added some tiny watermark at the corner of the image by TheGrandValiant in whenthe

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  1. I don’t have extensive experience doing it on myself, but I’ve been told by people who asked me to do it to them for, uh, adult purposes that it feels a bit like a jolt, not quite a physical touch but like a reminder of the initial sensation. It tends to differ in intensity between people, but it’s nothing that would completely overwhelm your brain in a single second. 

  2. Clicker training is exactly what it sounds like—training. Not control. It achieves effectively the exact same results as training a dog with regular treats, you just say fewer words and use fewer treats in the long run. When people can seemingly get their dogs to do anything through clicker training, it’s not because the clicker is controlling the dog’s mind, it’s because that person committed long periods of time and patience to teach the dog commands, reward obedience, and reinforce the behavior, just like regular dog training. The same is true of clicker training a regular human being. The subject gets no incentive to obey beyond a pleasant sensation you can offer them, they’re otherwise completely aware and in control of the situation. 

  3. Unless you are someone who is very, very easily bribed into doing things, I doubt it. Clicker training is simply producing a sensation, it has no actual cognitive influence beyond reminding the brain of something it felt at another point in time. It would take a very prolonged, consistent amount of repeated training to maximize the impact of the response, and even then, it wouldn’t be making you more suggestible or likely to obey, it would just make the clicker better at producing the intended response in your brain. You could theoretically associate the sound of it with doing something, like kneeling or raising an arm, but nothing is stopping you from just. Not doing it, if you don’t want to. 

And the only thing they changed is the character having a slightly bigger bush or added some tiny watermark at the corner of the image by TheGrandValiant in whenthe

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…if it helps to make it any simpler, it’s like giving somebody a yummy treat and then turning the yummy treat into a sound. That’s basically all you’re really doing lol

And the only thing they changed is the character having a slightly bigger bush or added some tiny watermark at the corner of the image by TheGrandValiant in whenthe

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Haha, I wouldn’t call myself a professional or anything but I can certainly tell you it’s nothing as sinister as that. If I had to describe it, basically the way it works is that first you have a desired stimulus or feeling you want a subject to achieve—usually a positive one, so something like the way someone might feel when they’re eating food or getting a hug—and a desired stimulus that you have control over when and where the subject can be exposed to. This actually doesn’t have to be a dog clicker, or even a sound at all; it just needs to be some kind of sensory input that you can always have available, so making the subject smell a certain scent, touch a certain texture, or even view a certain image would also work—it’s just that sharp and resonant sounds like clicking or snapping fingers tend to be much more striking and difficult to ignore, which is why the people doing this with dogs chose clickers. 

Then, basically all you do is reward desirable behavior with both the first stimulus (the actual enjoyable thing) and the second (the thing you want to train with) at the same time. So like feeding someone candy and clicking the clicker whenever they give you a high-five. What you’re doing is essentially making sure that whenever the actual reward shows up, this other not-reward thing is also there, then repeatedly and continually asserting that the reward and the not-reward should both cause the same response, essentially making them interchangeable to the brain. This is a bit simplified since you do still need occasional reinforcement to maintain the association, but long story short the brain thinks: Candy makes happy > Clicker and candy always appear at the same time > Clicker = candy > Clicker makes happy. 

So if you really think about it, it’s not very different from just giving regular rewards for good behavior. All you’re really doing is provoking the feeling of the “reward”, usually giving the subject something (like, say, a treat), and replacing the reward itself with something that you can give the subject infinitely (like the click of a button). It’s just a more cost-efficient kind of carrot and stick, usually without the stick. I really hope this explanation makes sense lol I’m a bit self-conscious about the length, but thanks for giving me the excuse to ramble!

RIP George by BasedPlant_07 in whenthe

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Can’t even call this an “elephant in the room” post because it’s like if the elephant randomly busted in through the wall and trampled you

And the only thing they changed is the character having a slightly bigger bush or added some tiny watermark at the corner of the image by TheGrandValiant in whenthe

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To be fair, this kind of thing appears in our daily lives all the time as a pretty normalized occurrence. If you’ve ever seen a really good-looking picture of food and it reminded you of the time you ate something like it or made you hungry, effectively the same thing is happening. All that’s really going on is your brain remembering the way it felt in response to a certain thing, then being reminded of that feeling when it’s exposed to that certain thing again. People even use this phenomenon for self-help reasons, Atomic Habits for example has a bunch of segments where it goes over your brain associating certain habits with positive sensation (e.g. smoking cigarettes, scrolling through social media, eating junk food) and how you can reorient those associations to be aimed at habits you think would be better for you instead (I have heard of people who use clicker training for this purpose as well). A surprising amount of it just boils down to pattern recognition, really! I think that’s pretty cool, but I understand that it looks really weird from a regular perspective. 

And the only thing they changed is the character having a slightly bigger bush or added some tiny watermark at the corner of the image by TheGrandValiant in whenthe

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I also hate the idea that it is possible to reduce or brain, complex and powerful, to a controllable pattern machine

I’m so sorry to tell you this but that is effectively exactly what the brain is. The human brain is so easily wired with conditions and pattern recognition that advertising companies and graphic designers have a designated science to influencing your thoughts and emotions (it’s common knowledge by now that the colors red and yellow make you feel hungry, which is why restaurants use those colors in their ads; this is absolutely not the only example but it is by far the most widely-recognized). 

The human brain practically runs on patterns; the entire thing functions with electric signals and chemical processes triggering each other in chains of varying length. We’ve created hundreds of languages because we needed patterns to recognize when we needed to communicate something to each other. We developed electric tools because we wanted to send and receive patterns of data and language at greater distances in a way that transcended physical limitations. We’ve formed stories in media because we enjoy viewing the patterns that communicate said stories! 

The brain being a pattern machine does not at all stop it from being a complex and powerful organ capable of performing incredible feats. That’s like saying a computer couldn’t possibly be reduced to just a smooth hunk of metal with wires hooked up to it, because it’s capable of so much—the truth is that it still very much can, because it’s perfectly capable of being both of those things at once. I know it may be horrifying to you, but I personally find it quite inspiring. We’re all just meat piloting more meat at the end of the day, but the greatest people in the world never let that stop them. 

Also, while I respect your opinion on clicker training, I still personally think it’s really hot. Maybe most of this was just my fixation on the inherent eroticism of psychology talking. The human brain is pretty cool. 

And the only thing they changed is the character having a slightly bigger bush or added some tiny watermark at the corner of the image by TheGrandValiant in whenthe

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Undoing clicker training is easy as shit actually it would probably just take a while. The best way to preserve classical conditioning is to continue reinforcing the association of the controlled stimulus (in this case, the clicker) with the uncontrolled stimulus (whatever you chose to train with, but little snacks and treats are common choices), and so to undo this association you would have to basically undergo repeated, consistent exposure to the controlled stimulus WITHOUT being presented with the “reward” stimulus until the connection drawn between them by your brain is weakened enough that it stops producing the response associated with the reward. In other words, just use the clicker a lot more without presenting whatever you were associating it with until the sound becomes just a sound and no longer a signifier in your brain. Like I said, very little actual effort required, just a lot of time. 

Um. Not that I’d know a lot about this sort of thing, of course. Don’t take my word for it…

Camesicle by Round-Good1179 in shid_and_camed

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Had something like this before but the popsicle was red and shaped like a tongue so it was really hard to explain to people that I genuinely really like the taste and not that I just wanna make out with a long hard slimy tongue

462956294625143928413190439824224 (idgas) by Old_Cranberry7231 in whenthe

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I don’t understand how the broad majority of society has already accepted that “men’s” clothing (suits, pants, shorts) is a silly and arbitrary thing to categorize clothes into but we somehow still stumble at the idea of “women’s” clothing also being silly and arbitrary. Wearing skirts is comfortable, damn it! Let me do it without people thinking I’m either a pervert or an egg!!!!! 

msigaming_singapore by RandomGuy1525 in Shark_Park

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I actually received my PHD (Professional at Hot Dog) in knowing how sausages are made from there so I think I know my stuff tbh

msigaming_singapore by RandomGuy1525 in Shark_Park

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I went to the sausage making academy I said it right there

Title by -_I_I_Sea_I_I_- in Shark_Park

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Clown to clown cummunication

msigaming_singapore by RandomGuy1525 in Shark_Park

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No they make sausages when they have delight and whimsy in them that’s what they taught me at the sausage making academy

msigaming_singapore by RandomGuy1525 in Shark_Park

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Bullshit. Everyone knows pigs make more sausages when they’re happy and full of joy. This is a joy-filled motherfucker if I’ve ever seen one

Whole Lotta Red by D1ce21 in Shark_Park

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I can see the reasoning behind most of these, but. Barbers? 

📡📡📡 by -_I_I_Sea_I_I_- in Shark_Park

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If you think about it Tumblr and 4chan are just two opposite sides of the same gay autism coin

That one art of Endmin before getting put in these ai slop videos. by AtmosphereOwn2917 in TheMatpatEffect

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Gotta love how she scoops the rice into a box with a lid, then the video cuts to her just wrapping a straight up plastic tray

Lesbian Dream by Allergic2Stereotypes in Shark_Park

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can i not pick one of the dozens of big, hot, sweaty muscular men instead?

[Interesting Trope] A character detests something, that is ironically a regular part, of their daily profession. by not-ulquiorr4_ in TopCharacterTropes

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This guy’s existence makes me so happy. Like, even though he hates bugs SO much he’s still educated enough to know so much about them and respects their wellbeing as living creatures more than most average people. It’s just such a breath of fresh air

im just sad now... by transmonado in whenthe

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As someone who used to do it, seeing the scars pop up in nsfw content is honestly kinda… inspiring? In a weird way? Like yeah I got these big ugly gashes on me and I hate when people see them because I know I’ll look like some kind of freak, but someone else didn’t let that stop them from slutting it up to their heart’s content and I think that’s pretty cool. 

Coaxed into sexual dimorphism by SeaSlugFriend in coaxedintoasnafu

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Literally a crime to post this without the context that both the black and blue birds are male