Free curiosity does more for learning than frightening compulsion

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• A slot machine triggers the brain’s learning and curiosity pathways while teaching nothing, and that one-way exchange is what makes it contemptuous of the player. RKRaph Koster3 Jul 2013curiosity
• AI tooling has not compressed the gap between great and average engineers: it is still two or three times, and for the same reasons as before — curiosity and appetite for the bleeding edge. TPThuan Pham1 Apr 2026curiosity
• American transit agencies stay expensive out of incuriosity: the practices that would fix them are written in languages nobody in the room reads. ALAlon Levy12 Jan 2023curiosity
• Argue like you are right and listen like you are wrong, with the humility to know what you do not know. AGAdam Grant9 Jun 2026curiosity
• Creativity consists of curiosity combined with the foresight to imagine what a new combination of ideas could produce. MTMing Thein15 Aug 2020curiosity

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