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When the desired behavior is performed, a sound is played. When the test subjects reach deep sleep, that same sound is played repeatedly. Subjects were then more likely to perform the desired behavior.
The article, "Unlearning implicit social biases during sleep" appears in the journal Science; an abstract and full report are available.
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It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny ...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday May 30 2015, @12:19AM
Racism is in the structure of institutions and the assumptions and bias of the culture.
You may "reprogram" overt prejudice - but it still won't be safe for a black man to make minor infractions of the law in USA, without risking being killed by cops.
And all the clucking by privileged ignorant people about "black family", etc.
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @12:56AM
So if it can't be changed, then it can't be solved and therefore is not a problem. No sense dwelling on it anymore than dwelling on how unfair gravity is to tall people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @01:21AM
> So if it can't be changed,
Because cultural institutions are set in stone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @02:57AM
According to Cornelius there, it won't make a difference and thus is irrelevant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @03:37AM
No, gravity is unfair to short people who can't reach high objects as easily. It also gives them a disadvantage in basketball.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @11:55AM
How fucking stupid. Since when is "has a solution" part of the definition of "problem"?
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday May 30 2015, @04:00PM
Since we've had so many solutions in search of a problem.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @06:26PM
Total red herring. Something that isn't immediately useful after its creation (a "solution in search of a problem") won't necessarily always be useless, and such things still don't redefine "problem" to include the phrase "has a solution" in any form.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @06:31PM
They're typically called problems because we don't know the solution, and if you don't know the solution, you can't say for sure that there is one. "Does P=NP?" and similar problems would no longer be problems under such a redefinition, the only "problems" would be ones for which the solution was already known, which would make them not problems at all, and real problems would no longer be addressed because they wouldn't be "problems" until their solution was known, but nobody would look for solutions since they wouldn't be problems.