everywhere you hear yourself or someone else refer to "dopamine" (e.g. "gotta make good tweets for that sweet sweet dopamine" or whatever), try substituting "hope"
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QC@QiaochuYuan• about 5 years ago
Replying to @QiaochuYuan
"hedonic treadmilling" is when you've done the thing enough that you start to lose hope, because your system starts to understand that the thing is not actually satisfying
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QC@QiaochuYuan• about 5 years ago
Replying to @QiaochuYuan
experiences that are constructed around "dopamine" - slot machines, gacha games, twitter scrolling, etc. - involve a kind of repeated creation of false hope, a million tiny promises that are never quite kept
