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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"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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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
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Have become convinced that many people are trying to buy hope with crypto. Given the alternatives I can understand this but price goes up is not a sustainable way to live.
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“The fact that the concept ‘dopamine’ shares a name with a neurotransmitter is imho not that relevant and will over time just turn into an etymological curiosity.”
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I get the feeling that doomer mentality is somehow related
The world is doomed -> meets normal experience -> gets a dose of hope that the world is better
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The world is doomed & I know this -> confirms beliefs -> I am aware, prepared & hence protected from this emotionally
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No one with a brain has hope anymore. The good chemicals will suffice
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