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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that's well put! the worst part is if you get too used to doing this it might not even occur to you that it could be any other way
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Are you suggesting that there isn't also an effect whereby humans adapt to "actually satisfying" (WTM) things, and they become less satsifying?
I would guess it is both.
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I remember reading that there were a few things that were immune to the hedonic treadmill
Socializing and exercising were on the list. Now if only I could remember where I read it 😂😂😂
(will update you in the off chance I do remember it)