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Aug 2, 2020

i wanted to write a tweet like this for awhile but i reflected on it a bit more and realized that "dopamine" actually has a pretty comfortable ecological niche as referring to a particular kind of gambling-like experience, independent of any underlying neurochemistry twitter.com/kaburicrab/sta

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which is why i wrote this thread instead:

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· Jul 29, 2020

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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"dopamine = hope" thing is actually a somewhat indirect translation into punchy emotional language of the reward prediction error hypothesis. i couldn't find a similarly compelling description of serotonin and as far as i know there isn't one scholarpedia.org/article/Reward

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I see ADHD described as a dopamine deficiency and low in hope is a pretty good description of me right now

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Aug 2, 2020

Also antidepressants giving you serotonin to feel good isn't accurate, but the extra serotonin does promote neuron growth which is a way to escape from depression Same with exercise