thinking about a thing wrote about how (i may be mangling this) prohibitions against sex work in ancient cultures may have been about preventing people from being confused about the true source of production and it's really stuck with me
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probably not super clear. related example: fundamentally what makes something pornography is that it promises your body you will have sex and then breaks that promise. i think modern civilization is built to an uncomfortably large extent on these kinds of broken promises
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been thinking about twitter this way too lately. you can string people along for years on a platform that promises connection and never quiiiiite 100% delivers on that promise
just enough intermittent reinforcement to keep people coming back
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if you actually give people what they want they might not come back, but if you 10-50% give people what they want and continually promise in a bunch of little ways that they'll get more then you can create a customer for life
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i spent a lot of time while i was off twitter playing video games and modern video games are becoming broken-promises-platforms too
new content, new quests, new characters
analyzing it in terms of "dopamine" misses the point: this is *weaponized hope*
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this thing basically:
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gamers be like "ooh samsara just came out with a new update maybe this one will be permanent, satisfying, and/or me"
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it's the same for online dating apps. that's why Hinge markets itself as the app to be deleted. the other apps don't want you to leave, in fact they have incentives to keep you looking 👀
