stop using the word 'dopamine' if you don't know biochemistry/pharmacology because i guarantee you don't know how it works
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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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the top-level tweet here is a good example of what i called "command" in a recent thread. basically pessimistic about this sort of thing. people use "dopamine" for a reason - it refers to real phenomenology they don't have a better word for
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1. “command” - tell people to do the right thing and they’ll do the right thing. this might work on impressionable young people, or people who are desperate, but i am pessimistic about it overall. if commands were enough we’d be done by now
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you are of course completely correct
altho its worth noting almost nothing i post on this account is a serious attempt to persuade anyone
i'm just spewing my thoughts out
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fwiw if that's the case it doesn't have to be worded as a command - i personally get itchy around tweets (and wirting in general) worded as commands and if it was just a thought it could be reworded as just a thought without much effort
although idk i guess i could parse it as more like venting instead, communication hard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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yeah, it probably wouldn't take much effort
but i'm not sure i want to turn down the shill-intensity
i'll think about it
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this is an excellent framing, and I have endeavored to position my thoughts as perhaps worthy of consideration, perhaps after seeing you suggest this some weeks ago!
bookmarking for when I inevitably attempt to articulate my tweeter metagame.
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