i stay on my bullshit about adjacent concepts but the last couple days i’ve been really thinking about status self-perception management in re dopamine pump maintenance and as a lens it has absolutely stupid amounts of explanatory power
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Replying to @chaosprime
been thinking about this for a few days now and I’m concerned you may be dangerously close to discovering how to wirehead without any particular technology
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oh, that's pretty straightforward, unfortunately it's called schizophrenia
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hmm you’d think schizophrenics would be happier if so
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“wireheaed for status” sounds more like pure mania to me, which can in fact feel really good. the sticky feedback loops in less affectively grounded psychosis are (ime) not so legible as that
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schizophrenia i'm pretty sure i can see how to induce cognitively, if i could figure out how to make hypomania or mania happen that way i'd be rolling around in my swimming pools full of money, not fucking around on twitter
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