mulling in some half-baked & untested thoughts abt how the tech person’s trend of analyzing & structuring everything in their life in terms of incentives boils down to a rly depressing lack of trust in human self
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thinking everything from dopamine fasting to evopsych to even the popularity of workout classes — for which the argument i hear most isn’t “i do group workouts bc they’re fun”, it’s “i need someone yelling at me to work out and if i pay a membership that’ll force me to go more”
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incentives are useful for systems i think but individuals are supposed to have coherency? slippery slope from using incentives as support tools to letting them take over whatever agency was there before
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if you really cared about something wouldn’t you trust yourself to do what needs to be done
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maybe, but I think allowances need to be made for the fact that people don’t actually understand their own feelings. A lot of it is post hoc rationalization or a jokey self-deprecating thing.
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yeah i get the jokey self deprecating part re: “gotta forced myself to work out” but i feel like i see it enough in other things (obsessive calendaring, gamification trends, formalized goals for human relationships) that i think a good chunk of that sentiment is real
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My fave write up on group fitnesshttps://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/547346/ …
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