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Too many bad takes built on reductive ideas about why people do what they do, especially online — less, I think, because they have useful explanatory power, and more because they allow people to skip entirely the layer containing desires they don’t endorse or fully understandhttps://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1092064394920349697 …
“This has hacked my brain’s reward system” is a path around thinking about what you’re doing *at all.* It is a science-y sounding replacement for “witches did it.”
Reductionism has got to go. What an overly constraining view it is, too - so many true explanations are off the table!
"there exists a description of my behavior at a bio-chemical level" acting as an explanation for behavior of an individual. The individual doesn't exist at the bio-chemical level!
We don't blame people for addictions (for good reasons) therefore people try to expand the concept to cover things they don't wish to be blamed for.
There's always abuse.
I hadn’t previously realized just how well this particular refrain fits into larger theme of discomfort with unmediated info streams, and also demand for protection from one’s own lack of willpower.
Removal of personal agency is such a growing trend across all problems involving politics and technology these days
Yet there seems to be a spectrum from sitting alone in a dark room and heroin (or is it fentanyl now?)
Yes, but the assumption that “an optimization process running on billions of brains to get them to come back and spend more time” doesn’t result in a better product — indeed, a worse one! — is *really* impressive spin
EvoPsych made me buy that dress!
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