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Oh, maybe we do disagree; I don't think the "my brain's reward system has been hacked" framing is useless at all when it comes to Twitter. Noticing the structural features of Twitter that make it so addictive to me was useful in reducing my overconsumption of it.
Okay, but: "I don't think the 'my brain's reward system has been hacked' framing is useless at all when it comes to my boyfriend. Noticing the structural features of my boyfriend hat make him so addictive to me was useful in reducing my tendency to tackle-hug him at the door."
Sure, I guess the addictive features of your relationship could also be a useful thing to notice, if you feel like you're overly attached (in a way that's bad for you overall) We just tend to use "hacked" about systems that are more professionally engineered for addiction
if he wore different headgear would it help
Isn't this a criticism of short explanations in general? "hacked" is pointing to a more complex model; as with any short phrase, you can stop thinking when you hear it or let it guide your attention to the features it's highlighting and evaluate the applicability of that frame.
"I hug my boyfriend because I love him", say, is also leaving out a lot of crucial details and may serve to stop further thinking if you think this is a sufficient explanation. But that seems to be inevitably true for all one-sentence explanations of complex phenomena.
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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 understand
