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Might be silly to take "my reward system got hacked" as a useful, literal explanation, but it's useful to have a phrase to describe the tendency some technologies have to put people in situations where they experience internal conflicts (i.e., the phrase has explanatory power).
Descriptive =/= explanatory. This is precisely the error I'm trying to highlight. You could go down a layer further: "I interacted with the product, and atoms in my head were reconfigured. That's why it's so addictive." If you think that explains anything useful, you've lost me.
So I agree there's no explanatory power that statement. If you interpret "a thing hacked my reward system" as conveying "a thing caused my brain to do the thing it did," I agree that also has no explanatory power.
However, I think what most people are trying to convey with "a thing hacked my reward system" is the idea that a thing led them to carry out an action they had internal conflict about. I don't think that's a completely useless thing to convey.
No, but neurons respond to stimuli in a certain way. When neuroscientists find that conditioning happens faster if the stimulus/response is separated by 12 seconds, or something like that, and then a company designs their product to take advantage of the system, it gets blurry
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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
