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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by pawelmurias on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:42PM (#19394088)
I worked in mobile gaming and would never work in porn (unless it was like filtering or prosecuting creators). A coworker hard a good point to say what the people who are addicted to mobile games would be addicted/spend money on if they didn't play. It's possible they would be buying meth/booze with it.
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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by YaxelPerez on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:49PM (#19394161)
We don't hand children meth so that they behave, but we do with mobile games.
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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by 1000units on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:03PM (#19394273)
In fact this is almost exactly what happens with many children being prescribed Adderall.
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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by crankylinuxuser on Thursday March 14, 2019 @09:04PM (#19395507)
To counteract your bullshit...

If someone has ADHD, adderall slows them down so they can concentrate. It reduces mind-fog from too much stimulus.

If you don't have ADHD, its like a super cup of coffee, but in pill form.

My doctor was trying to figure out my cognitive issue. And for a time, I was on adderall. It was pretty easy to tell that I didn't have ADHD, since I started getting upper'd. Felt nice, don't get me wrong. But I'll stick with coffee.

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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by zkomp on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:34AM (#19396858)
More interesting question: How do we know regular drug users are not self medicating.
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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by TomMarius on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:47AM (#19396906)
They in fact frequently are. There are huge communities dedicated to that on the Internet. BTW a lot of the previously illegal and unthinkable treatments these people used have just been legalised in the EU, using MDMA etc.
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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by JohnFen on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:44PM (#19404110)
Indeed. And although I wouldn't recommend the self-medicating route, it's hard to deny that there are some people who get much better results doing that than getting "official" medical help.
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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by TomMarius on Friday March 15, 2019 @07:13PM (#19405202)
Professionals can be found even though its illegal. I wouldn't recommend self-medication either.
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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by JohnFen on Friday March 15, 2019 @06:38PM (#19404969)
> A coworker hard a good point to say what the people who are addicted to mobile games would be addicted/spend money on if they didn't play.

That is nothing like a good point at all. It sounds more like rationalizing questionable activity.

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