https://www.epa.gov/environmental-topics/chemicals-and-toxic...
https://www.epa.gov/fera/dose-response-assessment-assessing-...
How did we build these tables?
Same process will apply to how much dopamine (and whatever else) you can keep giving a kid or a group of people over time without serious consequences
Whether that takes 2 years or 20 years more to tabulate, lots of people will take a hit thanks to their internal reward mechanisms being gamed.
According to me, they have at best been ineffectual, and more commonly made a bad thing worse.
I think/hope we're in a transitional phase of our civilization where we haven't figured out how to handle these new things yet. Over time, institutions will emerge. They always do, right?
If the networks join up, letting people interact, enabling or encouraging hate between each other, there is an incentive for members of each group to report the illegal networks to the authorities to harm “the other lot”.
(This is just an off-the-cuff thought, I’m a long way from understanding sociopolitical dynamics)
It started slightly innocently but at some point it became a product.
Yes water vapor is safe. But additives are poorly regulated/understood.
But people are destroying their lungs faster then cigarettes ever did.
Not sure what that would look like though. Cigarettes have scary labels and enforced age requirements. Maybe social media would have to change the way likes/upvotes/etc work to be less polarizing, in addition to an age limit enforcement?