90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (2009)

Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by superkuh on Sunday December 27, 2020 @10:46PM (#25556501)

It's not essential to your argument, but the whole "dopamine drip" thing is not helping. Using ancient disproven 1970s neuroscience tropes here in such a broadly incorrect way just makes me dismiss your potentially legit reasoning.

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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by cosmojg on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:06PM (#25556585)

I took it as a metaphor. The argument makes perfect sense in that light.

Engage with the argument rather than its presentation, and you might just move the conversation forward.

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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by superkuh on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:13PM (#25556611)

People who try to call things addictive without evidence do real damage. Governments then take up this "addictive" label and make things illegal. Screens are not addictive. That word has a real meaning. Op in this context tried to justify the use of addiction by some folktale neuroscience from ages past.

I agreed with him that maybe there's something to not always looking at screens. But I strongly disgree with you. I was attacking a dangerous part of the argument.

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