Re:I resigned from Twitter
by drjasonharrison on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:45PM
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Please don't use dopamine to explain addictive/repetitive behaviors. It's like blaming your eyes for finding the button to click. It's more complex. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/women-who-stray/20...
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Re:I resigned from Twitter
by sAbakumoff on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:03PM
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OF COURSE it's more complex than this, the human's brain is a very sophisticated machine. But I just read a couple of "brain for dummies" books[1][2], so my knowledge is pretty limited.
[1] - "Behave" by Sapolsky [2] - The Willpower Instinct
From that I recall they explain that the reward system responds to feeling of novelty because it's good for survival, f.e. you can find food or water source in a new location or maybe notice a hostile animals there. So, it's a behaviour caused by evolution. Twitter, Facebook, etc. just exploited it. And they admitted it:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/09/facebook-...