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Posted by igmn 19 hours ago

Dopamine Fracking(igerman.cc)
735 points | 374 commentspage 4
sharpshadow 4 hours ago|
The conclusion acknowledges information compression, media hygiene and awareness. Solid points which most online surfers lack of.
afh1 12 hours ago||
Lost me on false but popular claims on fracking on the first paragraph. If you don't even take the time to research the main topic of your "metaphor", can't expect much depthness from the Discord philosopher.
poppadom1982 12 hours ago|
Which ones?
sailfast 8 hours ago||
The article doesn’t make it quite clear but dopamine fracking (such as described) requires both you and the companies to work.

The companies are trying to make something you’ll want, and you want it! But if you allow fracking on your “property” then you will be left with poisoned aquifers and empty of substance.

Matticus_Rex 4 hours ago|
> But if you allow fracking on your “property” then you will be left with poisoned aquifers and empty of substance.

So it's analogous to the mythical bogeyman version of what fracking was hyped up to be, and not how it actually turned out.

euazOn 13 hours ago||
Reminds me of Slavoj Zizek’s classic example of synthetic sex (look it up), or his grievances about today’s academia: paper written by ChatGPT, peer reviewed by ChatGPT, and consumed by users as a synthesis from ChatGPT.
simonbarker87 13 hours ago||
How refreshing to read something not written by an LLM, unless they promoted it extensively with their own writing style first and I’ve been tricked but this felt much nicer to read than a lot of what I’ve read recently
lostlogin 12 hours ago|
Are you sure it wasn’t?

The vast number of commas wouldn’t fit the typical robot style though, but the — count might.

simonbarker87 11 hours ago||
Yeh the style read like a human, but you’re right, some dashes, annoyingly I have historically used a lot of - in my writing so now I need to stop using them
sleepycat801 12 hours ago||
The term as used reminds me of opium addiction in the 19th century, and how it brought down entire countries.

I find, particularly when working in software, that I want to spend very little of my free time online, as though the novelty has worn off. The diversion aspect of social media is particularly irritating. It's like the Gruen transfer, a loss of focus and reference designed into many shopping malls.

kerorin 11 hours ago||
Fun fact: Schizophrenia is explained by the dopamine hypothesis, or more accurately, the aberrant salience hypothesis. When dopamine signaling in certain neurons becomes dysregulated, the brain's attention system goes awry. Blocking the D2 dopamine receptor with medication actually reduces real hallucinations, the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
JohnBooty 9 hours ago||
I’m maybe going to blow some fucking minds here — learning this certainly blew my own mind —- BUT

I have a friend who works in the “fragrance and flavor” industry. (Which is actually pretty fascinating, mostly in the sense that there are only about three major players, who kind of decide how everything in the world looks and tastes)

Annnnnnnnnnnd one of the things fake strawberry fragrance is user for is… strawberries. Like, actual supermarket strawberries. Some produce companies put fake scents onto real fruit so they, you know, smell more fruity.

Fuck this world.

_fuchs 16 hours ago||
Are there good recourses on common pattern/ techniques used for “dopamine fracking“?

We all know a hand full and dome are briefly touched on (emotional triggers). But a list of things to look out for would be nice.

herodoturtle 12 hours ago|
Great article (and phrase).

Thank you.

> Becoming aware of this concept has made it easier to navigate the world. And it's becoming easier and easier for me to simply stop a video and close a tab when I sense that it's just trying to give me a hit of dopamine.

I’ve just gone ahead and placed a little sticky note at the bottom of my monitor that says “dopamine fracking?”

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