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No substance could ever match? More powerful than hunger? I strongly challenge that.
by haolez 5y ago
No substance could ever match? More powerful than hunger? I strongly challenge that.
- ramesh31 5y ago>No substance could ever match? If you plot the area under the curve of addictive behavior engaged in over a lifetime, absolutely. People can quit substance addictions. You know that your addiction is harming you and actively destroying your life while you are engaged in it. Those feelings eventually lead most people to quit if they don't die. But social addiction is different. It feels like you're actually doing something useful and good, while it rots away your agency and sense of self. You become a mindless scroller whose tastes, preferences, ideologies, and overall cultural milieu become entirely mediated through engagement algorithms without you ever being aware of it.
- zepto 5y agoIt’s a pretty reasonable hypothesis. Social drives are innate and are likely at least as powerful the drive for food, and may be prioritized higher.
- wuliwong 5y agoI would think a strong challenge would contain _some_ rebuttal?
- speedybird 5y agoWhen people get hungry enough, they become willing to eat even their friends and family.
- Barrin92 5y agoHaving spent a fair amount of time in internet cafes in my youth I can tell you certainly I have seen my fair share of people who have neglected sleep as well as sustenance and some fairly other fundamental drives to consume digital media for at times days without pause.
- haolez 5y agoOh, I get it now. I remember that some years ago I saw some news about a Korean kid that died from playing a game for three days in a row, without sleeping.