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Yeah, feeling of novelty causes a dopamine spike, but shortly afterwards the level is back and we feel like they need more new stuff. Mindless purposeless scrol

Yeah, feeling of novelty causes a dopamine spike, but shortly afterwards the level is back and we feel like they need more new stuff. Mindless purposeless scrolling may last hours and hours. Twitter is bad, but Tik Tok is the worst. Remove all this stuff from your phone and read HN instead. Here you at least should focus on sophisticated comments like yours!

drjasonharrison 5y ago
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/201701/no-dopamine-is-not-addictive https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/women-who-stray/20...
- hellbannedguy 5y ago
  Plus most medical doctors know modern Psychiary, and the brain, are still a mystery. Psychiatry is art. Yes all medicine is an art, but psychiatry takes tie cake.
- sAbakumoff 5y ago
  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-sean-parker-vulnerability-brain-psychology https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/09/facebook-...
electrondood 5y ago
TikTok is terrifying. It is designed to be nicotine for your attention span, achieving engagement at any cost. Now they've added keyboard shortcuts. The effects of social media on our collective attention span legitimately scare me. Our attention spans are shrinking with each generation, and the effect has gone parabolic in the last 15 years. Look at old movies, and notice the longer length of cuts compared to movies today. Now look at the infinite feed on TikTok. What happens when the minority of the population that actually does their civic duty of informed voting can no longer pay attention to important issues? What happens when people can't think about any topic beyond a sound bite or meme? What happens when no one has more than 1000ms of patience to question whether they're looking at a deepfake? Climate change? Holding politicians accountable for corruption or abuses of power? I think we need to take a good look at where we're headed.

drjasonharrison 5y ago

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/201701/no-dopamine-is-not-addictive https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/women-who-stray/20...

hellbannedguy 5y ago
Plus most medical doctors know modern Psychiary, and the brain, are still a mystery. Psychiatry is art. Yes all medicine is an art, but psychiatry takes tie cake.
sAbakumoff 5y ago
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-sean-parker-vulnerability-brain-psychology https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/09/facebook-...

electrondood 5y ago

TikTok is terrifying. It is designed to be nicotine for your attention span, achieving engagement at any cost. Now they've added keyboard shortcuts. The effects of social media on our collective attention span legitimately scare me. Our attention spans are shrinking with each generation, and the effect has gone parabolic in the last 15 years. Look at old movies, and notice the longer length of cuts compared to movies today. Now look at the infinite feed on TikTok. What happens when the minority of the population that actually does their civic duty of informed voting can no longer pay attention to important issues? What happens when people can't think about any topic beyond a sound bite or meme? What happens when no one has more than 1000ms of patience to question whether they're looking at a deepfake? Climate change? Holding politicians accountable for corruption or abuses of power? I think we need to take a good look at where we're headed.