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If I were to identify anything with the hedonistic treadmill it wouldn't be integrals.

• avmich 5y ago
  I think, Heinlein in "Have spacesuit - will travel" mentions something to the tune of "math is worse than peanuts". Integrals could be holding attention quite well - just check Youtube channels with explanations of everything, or MOOCs which have rather robust audience.
  • whatshisface 5y ago
    It's not so much that there's no aspect of math that is pleasing, as it is that whatever it is, it's exempt from the hedonistic treadmill.
    • GDC7 5y ago
      It's not math. It's you solving, winning and conquering math problems, and beating other people to the solution.
      • datameta 5y ago
        Precisely. The more one learns the more unsolved problems one discovers, each more brain-stimulating than the last!
• vvoaterr 5y ago
  you mean, hedonic treadmill
  • whatshisface 5y ago
    If there's one thing I'd associate with the hedonic treadmill, it wouldn't be remembering the difference between hedonic and hedonistic.