> When I stopped playing dota, civ took it's place, then reddit, then tiktok, etc These are all still examples of things hyper-optimized to have addictive feed

> When I stopped playing dota, civ took it's place, then reddit, then tiktok, etc These are all still examples of things hyper-optimized to have addictive feedback loops. > My point is, it's not the one game, it's the entire internet. Fair point, but the author is most strongly disagreeing with the "human nature" claim of laziness, and everything you've described so far strikes me as an external influence coopting human instinct. Kind of like how cheesecake and other hyperprocessed foods coopt our instinct to really like eating fat and sugar, which from an evolutionary standpoint was a very good instinct actually for the sake of survival until extremely recently. Should morbidly obese people lose weight for the sake of their own health? Yes. Should we shame them for being obese when healthy food is hard to come by and extremely bad food is cheap and easy to find? No. I understand how that might feel like arguing semantics when the end-result is still that you feel like it's hard to get control over your life and addictions, but the difference between blaming oneself and seeing that this is an external influence that one shouldn't hate oneself for is a very significant one.