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Putting aside that they are not optimized but just happen to have an effect, would you claim that these are the only things that affect happiness/its relevant c
by anyfoo 11mo ago
Putting aside that they are not optimized but just happen to have an effect, would you claim that these are the only things that affect happiness/its relevant chemicals?
- koakuma-chan 11mo agoI would claim all other things are far less effective, to the point where they have little to no effect.
- anyfoo 11mo agoI'm sorry, but I don't think that makes sense, and that it's pretty obvious that it doesn't. I don't have experience with cocaine, but as a Bavarian I made plenty of experience with alcohol. I've never been addicted, but I had my fair share of Oktoberfest and beer garden visits. And yet you don't see my optimizing my life around it. In fact, nowadays I have a beer every few months if even, simply because most of my hobbies don't work well with alcohol. As for cocaine: As I said, no experience, but it appears to me that even very wealthy people who probably consume it also still do other things in life, despite not having to for income etc.
- koakuma-chan 11mo agoIn my experience that is the case. I haven't gone to the gym for a few weeks now, because after years of doing it, I no longer feel anything. I go to Walmart every day and buy Apple juice and Kit Kat, and that does very little, incomparable to taking pleasure-optimized drugs.
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- darkwater 11mo agoYou just get used to chemicals as well and need more and more, and stronger ones. Alcoholics are not happy when drinking, they are miserable if they are not drinking. That's a completely different world.