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>'You have a need, you use something that satisfies the signal but not the need itself, and so you keep coming back.' Exactly. I'm not sure who coined it, but
by incision 12y ago
>'You have a need, you use something that satisfies the signal but not the need itself, and so you keep coming back.'
Exactly.
I'm not sure who coined it, but I've taken to the term 'infosugar' to describe the knowledge analog of this.
I don't want to take the analogy too far, but I expect there's a whole range of behavior we easily slip into that evidence this same sort of pattern - bad behaviors as the result of an unfulfilled subconscious desire.
For example, I wonder how much the assorted aggressive nastiness you find online is basically a burst valve from sedentary people who really just need to go hit a ball or run hard for an hour?
- Dewie 12y ago> For example, I wonder how much the assorted aggressive nastiness you find online is basically a burst valve from sedentary people who really just need to go hit a ball or run hard for an hour? Physical venting/channelling seems like a very temporary outlet for general misanthropy.
- incision 12y agoI don't follow. It seems to me that anything short of death would be a temporary outlet for 'general misanthropy'.
- Dewie 12y agoI'm saying that people who are really hateful online have issues that are deeper than simply having pent-up aggression/restlessness that can be channelled through some physical activity or sport.