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by tdaltonc 9y ago
Disclosure - CEO of Dopamine That's the exact same way I feel. There is definitely a end game here where everyone has more autonomy and dignity, and that's the one we're fighting for.
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CEO of Dopamine here. We make cars with both gas pedals and break pedals because sometimes you want to go faster and sometime you want to go slower. There are some behaviors that you want to see yourself doing more frequently, and others th
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by tdaltonc 9y ago
Dopamine Labs | Venice Beach CA | full-stack web-dev | FULL TIME | ONSITE We use AI and Neuroscience to make technology that changes people. In this future we’re building, our environment is alive and responsive to who we want to become, an
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by tdaltonc 9y ago
Yep! Shoot us an email and we'd be happy to explain it in more detail.
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I would prefer to say that they're 'symmetrical.' It should be easy for a person to add and remove habits from their life. The Dopamine API makes app more effective at creating habits so that users can add them. Space makes
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Glad you like it! There's a third benefit too. Putting a lag between the action and the reward rewires the brains wanting system. That itch at the back of your brain or the impulse to reach for your phone at the briefest hint of bored
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If you block an app, you still want it, but your wanting is frustrated. Our goal with Space is to actually rewire your wanting system. If you use space, the impulse to open the app should decrease. For us, real freedom is to kill the wantin
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I'm a professional attention engineer. After getting my PhD in NeuroEconomic I built two tools that I think are going to be really important in the coming attention wars. I strongly agree with the author about the importance of an indi
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I built two tings: One makes apps more addictive, the other makes them less addictive. The one that makes apps more addictive is https://useDopamine.com The one for making thing less addictive is http://youjustneedspa
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If anyone here is feeling like they spend too much time on Social Media, I recently made Space a set of apps to help with that. http://youjustneedspace.com
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Why? I don't see and necessary relationship between those two things.
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That is an interesting idea. I lot of biomedical research is very repudiative. There are people working on automating it. https://emeraldcloudlab.com/ It would be hard to know if the man on the line is doing it right, but y
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The obvious questions is "who's going to do the confirmation work?" I think that masters/bachelor students should be able to handle that work. A new grant mechanism for masters/bachelor training grants that fund rep
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Dopamine Labs slings tools to boost and reduce app addiction(techcrunch.com)
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We're going through the appeal process right now. We've gathered lists of web content block apps, workflow style apps, and icon skinning apps. I'm not familiar with that last category of apps (notify you until you reopen the
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If you're looking to use Facebook less (but can't bring yourself to quit) I just launched a tool for that! http://youjustneedspace.com The iOS version is a web app because Apple rejected our native app. They said any a
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I love the idea of a "free market in education" in theory but I do think that we have enough data to know that '"poor people will not be educated" by such a system.' Every implementation of a freer market for e
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Swift and Darwin
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We're looking in to ways to solve this problem too. You're right that that's way easier on android, but we've found some tricks in iOS that might work too.
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Ya! That is one of our lines of reasoning almost verbatim; specifically those two apps.
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Let's say you want to use facebook less. Space creates a space-launcher icon that you put where you used to keep facebook on your home screen. Now you click the space-launcher instead of clicking facebook. The space-launcher loads a 2-
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As you notice a new app becoming the problem app, you can also add another space-launcher to replace it. Most people we've talked to find that there are about 3-5 apps on thier phone with 'problem potential.'
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They also interpret our app as "modifying the function of other apps." We're working through the appeals process and I'm hoping that they'll see the light the way you have!
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I recently made an app to help with this. http://youjustneedspace.com We had to launch it as a web app because Apple said that "any app that encourages you to use your phone less is not appropriate for the app store" w
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I've read the book and the title still makes no sense to me. I was expecting a book about how to 'rectify'(in the electrical engineering sense) chaos in business. It seems like "Jobs That Need Doing" or "Produc
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Matplotlib 2.0 Released(github.com)
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Politicians cannot bring back old-fashioned factory jobs(economist.com)
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We built an app that doesn't do exactly but, but it's similar. Instead of focusing on external restrictions, it reprograms your mind to make you less distractible. http://YouJustNeedSpace.com
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What would you call it?
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Breaking Digital Addiction(medium.com)
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