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FBL24 - Anna Lembke: Dopamine & Digital Addiction

The Feedback Loop by Singularity

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Dopemin and the Addiction to Social Media

We get pleasure out of making human connections, and it's highly adapted for us. But what the internet has done as essentially drugified that experience, made it more potent,. It just goes right to the reward piece without all the work or ambiguity. If you don't like something that's happening in a chat room, or someone says, you know, to you or about you, you just go to another one. You just, like, decamp. And then, and we know that we can. So im so again, that sort of,  the fundamentals of what makes something addictive is that, um, it's highly potent, it's m highly available, there's novelty

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