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#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics
Lex Fridman Podcast
Addiction and Delay Discounting
The thing that makes addiction is something called delayed discounting. It's the idea that delaying a good access to a good or a reward comes with a certain decrement to its value. And we can study this at the individual level of, you know, would you rather have $9 today or $10 tomorrow? So it's all about comparing to the other choices you're making in your life. If it you evaluate it as a much higher reward than anything else that becomes an addiction.
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