Addiction
Compulsive use that continues through the harm it causes — and the argument about whether it is a disease, a choice, or a response to pain.
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsThere's nothing kind or compassionate about letting mentally-ill drug addicts roam the streets like 28 Days Later.
- 1 day earlier
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Elio Struyf quoted
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker
Our readingGetting fast results from AI prompting creates an addictive urge to keep asking for more.
Their wordsPrompting can also be addictive. You get results so fast that you get a sort of rush to do more.
↗The AI chaos beast in your headeliostruyf.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Elon Musk quoted
Founded SpaceX in 2002
Their words“Homeless” is a propaganda word used to describe people on the street who are mentally ill or severely addicted to drugs.
- 5 weeks earlier
- MH
Masud Husain quoted
Professor of Neurology at the University of Oxford
Their wordsAnd the evidence suggests that wanting pursuit of a goal is mediated or modulated at least by dopamine whereas actually the liking the pleasure you might get from an outcome is not that seems to be related to uh opioid neurotransmitters in the brain.
↗How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husainyoutube.com 16th of 24 in this recording
- 3 days earlier
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Anil Dash quoted
Technologist and writer, a blogger since 1999
Their wordsPeople being embarrassed or ashamed while still using the technology does not bother the authoritarian owners of those platforms in the least, as long as they’re profiting off of those ashamed users.
↗Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AIanildash.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Anil Dash quoted
Their wordsIn short, the venture capitalists and CEOs of Silicon Valley have priced the costs of shame into their business plans.
↗Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AIanildash.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 2 days earlier
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Kenneth Reitz quoted
Programmer, photographer and musician
Their wordsThat is the thirst trap: the product increases the rate at which you can turn intention into reality, which increases your appetite for continuation, then meters the continuation. It teaches you to work at a cognitive velocity that the lower plan cannot sustain.
- 2 months earlier
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Tony Fadell quoted
Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple
Their wordsMake sure you're not trying to addict your users. And if anybody is, there's always other jobs, and there's always other better companies. And don't chase the money for tearing apart what it is, the fabric of the society that we built.
↗Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more)youtube.com 22nd of 23 in this recording
- 4 months earlier
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Jon Haidt quoted
Social psychologist at NYU Stern
Their wordsLike any addictive consumer product that routinely exposes users to graphic sex, extreme violence, and anonymous sexual predators, social media in its current form causes a variety of harms to people of all ages. But we allow adults (often defined as age 18) to make decisions that are bad for them.
↗Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kidsafterbabel.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- 4 weeks earlier
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Bryan Johnson quoted
Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint
Their wordsIdentify a version of you that is responsible for self destructive behavior and give them a name
↗Bryan's Protocolprotocol.bryanjohnson.com 7th of 9 in this piece
- 8 weeks earlier
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Ilya Sutskever quoted
Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Their wordsThey have a general sense which is also by the way extremely robust in people like whatever it is the human value function whatever the human value function is with a few exceptions around addiction it's actually very very robust
↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 11th of 28 in this recording
- 2 months earlier
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Norman Ohler quoted
German writer and journalist
Their wordsSo Hitler receives this Dolantin injection, and he gets up, he goes into the meeting room, he dominates the meeting room, he feels great. He decides, you know, in front of everybody, no one is able to… no one overpowers him in that meeting. He was very good in the room. And the troops are split up. Like Leningrad is now a target. This weakens the general thrust towards Moscow. This is probably why they didn't take Moscow.
↗Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA | Lex Fridman Podcast #481youtube.com 13th of 22 in this recording
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Norman Ohler quoted
Their wordsOne thing that changed was that Eukodal was not available anymore, so the drug that Hitler actually had become physically addicted to was suddenly not available anymore. This had to do with the bombardment of the Merck company, the factory in December 1944. British bombers destroyed the production facilities.
↗Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA | Lex Fridman Podcast #481youtube.com 17th of 22 in this recording
- 4 months earlier
- CL
Charles Fain Lehman quoted
Fellow at the Manhattan Institute working on crime
Our readingAfter two decades of the war on drugs, drugs were cheaper and more potent than when it began.
Their wordsAfter two decades of the War on Drugs, in other words, drugs were much cheaper and more potent than they were when the War on Drugs began.
↗What Was The War on Drugs? Part Vthecausalfallacy.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Charles Fain Lehman quoted
Their wordsBut by the available evidence, the War on Drugs was far less successful at reducing use among the “hard core” of users, mostly meaning people addicted to their drug of choice.
↗What Was The War on Drugs? Part Vthecausalfallacy.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
- TH
ThePrimeagen quoted
Michael Paulson, known online as ThePrimeagen
Their wordsYou don't stop a problem by replacing it. And so I didn't have a girlfriend, I didn't have all that. I just realized that I was truly taking away from something from my future wife.
↗ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461youtube.com 4th of 31 in this recording
- 8 months earlier
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Frank Lantz quoted
Game designer and writer, founder of the NYU Game Center
Their wordsThe world is full of gambling games that want to crawl into your limbic system and drain every last ounce of life-force from your soul.
↗Are Games Good?franklantz.substack.com 3rd of 5 in this piece
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Frank Lantz quoted
Their wordsBut I also think that, if you really want to understand games, you should learn how to play these games. Which means learning how to stop playing them. You should learn how to disappear into them, how to let them swallow you whole, and then learn how to extract yourself, safely, on the other side.
↗Are Games Good?franklantz.substack.com 4th of 5 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
- TG
Ted Gioia quoted
Music critic and cultural historian
Their wordsIf you look at the 10 largest companies in the world, half of them are trying to create this addictive relationship to technology.
↗How to Break Free from Dopamine Culturehonest-broker.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
- TG
Ted Gioia quoted
Their wordsThey don’t want to find the next Michelangelo or Mozart. They want to create a world of junkies—because they will be the dealers.
↗The State of the Culture, 2024honest-broker.com 3rd of 6 in this piece
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Ted Gioia quoted
Their wordsThe tech CEOs know this is harmful, but they do it anyway.
↗The State of the Culture, 2024honest-broker.com 5th of 6 in this piece
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Ted Gioia quoted
Their wordsThe more addicts rely on these stimuli, the less pleasure they receive. At a certain point, this cycle creates anhedonia—the complete absence of enjoyment in an experience supposedly pursued for pleasure.
↗The State of the Culture, 2024honest-broker.com 6th of 6 in this piece
- 10 months earlier
- DS
Derek Sivers quoted
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008
Our readingRemoving your own ability to retreat is how you make yourself follow through on a hard change.
Their wordsI forbid myself from anything too tempting or addicting. I keep no cookies in my home. To prevent myself from falling off the wagon, I strap myself to the mast.
↗Why I let go of my U.S. citizenshipsive.rs 1st of 2 in this piece
- 21 months earlier
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Michael Pollan quoted
Author and journalist writing on food
Their wordsMany people (myself included) are surprised to learn that the overwhelming majority of people who take hard drugs do so without becoming addicted.
↗How Should We Do Drugs Now?michaelpollan.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Michael Pollan quoted
Their wordsAddiction may be less a disease than a symptom - of trauma, social disconnection, depression or economic distress.
↗How Should We Do Drugs Now?michaelpollan.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Naval Ravikant quoted
Co-founder of AngelList
Their wordsNow that we’re in an age of abundance, we can easily fall into addiction if we pursue pleasure for its own sake.
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Naval Ravikant quoted
social mediareligionvideo games
Their wordsThe modern struggle is really about individuals—disconnected from their tribe, religion and cultural networks—who are trying to stand up to all these addictions that have been weaponized: alcohol, drugs, pornography, processed foods, news media, Internet, social media and video games.
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Naval Ravikant quoted
Their wordsAddictions let you engage in fake play and fake work.
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Naval Ravikant quoted
Their wordsBreaking addiction is very hard, because you have to break the physical addiction and you also have to change your lifestyle. You have to switch to a lifestyle in which you can be happy without that substance.
- 22 months earlier
- MP
Michael Pollan quoted
Our readingPsilocybin is a remarkably safe drug, with no known lethal dose and no addictive potential.
Their wordsIn some ways, psilocybin is a remarkably safe drug - there is no known lethal dose (something that can't be said for many medicines sold without a prescription) and it is nonaddictive.
↗Not So Fast on Magic Mushroomsmichaelpollan.com 1st of 3 in this piece