It's probably a blessing that as a Linux user back in the day, there was no easy way for me to run Eve Online or Everquest or World of Warcraft, as those kinds of games would have destroyed me
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It's probably a blessing that as a Linux user back in the day, there was no easy way for me to run Eve Online or Everquest or World of Warcraft, as those kinds of games would have destroyed me
I also don't keep Doritos in the house for that reason. I will eat 100% of the Doritos on hand.
Would be nice to imagine being a person with better self control, but I'm not. We don't have as much control over our reward pathways as we think, but sometimes we have control over what our reward pathways are exposed to.
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It's probably a blessing that as a Linux user back in the day, there was no easy way for me to run Eve Online or Everquest or World of Warcraft, as those kinds of games would have destroyed me
I also don't keep Doritos in the house for that reason. I will eat 100% of the Doritos on hand.
Would be nice to imagine being a person with better self control, but I'm not. We don't have as much control over our reward pathways as we think, but sometimes we have control over what our reward pathways are exposed to.
Anyway the above post is and is not also about LLMs
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It's probably a blessing that as a Linux user back in the day, there was no easy way for me to run Eve Online or Everquest or World of Warcraft, as those kinds of games would have destroyed me
I also don't keep Doritos in the house for that reason. I will eat 100% of the Doritos on hand.
Would be nice to imagine being a person with better self control, but I'm not. We don't have as much control over our reward pathways as we think, but sometimes we have control over what our reward pathways are exposed to.
@cwebber ah yes, the good old ice cream reward pathway.
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It's probably a blessing that as a Linux user back in the day, there was no easy way for me to run Eve Online or Everquest or World of Warcraft, as those kinds of games would have destroyed me
I also don't keep Doritos in the house for that reason. I will eat 100% of the Doritos on hand.
Would be nice to imagine being a person with better self control, but I'm not. We don't have as much control over our reward pathways as we think, but sometimes we have control over what our reward pathways are exposed to.
@cwebber maybe a little unrelated but that’s also why advertisment should be way way more regulated

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@cwebber maybe a little unrelated but that’s also why advertisment should be way way more regulated

@txo_elurmaluta @cwebber not when there's an entire online industry built on top of it and every company wants to harvest more and more of your data
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@txo_elurmaluta @cwebber not when there's an entire online industry built on top of it and every company wants to harvest more and more of your data
@innocentzero @cwebber sure

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It's probably a blessing that as a Linux user back in the day, there was no easy way for me to run Eve Online or Everquest or World of Warcraft, as those kinds of games would have destroyed me
I also don't keep Doritos in the house for that reason. I will eat 100% of the Doritos on hand.
Would be nice to imagine being a person with better self control, but I'm not. We don't have as much control over our reward pathways as we think, but sometimes we have control over what our reward pathways are exposed to.
@cwebber I can’t keep cookies in the house. I turn blue, fuzzy, and get googly eyes.