Dopamine Fracking
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Dopamine Fracking
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#3He's right - that phrase evokes what he means better than many alternatives.
But this feels like an article where you get all the useful info in the title. The rest is just a rant about the modern internet being bad for your brain.
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#4"movies becoming too Marvel"
I dunno, I love hating modern thing as much as the next guy, but this is just people being hyper sensitive. Your average 80s action comedy quips the same as any Marvel film.
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#5I like the idea of the term, but would want capture these:
1. Refinement, where things are made super-concentrated and pure
2. Supernormal stimuli, where the effect becomes unnaturally intense
3. How easy it becomes to consume the result
Something like 'dopamine super-refinement'.
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#6Humanity was fracking dopamine from art by first painting on cave walls, then oil on canvas, and eventually we got cinematography and video games. Author sounds like a luddite. Feel free to paint on cave walls. Nothing's happening to real strawberries either.
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#7This seems in the same ballpark as the book Attensity!, which coined the term human fracking.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/18/how-can-we-def...
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#8Humanity was fracking dopamine from art by first painting on cave walls, then oil on canvas, and eventually we got cinematography and video games. Author sounds like a luddite. Feel free to paint on cave walls. Nothing's happening to real strawberries either.
“Grog are you in there dopamine fracking again?”
“It’s not what it looks like! Gawd, just leave me alone mom!”
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#9I like the idea of the term, but would want capture these: 1. Refinement, where things are made super-concentrated and pure 2. Supernormal stimuli, where the effect becomes unnaturally intense 3. How easy it becomes to consume the result Something like 'dopamine super-refinement'.
digital mdma
synthetic, pure, overly stimulating, taps into base mechanics of joy creation, prone to abuse but on the same time you still want it and tell yourself that you can control it. and sometimes you really do.
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#10Damn, that's a good way to describe it.