How do you explain the rise and fall of cigarettes?We don't understand enough about people to really manipulate them
How do you explain the rise and fall of cigarettes?We don't understand enough about people to really manipulate them
I do wonder how much of the stuff like this we take as read does actually exist and how much is just us behaving as though it does and that essentially having the same effect.For all the pseudo-scientific nonsense boomers pass around about how they're manipulating us with "dopamine" hits, we actually don't even clearly know how dopamine works or how to game it.
Very simply!How do you explain the rise and fall of cigarettes?
"... Deprogramming simultaneously retro-produced the program, just as witch-trials preceded devil-worship and regressive hypnotherapy preceded false memory syndrome. Yet, once these ‘fictions’ are produced, they function in and as reality. It isn’t that belief in Project Monarch produces the Monarch Program, but rather that such belief produces equivalent effects to those the reality of Project Monarch would produce, including some that are extremely peculiar and counter-intuitive."I do wonder how much of the stuff like this we take as read does actually exist and how much is just us behaving as though it does and that essentially having the same effect.
That a lot of resources went into making people aware they liked tobacco and supplying them with it and a lot of resources went into making them aware of the health risks and pushing them away from it.Very simply!
People love nicotine and the MAOIs in tobacco.
People don't love dying of lung cancer.
When they found out that lung cancer is part and parcel of smoking tobacco, most of them used that long-term idealistic self to quit.
Nowadays, the link is uncoupled by vaping, so lots of people use nicotine again.
What's missing in your mind from this description?
Very simply!
People love nicotine and the MAOIs in tobacco.
People don't love dying of lung cancer.
When they found out that lung cancer is part and parcel of smoking tobacco, most of them used that long-term idealistic self to quit.
Nowadays, the link is uncoupled by vaping, so lots of people use nicotine again.
What's missing in your mind from this description?
You could apply this to the "there is no outside" talk too."... Deprogramming simultaneously retro-produced the program, just as witch-trials preceded devil-worship and regressive hypnotherapy preceded false memory syndrome. Yet, once these ‘fictions’ are produced, they function in and as reality. It isn’t that belief in Project Monarch produces the Monarch Program, but rather that such belief produces equivalent effects to those the reality of Project Monarch would produce, including some that are extremely peculiar and counter-intuitive."
Hyperstition: HAVE YOU BEEN ENJOYING YOURSELF?
hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org
You could apply this to the "there is no outside" talk too.
What is there? And don't say baked beans or nuclear-powered gabber or something.
Is the pro-Twitter self conscious? It doesn't feel as though it is. I think most people have experienced suddenly snapping out of a daze and realising they've been aimlessly browsing the net in almost a trance rather than actively choosing to keep doing it each moment.Maybe there's a better way of thinking about it... I don't love this way either, b/c I'm not sure how to rigorously think about how "multiple selves" works cognitively, but...
There's a self that wants to go on Twitter and a self that wants to go on Twitter less, and their desires are in conflict, and if the self that wants to go on Twitter is more powerful, it wins out.
Typically, the anti-Twitter self is this theoretical, moralistic, idealistic picture of "Who I want to be" and the pro-Twitter self is this more concrete, "I have desires that I wanna fulfill NOW" and while I empathize (actually no I don't) with people who struggle to quit Twitter, there are a bajillion things in this world where you needa strengthen your resolve and make the long-term idealistic self win out, otherwise your life is gonna be this moment-to-moment optimization, where you never get the Big Things you want, rather than a big picture optimization, where you properly prioritize and hold yourself accountable.
Why do you think the idea that there's an outside and an inside persists? What function does it serve, if any?
Who wants the middle classes over-politicised and to what end?
he was on our side sticking up for the neon screams and calling muggs a cunt