The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
it's pretty clear, based on the data surrounding addiction, that anytime there are big increases in dopamine without a lot of effort required to generate that dopamine, like turning on pornography on the internet versus asking someone out on a date, going out on a date.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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You watch pornography, you get a dopamine response. Your brain then says, oh, I want that again. And you keep seeking more novel, more aggressive, different types of pornography to get that same response.
what pornography essentially does is it hijacks these reward Pathways with very potent images that are made all the more reinforcing by the fact that um the individual can control them in the moment so with very little work that is required in real relationship ship they can now just go right to the money so to speak or the reinforcing aspect