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But we’re not entirely to blame if technology is making us less intelligent. After all, it was designed to captivate us totally. Silicon Valley’s dirtiest design feature – which is everywhere once you spot it – is the infinite scroll, likened to the “bottomless soup bowl” experiment, in which participants will keep mindlessly eating from a soup bowl if it keeps refilling. An online feed that constantly “refills” manipulates the brain’s dopaminergic reward system in a similar way. These powerful dopamine-driven loops of endless “seeking” can become addictive.

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But we’re not entirely to blame if technology is making us less intelligent. After all, it was designed to captivate us totally. Silicon Valley’s dirtiest design feature – which is everywhere once you spot it – is the infinite scroll, likened to the “bottomless soup bowl” experiment, in which participants will keep mindlessly eating from a soup bowl if it keeps refilling. An online feed that constantly “refills” manipulates the brain’s dopaminergic reward system in a similar way. These powerful dopamine-driven loops of endless “seeking” can become addictive.
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Dean Burnett (that brains guy) (garwboy@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 05:28:30 JST Dean Burnett (that brains guy)
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This can do one as well!
That experiment revealed that "People eat slightly more soup than they would if you secretly refill the bowls", not "People quickly become addicted to soup if you refill the bowls, and will keep eating until they resemble a minestrone-filled space hopper". Gah!
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