#IntermittentReinforcement

The Cosmic Selfthe_cosmic_self
2025-06-07

🎯 Intermittent Reinforcement:
The Most Addictive Game You Didn’t Know You Were Playing
They’re hot, then cold. Sweet, then distant.
And your brain? Hooked like a lab rat on a slot machine.
Welcome to the psychology of mixed signals—where inconsistency feels like chemistry.
Let’s break it down, beautifully.
youtube.com/shorts/JXkjhhKe1oI








trndgtr.comtrndgtr
2025-05-08

Survival Instincts Hijacked by Slots - Jillian Michaels on JRE

Earthshine --> movedearthshine@hackers.town
2023-02-24

I suspect that #intermittentReinforcement is one of the most disastrously exploitable revelations in #neurosciene . It's an eminently reliable formula for cultivating #addiction. We now have entire industries dedicated to exploiting it to the dire detriment of vast swaths of the population.

And nothing is done about it, because the victims are blamed for their own exploitation rather than their enthusiastic exploiters.

Fuck anyone who defends #exploitation like this.

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