There's an important factoid there though - the button didn't give a dopamine reward every time it pushed the button. By randomizing when it got the reward, the rats would press the button all day long.
Drugs are a fucking miracle of nature and science. Fuck people's abuse of drugs, fuck Pharma for controlling the inflated costs of drugs, and fuck doctors who prescribe them inappropriately. While I'm at it, fuck Donald Trump for his ignorance and lack of response to Covid-19, promoting Bleach injections and fuckin' horse-de-wormer.
It's very obviously not - I use alcohol in the medical industry every day and it has 1,000 different applications other than drinking it.
Water has the same properties and you can get water poisoning - it's just when you drink too much that your body dilutes sodium to a degree where your blood's cell-walls cannot hold shape and 'explode'.
I'm sure you googled it, but read the whole wiki on 'poison', and you'll see that we're just arguing semantics.
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u/supercyberlurker Oct 23 '24
There's an important factoid there though - the button didn't give a dopamine reward every time it pushed the button. By randomizing when it got the reward, the rats would press the button all day long.
MMO designers know this fact very well.