dopamine detox

Dopamine detox gone too far

Most doomscrollers have heard of the dopamine detox — a total abandonment of easy dopamine hits by purging all social media. For most, this challenge is temporary — like a failed New Year’s resolution. In the tragic case of poor SFU student Matthew Jones, we get the rare consequence of a dopamine detox. This is the story of how this young man accidentally reverse-engineered generative AI . . . and what it cost him.  It started when he stumbled across the concept of the dopamine detox on WikiHow. He felt a burst of inspiration to finally detach from the internet…

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