[hjanssen]

It's very much interesting how gamification tickles the monkey parts of the brains of me and even the smartest people I know. We even know it's "stupid" or "useless" and still strive to make the number go up.

Frankly, thats terrifying, now that I think about it. What a powerful tool.

[contingencies]

First rule of HN club. Don't talk about the gamification. (Ssh... I pressed the triangle for you anyway.)

[lm28469]

Same reason why obese people keep eating junk food and smokers have a hard time stopping, we're still monkeys, if you know which buttons you have to press you can make us do really unproductive/negative things

We're still competing for food, attention, mates, &c. it's just that technology made it so convoluted and "unnatural" that we somehow don't even make the link anymore