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by ben_w 1020 days ago
Endless A/B testing will climb up some peak in the landscape of human psychology; that you and I are on a different peak may help a bit, but there are ways to find other peaks and money to be made in the attempt.

(I'm apparently on peak "Idle Game", and thus benefited greatly from the end of Flash browser games freeing me from that pointless waste of time).

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Oh my goodness how could I have forgotten that decade of my life until you mentioned it? Oh, right, yeah, that's how.

Edit: I think my comment was lost in translation. What I meant was, "yes, this was such a phenomenon, and I experienced it too, and I marvel at the amount of time that I wasted in Idle games, and sympathize with others who are also lost in these Skinner boxes"