[gonzalohm]

One could argue that this is a flaw of evolution. There is a system that gives you a reward after you accomplish something and hence you associate the final result with the reward.

If I offer you a shortcut, your brain is going to take it, easier reward, right?

And yet this has probably been a problem for ages. Nomad hunters probably had a huge dopamine rush after hunting. Then agriculture was invented and for some people getting food was just spending hard earned money at the market. And I don't think they fucked their dopamine system

What I mean by all this is that evolution and our brains will find a way to evolve and change our reward system. We will find other things that feel rewarding

[thejohnconway]

Evolution is not operating at the speed necessary on population to the change of circumstances we have generated over the last 15,000 years. Especially in the modern world, where it is hardly clear that the reproduction rates of the people happiest in it are higher. Probably the opposite is true.

So yes, it is totally possible that we have been fucking it up with respect to our biology for thousands of years. In fact there is a pretty substantial body of work and evidence that hunter-gatherers are happier than than people living the post agricultural/industrial lifestyle.

[vouaobrasil]

> What I mean by all this is that evolution and our brains will find a way to evolve and change our reward system.

I don't see how, because making your brain feel better these days is not tied to survival. There is no differential in survival probability to change the short-term reward system. In fact, the current capitalistic technological system rewards it.