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by BuddhaSource 4666 days ago
>>In the history of the world, gamification has never gotten a single person do anything they didn’t already basically like to do. - Jay Hanlon

This sums up why we use internet.

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That's not really true. Look at "grinding" in MMOs. I don't think people enjoy the process of grinding, just the end result (some virtual coins or whatever). It's really a Pavlovian brain hack.