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The switch from the age of confronting an empty browser search box - which forced you to identify your own desires - to the age of auto-playing content social media platforms has harmed our psyches: discuss.

Social media that simply serves up Whatever the Algorithim Wants in automatic play-mode is a parasite upon human attention, degrading our own ability to identify what we even actually WANT at any given time: discuss?

Counterpoint: making a game of tuning the algorithm until it only serves things you find strangely satisfying is in itself a strangely satisfying pastime

So what you're saying is skinner box feels better when you build it yourself, like ikea furniture or a gundam kit

So actually yes, we have studies showing that eg you can clicker train yourself even though you are fully aware of what you're doing. Eating a piece of a favorite candy after completing a task (or a step of it) makes you more likely to do the task in the future even though you know what's going on.

I have found that the vast majority of dog training behavior modification advice applicable to high-drive working breeds also works really well on me (and my therapist validated this approach)