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The Dopamine Series Part 4: Motivation Is Not a Resource
You don't lack discipline. Your brain learned that effort doesn't pay. Here's how dopamine actually works, and how to retrain the model.
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Quantified self, experiments, optimization, and health tech.
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The Dopamine Series Part 3: The Controller in Your Skull
Three mechanisms to hijack 200 million years of reward circuitry: protect the controller, bridge the gap, reframe the signal.
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The Dopamine Series Part 2: What Elden Ring Teaches About Your Brain
Elden Ring accidentally implements the same reward prediction algorithm that powers AlphaGo. Here's why dying 100 times feels like progress.
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The Dopamine Series Part 1: The Learning Algorithm Hidden in Your Brain
The algorithm that powers AlphaGo and AlphaFold has been running in your brainstem for millions of years. You just didn't know it.
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The Missing Cortex: Why We Need an AI for Our Metabolism
Exploring the Transparency Gap—why we can observe our thoughts but not our biochemistry—and an architecture for an AI that acts as a second cortex for metabolic regulation.
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