January 08, 2026 at 08:00 PM
Are LLMs building a dopamine addiction to creating? It feels better than the dopamine addiction of passively consuming. One produces exhuberance about what’s possible, the other a depression of comparison towards what feels unatainable.
The activities are different. Would an alien species observe that we’ve traded endless scrolling for continual prompting?
Children like seeing how their actions have an impact in the physical world. Now that we live lives on screens, we like seeing how our words have an impact on the constructed reality.