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Once again, Mr. Miller has it backwards

by General Vagueness @, The Vault of Sass, Thursday, May 09, 2013, 16:27 (4215 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Thinking about punishment enhances the now by increasing tension. Thinking about reward devalues the now since you realize the now is only a stepping stone to get what you really want.

ohhhhh
This whole time I thought you were being your pedantic, idealistic, prescriptivist self, but what I quoted, that I get. I still think you're completely wrong in generalizing it to all rewards and all gaming, for reasons that have been talked about plenty, but this is more understandable than "a lot of rewards have negative effects so let's generalize it".


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