AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
One central topic of the book is addiction and hence agency The title refers to a video that causes anybody who watches it to lose interest in anything besides the video itself.
Longing sounds OK, but it too easily turns into despair when you realize that the object of longing is unattainable. Buddhism is not big on longing, labeling it craving or Taṇhā and a source of suffering, which it certainly can be. addiction is also a relation.
Humans are subject to inconsistent judgements (eg in the classic Trolley problem). Human desires are often at war with each other (eg in cases of akrasia or addiction). George Ainslie
author and Beat icon. Heroin addict and wrote a lot about the process of addiction. Obsessed with the idea of mind control, conspiracy theory and other agency related topics.
A futuristic hypothetical form of addiction, in the form of some kind of neural technology. That is, it does what opiates do, but more faster and more thoroughly. And, even more permanently, it's an even harder addiction to break so very few people do.