The biggest problem with dopamine is that its design lags considerably behind the current version of the game, amounting to a million-year-old evolutionary algorithm coping with a new world. But the problem is that the algorithm is almost impossible to rewrite. The essence of using dopamine is to recognize more details about yourself, and thus partially change the design of the game's goals. I can't change the bamboo poles or the height/width of the gates, but I can stretch the poles forward ...

The biggest problem with dopamine is that its design lags considerably behind the current version of the game, amounting to a million-year-old evolutionary algorithm coping with a new world. But the problem is that the algorithm is almost impossible to rewrite. The essence of using dopamine is to recognize more details about yourself, and thus partially change the design of the game's goals. I can't change the bamboo poles or the height/width of the gates, but I can stretch the poles forward ...