SilasBarta comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 24 October 2009 08:23:02PM 5 points [-]

The non-masochist also said:

You can be trained to get a dopamine release during a certain kind of pain.

I don't know if you were joking, but masochists only enjoy a very narrow kind of pain. It's a misconception that masochists enjoy all, or even many kinds of pain.