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Your unsubstantiated assertion is rejected. There is nothing that fits that label here. There are things that people like to say that everyone else is in a happy death spiral about but they are too powerfully skeptical to be one of the gullible crowd. This is useless cheap signalling that is a net detriment.
-3 M&Ms for all instances of vague self-reinforcing negativity.
Very well I'll be explicit, I simply wanted to avoid a flame war. Most obvious example:
Now give me my M&Ms back.
That isn't a Happy Death Spiral. It is a disgraceful mindkiller, sure. But it isn't remotely happy, isn't encouraged by universal reward and absence of criticism. It certainly isn't treated with or caused by the kind of positive feedback Luke's post advocates.
You can have one back - but being fundamentally confused about what it is you are trying to criticize is only a weak mitigating factor.
Do you remember the online dating profile optimization thread? LessWrong went in Vladimir_M's words "healing crystal equivalent". That thread was a happy death spiral.
Also if you recall the critics in the relationship threads are getting tired and frustrated and just aren't showing up any more, someone even wrote out a full comment to that effect! Evaporative cooling dude. Sure we haven't had a relationship thread since Luke's part I., but its only a matter of time before someone brings it up and the critics won't be there any more.
I only bother because I'm a Charlie Sheen.
Can you expand on why you thought it amounted to a happy death spiral? I didn't get that impression. (I am very likely a biased source in this regard because I started using OkCupid essentially because one of the LW threads on it suggested that it was worth trying, and it has worked quite well for me, so I may be missing something obvious.)
Does he have to vomit the M&M's back up?
I really hope that's not the procedure.
Incidentally, chewing M&Ms and then spitting them out is a moderately effective way to wean yourself off of chocolate cravings.
Any suggestions for sugar specifically? I like chocolate and can get it in low-sweet, high-theobromine form, but shaking off sugar cravings would do me a world of good.
From my incomplete understanding of taste psychology, sugar is one of the instinctual taste preferences, whereas things like chocolate are learned taste preferences that are possible to unlearn. I've found that sugar/salt/fat cravings have been useful signals about the quality of my diet, and so would recommend taking a hard look at your diet before trying to alter those signals. (They could be mistuned, but I don't have any advice on how to correctly tune them.)