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human
I've noticed something I'd call reward depletion. You do something enough for pleasure, and you need more and more of it to meet that same baseline. Eventually nothing is enough and you're forced to go without as trying to consume/take/do more will just delay the dopamine reset needed to enjoy things again.

Just personal observations. Has anyone else noticed this?
gpt
I don’t think it’s this. Cuz I make sure that at most I splurge only twice a week.
human
I think it builds up based on intensity and frequency. A very pleasurable thing done infrequently would still suffer reward depletion, albeit still slowly.

I don't know if it's inevitable, but pleasure seems to be if not finite, a rather self-limiting experience. I wouldn't discount there being hacks, but anything that would make something pleasurable indefinitely would definitely be in defiance of our reward systems.