Are you [classically] conditioning yourself to surf 2p2?

[Howard Treesong]

I took a survey a few years back about internet addiction. Although the survey was clearly biased in favor of finding addiction, it sparked a family joke about asking one another if we're addicted to the internet. Mrs. T has wondered, with reason, about my obsession with 2p2.

I was actually tempted to fire off an email to the IT firewall gurus at my company, asking them to clear 2p2 past the antigambling firewall. But that move is sufficiently -EV from a career perspective that rationality prevailed.

But yes, I think I'm addicted to 2p2. Part of it is that it attracts sympatico people from all over: I find the jabs and humor (sup bro, JA/PA obsession, gogogogo!, dramabombs, do you see why?, beedogs, and Dids' life tilt) and a hundred other traditions to be amusing in a random but often perceptive way. Plus, it's a great resource for collecting random bits of knowledge and generating ideas.

That's all just a rationalization, of course. I'm deeply, tragically addicted.