"Please explain everything to me from scratch so I can summarily dismiss anything you say."
Very few people know what dopaminergic means. It might not be a real word.
“Is not dissimilar from” is a stock phrase used in an academia and by people trying to sound very smart.
The poster included just enough technobabble and stock phrasing to imply they are a specialist. But specialists know when speaking to non-specialists you should avoid technical language and stock phrasing.
So it really just seems the poster was signaling “I am very smart and possibly have a degree in something related and a current on research.”
When I read that the top comment thought banning social media was clearly necessary I was flabbergasted. I read the comment multiple times looking for a compelling argument. I read the article multiple times looking for a compelling argument too. I'm still struggling on this.
I would really like to read a concise logical argument for why we should ban social media.
He's got a number of articles if you Google his name, and he's also appeared in a few podcasts (eg Lex Fridman's).
Dopaminergic literally means "related to dopamine". It's the first Google result.
And how is the word "dissimilar" academic technobabble?
Let's have good-faith discussions in future as I think this is a really interesting topic :)
It is a real word though.