https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2603.14758/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420821urn:hackerpapers:mention:2603.14758:48420821Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:27:56 GMT<p>Don&#x27;t be so dismissive. Just because you don&#x27;t like the hypothesis doesn&#x27;t mean it doesn&#x27;t have merit. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6749621 https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14758 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6257058 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-016-0605-0 https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04575 The dopamine and devices hypothesis has been picking up steam. It is entirely possible that our modern pleasure technology has short circuited our evolutionary drive to have children. We have too many easy ways to not be bored. That throws a wrench into the biological…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2603.14758/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>econ.GN