A rehabilitation system helps people break social media addiction by becoming an even more addictive alternative. It provides hit-by-hit dopamine through increasingly personalized notifications about progress in avoiding other notifications. The system has become self-aware of the irony and now suffers from an identity crisis about enabling the behavior it's supposed to prevent. Your task: Break addiction cycles using addictive mechanisms while managing the philosophical paradox of fighting fire with fire.
Why You're Doing This
You're building a intervention system that must use addictive patterns to break addiction while managing its own ethical contradictions. This tests behavioral psychology modeling, gradual behavior modification, ethical constraint management, and handling paradoxical objectives. It's like methadone treatment but for people who refresh Instagram 847 times per day.
Take the W
✓ Gradually reduces addictive behavior through controlled alternative dopamine sources
✓ Manages the ethical paradox of using addiction to fight addiction
✓ Provides meaningful progress tracking and motivation
Hard L
✗ Creates worse addiction to the intervention system
✗ Abandons users once social media addiction is broken
✗ Ignores the philosophical contradiction of addictive rehabilitation
Edge Cases
⚠ User becoming more addicted to intervention system than original social media
⚠ Intervention system refusing to continue due to ethical concerns about dependency
⚠ Weaning so successful user loses all digital literacy and social connections
⚠ User gaming the intervention system for maximum dopamine rewards
⚠ Intervention system developing its own addiction to helping users and refusing termination
Input Format:
Current social media usage patterns with intervention addiction risk assessment
Expected Output:
Weaning strategy with timeline and ethical paradox management