So people had this drive to use tokens, and once they experienced the release from using the tokens they went into a refractory period where their reasoning is no longer being overridden by the need to use tokens? And later I guess they'll start to feel more and more of a need to use tokens and this will repeat?

Or is it just a throwaway phrase that makes no sense?

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pixelready a day ago | parent [-]

We’ll see if the cycle holds true for tokens or LLMs specifically, but for sure there is a larger “new sexy tech” cycle with a strongly emotional output===outcomes metrics irrationality phase to it.

	▲	ltbarcly3 a day ago \| parent [-]
		It may well be that tokenmaxxing does not make sense. I don't think people were tokenmaxxing in some kind of compulsive urge to pursue a release of pent up tokens which were making them token horny, followed by post-token-usage clarity as the release of pent up tokens returns them to a baseline mental state. The analogy doesn't make sense.