[Paul Graham · paulgraham.com](<http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html>)

# The Acceleration of Addictiveness

What hard liquor, cigarettes, heroin, and crack have in common is that they're all more concentrated forms of less addictive predecessors. Most if not all the things we describe as addictive are. And the scary thing is, the process that created them is accelerating.

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