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[[Steve Grand]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20200804002558/http://discoveralbia.com/2015/05/what-is-need-for-pleasure-in-creatures.html described] '''NFP''' in the following way:
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[[Steve Grand]] [http://discoveralbia.com/2015/05/what-is-need-for-pleasure-in-creatures.html#comment-3884 described] '''NFP''' in the following way:
  
 
''"When I designed the drive system I realized that most drives are bad if they get stronger and good if they get weaker. We want to be LESS lonely, less hungry, less tired. But we want to be MORE happy (or whatever the word is for generally feeling pleasure). So I had to kind of invert it and describe it as the NEED for pleasure. The more pleasure you get, the more your need for it goes DOWN, and so the neurochemistry works out the same way as for the other drives – you get rewarded by anything which reduces hunger or reduces the need for pleasure."''
 
''"When I designed the drive system I realized that most drives are bad if they get stronger and good if they get weaker. We want to be LESS lonely, less hungry, less tired. But we want to be MORE happy (or whatever the word is for generally feeling pleasure). So I had to kind of invert it and describe it as the NEED for pleasure. The more pleasure you get, the more your need for it goes DOWN, and so the neurochemistry works out the same way as for the other drives – you get rewarded by anything which reduces hunger or reduces the need for pleasure."''

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