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Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Summertime Rolls
#JanesAddiction
https://campbudcassettes.bandcamp.com/track/summertime-rolls-janes-addiction
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ziWygUNToqsrm3yNOD6SZ
@esoriano@social.linux.pizza“Cocaine doesn’t make you a business genius — it just makes you think you’re a business genius. Same for AI.”
Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro! – Pivot to AI https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generativ…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThese pieces are much harsher than Fred’s, much more in the LLM-bashing camp, but feel relevant here:
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/
Fred’s point is that a bad interaction model creates hidden work, then humans do that work and “the machine claims the praise.” These other two pieces make the point that this phenomenon of giving the machine credit for unrecognized human work is age-old, taps into some deep trapdoors in human cognition.
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@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaTitle: Why You Can't Stop Scrolling
Topics: #Addiction #InternetAddiction #DoomScrolling
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe Other Side Of Addiction: Stories From The Family Empowerment Program
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-other-side-of-addiction-stories-from-the-family-empowerment-program/…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Big Money and High Cost of the US Military's On-Base Slot Machines (Molly Longman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/us-military-on-base-slot-machines-gambling-addiction/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p124#a250804p124
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Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Jane Says (live)
#JanesAddiction
https://djchrisdiablo.bandcamp.com/track/82bpm-janes-addiction-jane-says-dj-dhris-diablo-edit-vocals
https://open.spotify.com/track/1atCEBZJgOcoajj0sWzn1x
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaTitle: Social Media is Making us Dumber
Topics: #SocialMedia #SocialMediaAddiction #Addiction
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Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Just Because
#JanesAddiction
https://janesaddictionlive.bandcamp.com/track/just-because
https://open.spotify.com/track/3k6L0H08zSY5yRDgqI8fqx
@levi@social.linux.pizzaMy Division 2 addiction seems to be cured. I'm absoutely falling love with DayZ right now. How could I ignore this gem for so long? Brilliant game, great atmosphere, interacting with strangers as a necissity... Just wow!
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizzaDigital Minimalism: Using One Device for Everything
https://theprivacydad.com/digital-minimalism-using-a-single-device-for-everything/
Using a smartphone for everything is technically a form of digital minimalism, but its constant physical …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe founder of an addiction treatment network is charged with orchestrating vandalism at NHPR journalists' homes after a report into his alleged sexual abuse (Ally Jarmanning/New Hampshire Public Radio)
https://www.nhpr.org/nh-ne…
@scott@carfree.city"tough on crime" ruins lives and doesn't make us safe.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/sf-teen-defendant-substance-treatment-alternative-prison-sentence/
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialThis is such a devastatingly sad read for how "chat bots" are effectively exploiting people's loneliness: Inside ‘AI Addiction’ Support Groups, Where People Try to Stop Talking to Chatbots
https://www.404media.co/inside-ai-addiction-support-groups-where-people-try-to-stop-talking-to-chatbots/
@arXiv_eessSP_bot@mastoxiv.pageNeuroCLIP: A Multimodal Contrastive Learning Method for rTMS-treated Methamphetamine Addiction Analysis
Chengkai Wang, Di Wu, Yunsheng Liao, Wenyao Zheng, Ziyi Zeng, Xurong Gao, Hemmings Wu, Zhoule Zhu, Jie Yang, Lihua Zhong, Weiwei Cheng, Yun-Hsuan Chen, Mohamad Sawan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20189
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI am triply cautious of this article from @…:
- OpenAI et al use the supposed danger (and thus implied power) of their own product as a marketing ploy (as the article points out)
- When a product vendor funds their own research about the potential dangers of their product, it’s more likely to be good PR than good research
- Society always engages in moral panics about new things causing addiction and psychological damage (including bicycles and novels!)
With those caveats in mind, I do think this is an issue worth watching closely. And that quote in the post? Chef’s kiss.
https://mstdn.ca/@dyckron/114796898620291517
@servelan@newsie.socialMilitary official calls Trump 'biggest threat' [to opsec] due to his 'social media addiction' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump/trump-social-media-iran/
@emd@cosocial.caAtlantic article about phone addiction from someone who doesn’t own one. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/06/smartphone-never-owned/683267/
@paulwermer@sfba.socialExcellent, informative post by #SenatorChrisMurphy addressing why bombing Iran was perhaps not the best idea:
https://op…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialExcellent, informative post by #SenatorChrisMurphy addressing why bombing Iran was perhaps not the best idea:
https://op…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSAMHSA has fought drug and mental health crises. Now it's in crisis. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/19/samhsa-addiction-mental-health-cuts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p16#a250619p16
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.pageDiscounting and Drug Seeking in Biological Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Vardhan Palod, Pranav Mahajan, Veeky Baths, Boris S. Gutkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04549
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageThis https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08766 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzInside ‘AI Addiction’ Support Groups, Where People Try to Stop Talking to Chatbots https://www.404media.co/inside-ai-addiction-support-groups-where-people-try-to-stop-talking-to-chatbots/
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Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Ocean Size
#JanesAddiction
https://startmakingsense.bandcamp.com/track/ocean-size
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gp0e8WPmC1xw9Juz1SSOc
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaWill a Dumbphone Fix Your Social Media Addiction?
#NowWatching
@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.pageAdaptive network dynamics and behavioral contagion in multi-state drug use propagation
Hsuan-Wei Lee, Yi-Hsuan Huang, Nishant Malik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21766
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Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Been Caught Stealing
#JanesAddiction
https://janesaddictionlive.bandcamp.com/track/been-caught-stealing
https://open.spotify.com/track/13ELEX7NzAXuCSVDOshBJC
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzSome very insightful comments in this thread i.m.o.
"It's classic Skinnerian operant conditioning with intermittent (variable rate) rewards. You want whatever it's outputting to be good (code, text, image, etc). Sometimes it isn't but sometimes it is, and you can't usually understand why. When it is good, you experience the reward. The fact that the reward is intermittent and inscrutable makes the desire to repeat the behavior extremely strong."
"Normally an intermittent reward is a sign of a skill that one can master. ... It makes sense that as a species for which tool use is so fundamental that we'd be especially prone to this. ... But we really aren't prepared for when the thing can't be mastered, where it's fundamentally unreliable."
"the slot machine cycle... if I can just figure out exactly how to word this prompt..."
"It feels so overwhelmingly good to some % of people they don't even bother to measure if their AI stuff is actually doing anything useful, because of course it must be, because the feeling is so strong."
#LLMs #addiction #Skinner #behaviourism #OperantConditioning #VariableReinforcement
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