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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2h

neato, as the kids say arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22818

CAN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS DEVELOP
GAMBLING ADDICTION?
Seungpil Lee1, Donghyeon Shin1, Yunjeong Lee2, Sundong Kim1
1Department of AI Convergence, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
2Department of Life Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
{iamseungpil, dong97411, linda0706}@gm.gist.ac.kr,
sdkim0211@gist.ac.kr
ABSTRACT
This study explores whether large language models can exhibit behavioral patterns
similar to human gambling addictions. As LLMs are increasingly utilized in finan-
cial decision-making domains such as asset management and commodity trading,
understanding their potential for pathological decision-making has gained practi-
cal significance. We systematically analyze LLM decision-making at cognitive-
behavioral and neural levels based on human gambling addiction research. In slot
machine experiments, we identified cognitive features of human gambling addic-
tion, such as illusion of control, gambler’s fallacy, and loss chasing. When given
the freedom to determine their own target amounts and betting sizes, bankruptcy
rates rose substantially alongside increased irrational behavior, demonstrating that
greater autonomy amplifies risk-taking tendencies. Through neural circuit analy-
sis using a Sparse Autoencoder, we confirmed that model behavior is controlled by
abstract decision-making features related to risky and safe behaviors, not merely
by prompts. These findings suggest LLMs can internalize human-like cognitive
biases and decision-making mechanisms beyond simply mimicking training data
patterns, emphasizing the importance of AI safety design in financial applications

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 8h

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 4h

I'm going to assume you're acting in good faith: LLM training windows generally lag by about 6 months, so there's no reason for an LLM to 'know' anything about terms that have only come into use recently.

Hope this helps!

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 19h

Fwiw anthropic is just generically better IME, I clarified that I was discussing events not covered in its training data, not hypotheticals, and Claude invoked tools, ran a bunch of google searches saw that I was right and was like "damn yeah that's fucked up and kinda fascist with it"

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

‘dear rax, how can i make sure i’m ready for the day my very sick mother dies?’
www.patreon.com/posts/140925...

Your question was whether there's a way to prepare for your mother's death, not whether there's a way to worry less about it, and I'll take a stab at answering that question using my experience with my father's as an example. No, you can't prepare for it. It will be like nothing you've felt yet. Maybe you think that if you worry about it really well—if you devote yourself to this anxiety, if you memorize your fear like a prayer—you can defeat it before it defeats you, like Roman's "pre-grieving" on Succession. But it didn't work for him because it doesn't work. Authoritative as it can feel, anxiety is incapable of describing anything it hasn't actually seen, like the death of a parent. All it can do is push us around various ugly landmarks in our minds: awful experiences we've already had, pains we've already processed. Anxiety is the blustering cokehead cousin of self-soothing. It brags about everything it knows to conceal the fact that it doesn't know anything. You can't feel what you haven't felt until, well...until you feel it.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

It's that or use one piece and try to bend it into shape, like with a bit of stitching maybe to get the 90 degree corners. Maybe viable, maybe not, but idk if I want to wet form it that always ends up feeling kinda manky to the touch, fibers shrink and all that

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

I think I don't have the skills to make that look clean tho, so something in leather it'll probably have to be, better well made and slightly unconvincing in a nice material than janky but real looking. Maybe like 4-5 stacked leather 'pages' cut from the thick stuff, and seen edge-on?

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 1d

gotta say i am not enjoying seeing breaking news about american university professors successfully fleeing the country

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

Probably impossible to use actual paper without having it look like a hollow book stoner stash box, the metal gilded edge look is a neat idea

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda like Olympia Le-Tan vibes, maybe like natural tanned leather with a bunch of laser etched lines (to mimic stacked pages) instead of the flat metal 'gilded-edge pages' look they favor olympialetan.com

Olympia Le-Tan®️ (OLT) – Official Website

Olympia Le-Tan®️ (OLT) is a Parisian fashion house that celebrates art, culture, and exceptional craftsmanship, offering unique and timeless pieces designed to inspire and captivate.

olympialetan.com

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

I think I want to make a crossbody purse using a mix of bookbinding and leatherworking techniques, probably waxed bookcloth over plywood with leather and brass hardware or similar. Could be a fun build, kinda elegant, club vibes, sized just right for my phone and wallet and keys..

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

just like a dash + some salt with long grain rice like basmati, it'll add a really subtle nice flavor when it cooks w/ it

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

while it's cooking, just a dash mixed in with the water for the aroma + some salt (only for Mediterranean food, not for Indian food or other cuisines that assume unsalted rice will balance salty mains)

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

there was a while where anthropic's "oh the user is having a psychotic break over insane hypotheticals" handler would trigger if you told it about alligator alcatraz, national guard deployments, ICE grabbing people off the street, etc

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

you just gotta put a little bit of olive oil and salt in and it'll turn out great

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

that hand is... odd

hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

oh right lol, yeah - abstracting over arity is a hard problem

hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

it seems like you are deeply unconcerned with whether or not what you're saying is true or not? strange behavior

hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

I mean... a device that actively causes pain vs a nonpainful buzzing thing? I feel like it's pretty obvious these are on different moral levels entirely and I'm concerned that you don't see that

hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

no I mean like heterogenous lists like

HCons a b = (a, b)
HNil = ()

sorta vibes

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

do we actually have any reason to believe this happened? AFAIK it was the little vibrating motor puck thing

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

The studies seemed to show pretty good results for the Brain-to-LLM groups (write your own essay, use LLMs to provide critique/ask clarifying questions), but dear lord - the LLM-to-Brain group sure was a cautionary tale

hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, that really sucks

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

My take on the Hassan dog collar thing is that one time a friend of a friend reverse engineered the wireless protocol used by a popular brand of shock collars, got ultracancelled, and I had to be like "no they had this because my friend and I were using it for sex reasons, no dogs were harmed"

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 1d

I've found them to be pretty useful given sufficient guidance/structure, but obviously ymmv. What would you consider sufficient evidence to convince you of this?