Vegas
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Vegas is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 14, 2021 and September 08, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “The first time I went to Vegas”; “Late additions to the meetup list include Vilnius, Haifa, Vegas, and Durham”. It most often appears alongside ABUJA, Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas, Alexander Putilin.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 14, 2021
- Last seen: September 08, 2025
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- ABUJA (1 shared issues)
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- Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (1 shared issues)
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- Alexander Putilin (1 shared issues)
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- Amazon (1 shared issues)
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- American Gaming Association (1 shared issues)
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- Astralcodexten Com (1 shared issues)
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- Astralcodexten Com (1 shared issues)
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- Australian Gambling Research Center (1 shared issues)
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- B. F. Skinner (1 shared issues)
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- Bally (1 shared issues)
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- Baltimore (1 shared issues)
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- Berkeley (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
One explanation is that TikTok is a good corporate citizen that helps its users maintain responsible screen time habits. Another explanation comes from Natasha Dow Schüll’s excellent book Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (2012). Schüll talks about gambling machines, people who use them, and the addictions that develop between the two. I think the conclusions she draws are applicable not only to the gambling industry, but also to other peddlers of vice like TikTok.
Inline links: Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
The first time I went to Vegas, I knew a few tricks casinos would use to encourage me to gamble too much. I knew the hotel rooms were purposefully cheap, to entice me to visit Vegas. I knew casinos would have neither windows nor clocks, to help me lose my sense of time. I knew they would be full of bright lights and loud sounds, to overstimulate me. I knew nothing. Those tricks are old hat, as quaint as doilies. Machine gambling is a brave new world.
1: Meetups this week include Abuja, Dublin, Ho Chi Minh City, London, Manchester, Montevideo, Montreal, Moscow, Munich, Nairobi, Ottawa, Rio, Santiago, Singapore, Stockholm, Tokyo, Baltimore, Berkeley, Madison, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Seattle, and many others. And late additions to the meetup list include Vilnius, Haifa, Vegas, and Durham. See the list for more.