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In Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman Feynman tells of gambling at Vegas for the first time. He calculated his expected loss at craps at around a penny a game, s
by abecedarius 10y ago
In Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman Feynman tells of gambling at Vegas for the first time. He calculated his expected loss at craps at around a penny a game, so he tried it and lost 5 dollars right away -- and never gambled again. This lousy luck and good meta-luck has been engineered away, apparently.
In A Theory of Fun Raph Koster says fun is basically about learning. What video games teach you a feel for probabilities? There's poker -- anything else? There ought to be.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoWhich is why companies offer free starting money to gamble. That just clicked for me, it's the drug-pushers standard. Remove the downside long enough to get them hooked.
- Klockan 10y ago> What video games teach you a feel for probabilities? Every trading card game, Hearthstone is a popular example.
- abecedarius 10y agoThanks, I've never tried one yet. Bringing this up made me wonder if we couldn't have a game that's to poker what Go is to chess -- simpler rules, deeper play, keeping poker's nondeterminism and incomplete information.