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If I said I had a machine where I put in "tokens", watch it spin, and either get nothing or something valuable (with which I get being largely chance), you'd pr

by gs17 7mo ago

If I said I had a machine where I put in "tokens", watch it spin, and either get nothing or something valuable (with which I get being largely chance), you'd presume it's some kind of slot machine. The important things IMO are the random chance of getting something and being able to keep retrying so rapidly. You can't keep paying to play the "refinancing game" until you get a good rate (at least not like pulling the lever again and again, you have to wait a long time, you won't call the same bank again and again, and suddenly they have an amazing rate), it's a different experience and the psychology is different.

Gagarin1917 7mo ago
If the definition of slot machine is so vague that it includes LLMs then it’s not really meaningful. If someone only ever paid $20 a month on slot machines AND typically came out ahead, that wouldn’t be any kind of gambling issue. Playing real slot machines is only really a problem if you regularly put in too much because the odds are literally set against you. Not true with LLMs, both you and the AI company would become more successful the more helpful their tool is.