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104. Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll

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Gambling Machines Aren't a Gamble

The author says that in a way the gambling machines aren't really a gamble because you know what the result is so there's a kind of control. He has this idea that probabilities poorly understood by thinking about in terms of gambling. In the real world with probabilities you have to try to operate under uncertainty where you don't know what the rules are and what are the right ways to do that.

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