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Poker as a Paratime for Risky Decision Making in Life

Bena: We fail to imagine our future selves as individuals, but that we do this on a collective level. Maria konakova referred to a description experience gap. That's the difference between making a judgment based on numerical probability and making one based on actual experience with a series of events. The experienced gap helps resolve the radox study of people committing big blunders in life.

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