Comment by ambicapter
1 month ago
Sorry, this can't be anything but an intentionally obfuscating comment that I need to call out.
> more of a statement of human behavior under uncertainty and non-determinism rather than the tools themselves.
This is basically saying "It's not gambling, it's just the psychological underpinnings that form the foundation of all gambling enterprises". Who cares to split this difference other than casino owners?
I was not actually defending LLM tools or casinos. Not every system with variable outcomes and ritualized user behavior is meaningfully equivalent to wagering money against probabilistic loss (slots). If the same reasoning were applied to video games or running scientific experiments of any kind, we'd end up labeling most uncertainty-laden interaction as gambling. I just did not find it particular enough.