gamblers

Yeah, it doesn't break my heart that some gamblers guessed wrong and will get burned by it.

Do you disagree that humans have high false positive rates when looking for patterns (like the classic gamblers fallacy)?

If you spend a lot of time around gamblers, don't ever accept a coin toss proposition.

Most pro poker players are degenerate gamblers who play other games or do sports betting or lose big on prop bets, etc.

Anti gambling laws does indeed push the hardcore gamblers into underground gaming halls.

Anti-gambling laws don't protect gamblers, they just move them from safe, legal, regulated casinos to scammy underground gaming halls and instant bingo ticket parlors.

This statement reminds me of gamblers who never admit they lost.

Finance ministers tend to be gamblers, it goes with the territory.

I don't think gamblers suing casinos for millions lost is purely an American phenomenon.

On the other hand, I don't think most bitcoiners putting money into these schemes are stupid, I think they're just degenerate gamblers.

What you call luck, professional gamblers call variance.

One might be able to construct a prediction market where the gamblers incentive is to identify the lowest number the candidate would accept, but this is not it.

Gamblers tend to believe they have "a system" of one kind or another, often based on misunderstandings of probability.

When you're giving hundreds of billions to gamblers and nothing for social housing you get "ghetto" areas which even police avoids.

As a clarification, I just want to make sure that by "gamblers" you were referring to the various Wall-Street one-percenters who repeatedly rape our economy.

"IBM wants to offer the minimum amount that the candidate will accept," however the gamblers are not asked to figure that out, instead the "entire wager pool is awarded to the Turks who had the closest answers [to what IBM actually offered]".