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Comment author: wedrifid 07 August 2013 04:20:12AM 3 points [-]

That's not an argument for lotteries

I notice that benelliott did not imply that it was.

That's not an argument for lotteries, that's an argument for the observation that given sufficiently large incentives to game complex system , some complex systems will be gamed.

It would seem, then, that lotteries are also a potential beneficiary for people who understand statistics sufficiently well. Similarly, someone from the local MENSA chapter makes a steady $0.5M/yr as a professional poker machine gambler. Or at least he did back when I participated in MENSA.

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