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NancyLebovitz comments on Moloch: optimisation, "and" vs "or", information, and sacrificial ems - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 24 August 2014 04:52:01AM 2 points [-]

The Elua thing about Las Vegas isn't that people can be snagged by intermittent reward, it's that people would like to have some sparkle with their intermittent rewards, so you get the extravagant architecture.