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stravant | 6 months ago

That assumes he would have stopped with the shenanigans, which is a pretty big if.

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Symmetry|6 months ago

Proudly proclaiming on the Conversations With Tyler podcast that given a double or nothing bet with a 51% chance of success he'd keep playing forever.

arduanika|6 months ago

It is probably just a coincidence, but it's darkly funny how well this lines up with the strategy described in a rather infamous LessWrong post. The title is "Solutions to the Altruist's burden: the Quantum Billionaire Trick", but you probably know it by a different name. The author is one Roko Mijic.

AnimalMuppet|6 months ago

Not forever. He'd have nothing soon enough.

twostorytower|6 months ago

Isn't that just the right thing to do, statistically? Vegas has been operating profitably this way for decades.