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the jackpot age — LessWrong

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This essay is about shifts in risk taking towards the worship of jackpots and its broader societal implications. Imagine you are presented with this…

x the jackpot age — LessWrong World Optimization AI Practical Rationality World Modeling Frontpage 2025 Top Fifty: 14 % 300 the jackpot age by thiccythot 11th Jul 2025 5 min read 19 300 This essay is about shifts in risk taking towards the worship of jackpots and its broader societal implications. Imagine you are presented with this coin flip game. How many times do you flip it? At first glance the game feels like a money printer. The coin flip has positive expected value of twenty percent of your net worth per flip so you should flip the coin infinitely and eventually accumulate all of the we

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