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DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers

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Havoc · 1790701770 · focus · HN ↗
We do seem to be in a “everything is allowed” era
1. lokar · 1790702104 · focus · HN ↗
  Elections have consequences
  1. AlexandrB · 1790702319 · focus · HN ↗
    They actually don't. That's the problem.
    <a href="https://prospect.org/2026/07/07/economic-hit-men-for-gambling-apps/" rel="nofollow">https://prospect.org/2026/07/07/economic-hit-men-for-gamblin...
    lokar · 1790711497 · focus · HN ↗
    The meaning of that is, the people you elect matter. If you keep voting for the same (kind of) people, you will get the same results.
2. method_capital · 1790702291 · focus · HN ↗
  Except online poker (here in the states)! Gotta keep that one prohibited. Now, betting on every freethrow Joe BBall takes in a game ... we're morally good there. It's those pesky immoral cards we have a problem with!
  1. Exoristos · 1790713043 · focus · HN ↗
    After all, a deck of cards is The Devil's Picture Book[0][1].
    0. <a href="https://beaconlights.org/sermons/a-deck-of-cards" rel="nofollow">https://beaconlights.org/sermons/a-deck-of-cards
    1. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68367" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68367
3. jubilanti · 1790705356 · focus · HN ↗
  > We do seem to be in a “everything is allowed” era
  Except when it comes to protesting certain things.
  1. N_Lens · 1790739709 · focus · HN ↗
    It's an era where destroying genuine intrinsically valuable things is the highest reward activity. Until we run out of things to convert to money, that is.
4. sneak · 1790707991 · focus · HN ↗
  Individual liberty is a dangerous thing, by design.
  Existence isn't safe, and it's not up to the state to try to make it safe for you. It's our responsibility as a society to ensure that you have maximum liberty, insofar as it does not directly harm other people.
  You are entirely free (or, should be) to harm yourself, or to make decisions that put yourself in danger.

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