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DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers

570 points · 432 comments · paimapi

ecshafer · 1790700742 · focus · HN ↗
Legalizing sports betting and online gambling was such a massive mistake. They are sleazy immoral industries that profit on suffering.
1. ActorNightly · 1790704798 · focus · HN ↗
  In general, there is a bigger philosophical question.
  Do we treat humans as
  1) having full agency, and thus full responsibility for their actions
  2) having less than full agency, and then to what extent must society/governments implement control over things that humans can't control within themselves
  Because generally, if you subscribe to 1, there is nothing immortal from taking money from a human that that wants to hand it over, provided that human well knows what is at stake. So as long as these websites aren't defrauding the customers with fake stats, there really is nothing wrong.
  If you subscribe to 2, then thats a much riskier line to walk because that affects a lot of things, not just gambling.
  1. sidewndr46 · 1790712231 · focus · HN ↗
    We clearly subscribe to option 2 in the United States. We don't allow access to medication based on your own volition. We don't allow access to medical procedures based on your own volition.
    ActorNightly · 1790784955 · focus · HN ↗
    Option 2 is world wide. Unfortunately it seems to be the correct one if we want society to last. I don't think that humans have the internal machinery in their brains compatible with growing a society without strong oversight.

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