[EdvinPL]

AI feels more like a gamble. People like gambling. From casinos (win-loose), to lootboxes (uncertainty) or even extramarital sex (whose baby is it?).

This way - AI work is like a slot machine - will this work or not? Either way - casino gets paid and casino always wins.

Nevertheless - if the idea or product is very good (filling high market pain) and not that difficult to build - it can enable non-coders to "gamble" for the outcome with AI for $.

Sadly - from by experiences hiring Devs - hiring people is also a gamble...

[ketzu]

> or even extramarital sex (whose baby is it?).

This is the weirdest example of "gambling" I have seen in my life. If you'd've written "unprotected sex" I'd see the gambling part, but "extramartial sex" covers so much more than the tiny subset of "whose baby is it" (how many people are there having sex to gamble on who will be the father of a baby? 10?).

This made my day.

[sh4rks]

Writing code by hand is gambling (will it compile or not, will it pass code review or not)

[stavros]

Under this definition, everything is gambling, including commenting on HN (will I get upvoted or downvoted?).

[pocksuppet]

There used to be forums without voting. It was discovered that forums with voting attract more engagement because of the emotions produced by the voting.

[BarryMilo]

It also used to be that reddit comments were the epitome of quality in their time, much closer to current HN if not better. I attributed that to the voting mechanism; clearly I was mistaken.

[sirl1on]

Everything is modeled after gambling nowadays to nudge and gamify the user experience to a desired outcome

[stavros]

If your definition of "gambling" is "things with uncertain outcome", then there's nothing in life that's not gambling.