[comboy]

I kind of enjoy exploring black boxes, trying how different inputs are mapping to differences in outputs. It's kind of like hacking. The problem is, they keep altering the box.

[marcosdumay]

The box is stochastic by design, and has an untraceable amount of complexity between its context and output by nature.

It may be fun to look at inputs and outputs, but it's not hackable and trying to map one into the other is more like astrology than a science.

[masfuerte]

It's copromancy. Picking through the clanker's doings in an attempt to predict the future.

[utopiah]

Thanks, you taught me a new word today! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatomancy

[marcosdumay]

It feels like Greek mythology should have some metaphor for "apparently simple structure that is so complex it leads anybody that studies it into madness". But I can't think of any name to put there.

Maybe the idea of complexity is too modern.

[utopiah]

No but you see, I have a system! /s

(I spent too long by the horse racing track)

[rconti]

The third sentence got to what my objection was going to be. It's fun trying to make the thing do what you want it to do! That's why many of us like computers. It's the randomness that sucks and makes the process unsatisfying.

[witx]

That's just just a slot machine