Gambling

“I think the campaign against smoking worked, because people like me hated it when someone next to them would light up, or on a plane, or in a movie theater. If someone, if my next to a neighbor gambles, whatever, on their phone, on the airplane, I don't care.”

“Gambling will always happen, will always be good as long as it's legal. So people, it's a vice. It's a vice investment. People like to speculate and make money off of it.”

“The difference is actually about whether the underlying thing, like the thing that you're actually engaging in, has actually some sort of economic, social, cultural relevance outside of the act of placing the trade, right? Like, and so, so it's like, is it art…”

“Many of them who make technology for young people do not have young people's mental health, Or growth or learning as their bottom line. They have profits. So they create technology that is Very much like gambling, that sets up the same behavioral consequences …”

“It's essentially just a prediction. It's an out loud prediction about something that's going to happen because human beings are prediction machines. That's why gambling is so difficult for people. It's not really the money as much as it is. I think the Cowboys…”

“I think it's actually more online betting is fucked, right? Like, whereas you can't, basically you're going to need to create spaces that are human only for things like gambling.”

“Well, but Warren never gambled heavily as a patron. Warren wanted the odds in his favor, not somebody else. It's just so simple if you're Warren. You want the house, you want to be the house, not the punter.”

“Like, I would almost say that it takes advantage of an inherent flaw in our programming. And I think that flaw has something to do with getting disproportionate wins Without the perception of doing disproportionate amount of work.”

“I think that that's a perfectly moral thing to do, and so that's the lens through which I view it, is that there's a market, and everybody's playing in the market, and they're voluntarily playing in the market”

“In some sense ICOs are kind of the gaming use case, right? It's kind of like a gambling, it's a gambling use case, right? And like, that's actually kind of what's happening is people are just gambling as real money.”