Playing Balatro

The reason gambling is fun is that we are not our reward function .

Maybe once we were, maybe once, long ago we were nothing but a little knot of signals that was able to remain stable far out of equilibrium with its environment, a little loop of Bayesian inference that was able to climb the signal gradient towards more and more complex and robust forms of stability. But now that we know that, now that we can look ... See more

One of the reasons I love games like this is that, unlike Chess, this is a wicked problem . What’s the best way for an agent to extract information from a noisy environment? We make sense of the world through stories of cause and effect, but, on close examination these stories are far less simple than they appear. In The Book of Why, computer scien... See more