would play games to test their favor with the
NBA Live Coins gods, and even now, it is difficult not to think of "luck" when one is doing either particularly badly, or
particularly well, at rolling dice. The idea might have no basis in science, but
it has huge claim over the way we think about everyday life. That said, the Will
Of The Gods doesn't generally play too much role in how we understand ourselves
today. Ostensibly we live today in a largely meritocratic sort of culture,
wherein how far
rise is related to how skilled we are, how hard we work, how smart we are (the Dunning Kruger effect notwithstanding). The writer Alain de Botton points at
Cheap NBA Live Mobile Coinsout that in England, in the Middle Ages, a very poor person was described as "an
unfortunate." Literally, de Botton says, "somebody who had not been blessed by
fortune." By contrast, these days, someone who is not very successful may be
unkindly referred to as "a loser." De Botton states: "There is a real difference
an unfortunate and a loser. And that shows 400 years of evolution in society, and our belief in who is responsible for our lives. It's no longer the gods,
it's us. We're in the driving seat." Of course, each of us have our own mental
model of how the world works; this could be informed by religious (or secular)
doctrine, be drawn from experience, or from the media, though most likely bits
of all of these. Our mental models of the world also govern whether one believes
in fate
or destiny, or whether we exist in a meritocracy within a cold, indifferent universe. How we understand chance, luck, or stochasticity is going to be
defined by that view of the world. For many of us cognitive biases will
dominate, and will therefore give us a skewed view of the influence of chance on
our lives. Like Cardano with his dice games, video games are potentially superb
tools for exploring randomness; and, even for MMOGO dispelling our cognitive biases.
Could they serve to
