I spent almost two decades as a game developer and many of those years were spent developing professional lottery products.

I argued with a buddy for over 5 years about the gamblers fallacy and various other aspects to do with probabilities.

See, in his mind, he could somehow claim to understand the underlying statement that past events are not a predictor of future events… but he’s still insisted that if he monitored the patterns, he could somehow break through this truth.

I could never get through to him that there was no system. You’re just fucking gambling dude. Zero progress… and I refused after a while to discuss anything to do with probabilities.