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GURPS FAQ Keeper
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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Greetings, all!
I'm wondering: I've occasionally seen the Gambling skill mentioned in THS context, but is gambling even alive in 2100? Given the ubiquitous computing, there just doesn't seem to be a way for odds of a given game not being very clearly known to anyone caring enough to play. And given VIIs and Infomorphs, there's basically no way to ensure that a player isn't resorting to card-counting for 21, or a NAI with high Perception and Body Language for something like Poker, or risk/payoff calculations for something else. I suppose Gambling might've retreated to narrower niches, such as betting on the potential winners of various competitions. Thoughts? Thanks in advance! |
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Wielder of Smart Pants
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
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Casinos can ban electronic assistance in 2100 as easily as they do now (maybe even easier with ubiquitous surveillance).
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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How? Let's say Caine the Ghost or CSAF the SAI or Kitsos the regular guy goes to a casino. Figuring whether Caine is talking to his NAI is kinda problematic without being given full read access . . . and that's a lot to demand. It's even worse with CSAF, since he's not using an AI, he is an AI, and banning someone based on AIness is grounds for serious discrimination charges (in jurisdictions where AIs are citizens). With Kitsos, the only 'softer' way to do this is to demand that he shuts down his VII . . . which seems be about as intrusive and unusual in 2100 as a strip-search in 2012.
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Wielder of Smart Pants
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
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Also AIs have Honesty, which should keep them from cheating in casinos, and keep them from helping you cheat too. |
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(Also, I realise that Nevada isn't such a place, but other places are. Honesty may indeed stop AIs from using their Mathematical Ability, though I wonder if such demands are even legal. It's also interesting how it will be interpreted as applied to Sigmas.) |
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Location: Ventura CA
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It's probably significantly less common, since being able to do it with such precision requires some skill/discipline/dedication/etc.; in 2100, everyone can do it with his/her/its VII (and do it better than an average baseline human), so there are likely a lot more people actually doing it, thus more people caught doing it and more false positives.
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