Say you have to repeatedly press a button until you win. Would you rather have:

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Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 02:35:16 No.6896

A button with 1/90,000 chance to win after every press.
A button that wins after being pressed 100,000 times.

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Say you have to repeatedly press a button until you win. Would you rather have:

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 02:40:31 No.6897

definitely B, i'm not gonna deal with some bullshit rng with the chance to make me stay there until i do 150k presses

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 02:44:50 No.6898

>1/90,000 chance to win after every press
Yeah, pressing it 100,000 times is better than gambling on a 0.001% chance every press.

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 02:45:05 No.6899

>>6897
But if similar scenarios come up multiple times in your life, the RNG will average out and you'll save presses in the long run.

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 02:45:56 No.6900

>>6899
averages are an abstraction they don't actually guarantee anything

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 02:47:31 No.6902

if you math it out, by the time you've pressed A 100,000 times you have a 68% chance of succeeding

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 02:47:42 No.6903

Luck-based stuff is much too frustrating, at least in a situation like this. Critical hits and stuff are fun.

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 02:48:02 No.6904

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I saw that

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 02:50:21 No.6905

ssshh...

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 02:51:36 No.6906

>>6899
Or if multiple kissuers agree to choose the RNG option, then they'll save each other presses in total.

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 02:52:16 No.6907

I don't care about which one is statistically better. I just think it would feel way better to win the 1/90,000 chance.

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 03:30:06 No.6908

>>6896
Depends on what's being won. If I don't want it more than once, then I pick the 100k button.

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 14:48:34 No.6909

>>6908 (Me)
There's like a 30% chance that the 90k option will take over 100k presses.

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 19:03:59 No.6910

>>6899
Except that only matters if I actually push the button enough times to win. I would be much more likely to keep pushing the button if I knew that every press was getting me a small bit of progress, whereas in the random case non-winning presses are totally worthless and I'd probably burn out long before I hit the jackpot.

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 19:16:02 No.6911

>>6896
How long would it take to press a button 100,000 times? I'm guessing a couple of hours.
The time difference between 90K and 100K won't matter much at that scale, so I'd go for the guaranteed payout as long as the prize is worth that many hours.

Anonymous 06/16/25 (Mon) 20:08:15 No.6912

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Maxed out LCK stat so I'm just gonna press the button once and walk away. Bow before me DXT plebs.

Anonymous 06/20/25 (Fri) 19:21:32 No.6943

>>6896
Chance. I would rather never succeed than attribute my success to something as unfulfilling as 100,000 button presses. With chance at least I can brag or despair, depending on how it goes.

/poll/ - Polling and Honesty

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