1/ Historically, though statistics started in gambling, it has been driven by the risk-management motive, not the luck-creation motive
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2/ One of the earliest applications to be systematized for instance, was life insurance for widows.
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3/ Though many applications in science/tech are agnostic to risk-versus-luck angle, most social uses are on that spectrum and focus on risk
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That's questionable. Much of Gauss' work was driven by astronomy. Monte Carlo by nukes. Lots of app domains contributed to stats
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Yeah, I've seen it. Sociological folk theory. I want rigorous INTP theory :D
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Add it. It's publicly editable I think. Will put link somewhere more public at some point.
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