You might shake your head with painful memories of large dollar amounts lost, and swear on a stack of Bibles that you will never again be foolish sufficient to engage in a shoot-out with the One-Armed Bandit, but who are you kidding? Maybe, with just a little luck, you will be able to resist the call of the slot machine for a number of weeks, perhaps even a month or two. But you know damn well that you'll be back for a rematch at some point. You cannot just let that Bandit win so effortlessly, can you? No way.

It is just a machine, of course, content with a "brain" comprised of wires and microchips. You, then again, are a living, breathing entity with the capacity for critical thinking and self-reflection. If humankind is to possess any hope at all in surviving the worldwide war against machines that surely will come some day, we would better at least be able to beat the slots.