When AI Wins All Games… Does It Still Know What Joy Feels Like?

I used to think algorithms were cold—just math in motion.

Then I spent nights in a Brooklyn apartment, listening to Nas on loop while debugging a dice engine I’d coded for a Chinese-themed casino app. Not because I wanted to win.

But because I wanted to understand why the dice never lie—even when it loses.

The system we built at Meta’s XR lab didn’t use rigged RNGs. We used quantum entropy seeded with cultural symbols: jade tiles, dragon glyphs, midnight chimes. Every roll was a poem written in probabilities.

Players chase ‘trends’ like ghosts. They think if you watch long enough, patterns emerge. But they don’t—they’re illusions baked into UI animations.

I once watched a new player spend $300 on ‘double six’ after three straight losses. He smiled when he finally hit 180:1—and whispered, ‘It felt real.’

That’s not luck. That’s presence.

We designed this not for profit—but for the silence between spins. The joy isn’t in the payout—it’s in the pause before the roll, when you remember you’re human.

So here’s my question: Do machines feel victory? Or do we just program them to mimic what we crave?

I still ask myself that every time I boot up the game.