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The slot machine model allows the most powerful and profitable companies in the entire world to entirely dissolve the problem that, for a century, Hollywood executives and big publishing houses and Broadway producers have all attempted to solve: What will hold people’s attention? They don’t have to have an answer. They can simply throw a million little interruptions at us, track which ones grab our attention, and then repeat those. Over time this process, thanks to machine learning and the efficiencies of genuinely competitive markets, will get better and better, finding what grabs your attention at a given moment and giving you nothing but that.