JamesAndrix comments on Rational Me or We? - Less Wrong

116 Post author: RobinHanson 17 March 2009 01:39PM

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Comment author: JamesAndrix 17 March 2009 03:57:12PM 1 point [-]

I was just about to respond by asking if you would advocate a website in the beliefs of the members are aggregated based on their reliability, then I remembered: prediction markets.

I'm guessing you're not pushing a real prediction market due to legal issues, but why not create one that uses token points instead of real money?

My first thought was slightly different: have testable predictions, as in a market, but the system treats each persons' likelihood ratios as evidence (as well as the tags for the prediction, to account for each person's area of expertise)

It seems to me that the real issue still is a supply of testable problems.

Comment author: RobinHanson 17 March 2009 04:58:32PM 1 point [-]

It does take work to create judgeable claims, but there are other real issues as well.

Comment author: steven0461 17 March 2009 03:58:32PM 1 point [-]

I'm guessing you're not pushing a real prediction market due to legal issues, but why not create one that uses token points instead of real money?

Foresight Exchange

Comment author: MBlume 17 March 2009 07:53:41PM 0 points [-]

I'm guessing you're not pushing a real prediction market due to legal issues, but why not create one that uses token points instead of real money?

Laws can, and in this case should, be changed.