jimrandomh comments on Programmatic Prediction markets - Less Wrong

1 Post author: whpearson 25 April 2009 09:29AM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 25 April 2009 04:24:29PM 0 points [-]

I agree that this would generate better predictions than markets as currently envisioned, but the cost of allocating skilled programmers to this sort of task drastically exceeds the value of the predictions generated, even if those predictions are perfect.

Comment author: loqi 25 April 2009 04:44:32PM 0 points [-]

This suggests an interesting area of research, at least: Make prediction-programming as accessible as possible.