RobinHanson comments on Programmatic Prediction markets - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: RobinHanson 26 April 2009 01:48:23AM 1 point [-]

As stated, it isn't clear why you can't write a "program" that just does one trade and never does another one. So you need a clearer proposal.

Comment author: whpearson 26 April 2009 09:10:26AM 0 points [-]

As I said there would be costs associated with getting a new program added that would make this prohibitive for large scale traders.

Comment author: RobinHanson 26 April 2009 02:21:07PM 0 points [-]

If you tax programs, where does that revenue go, so that traders can expect to gain on average?

Comment author: whpearson 26 April 2009 03:42:34PM 0 points [-]

What I am thinking is of is a scheme like the following.

Allow one free change of program per time period, say a month. Extra program changes would require a small administration fee. There wouldn't be any fee for the programs to trade.

The exact details of this would depend on the market.