Khoth comments on Prediction: Autism Rate will Stop Increasing - Less Wrong

2 Post author: OneLonePrediction 16 November 2012 07:26PM

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Comment author: Khoth 17 November 2012 03:38:38PM 3 points [-]

(What is counterparty risk, by the way?)

The risk that if you lose the bet, you don't pay up. It's relatively high here because a single-purpose account has no reputation to care about.

Comment author: gwern 27 July 2013 07:14:45PM 0 points [-]

Especially since he immediately stopped commenting (last comment November 2012), and there's no way to track him down to a real name, so if one had made a bet with him and won, how could one collect?