MileyCyrus comments on Open thread, March 17-31, 2013 - Less Wrong

1 Post author: David_Gerard 17 March 2013 03:37PM

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Comment author: MileyCyrus 17 March 2013 04:27:36PM *  1 point [-]

Would it be inappropriate to host a Less Wrong March Madness bracket pool?

Edit: Not going to do it.

Comment author: notsonewuser 17 March 2013 06:17:01PM -1 points [-]

Less Wrong is about rationality. Surely there are better ways to have fun than to arbitrarily redistribute our wealth. Unless you somehow plan to make some of the money go to charity, or not involve money at all, I don't see the point.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 17 March 2013 06:25:20PM 5 points [-]

It might be relevant as a calibration exercise, though.

Comment author: MileyCyrus 17 March 2013 06:58:07PM 0 points [-]

I was going to do it for honor/karma.

Comment author: [deleted] 18 March 2013 03:34:06PM 3 points [-]

IMO that would be a misuse of the karma system.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 27 March 2013 05:18:31PM 1 point [-]

An interesting thing would be to set up a prediction market and compare the results

Comment author: Elithrion 18 March 2013 06:27:53PM 1 point [-]

I suspect there's too much of a difference in how much LW members know about basketball to get particularly wide participation. For example, I had to look up "March Madness" to figure out what this is about.

Also, there's a significant chance that either people would just copy the odds from Pinnacle, or maybe even arbitrage against it (valuing karma or whatever at 1-2 cents). Or, well, I'd certainly be tempted to =]