Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Open Thread, July 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 12 July 2013 05:31:22AM 2 points [-]

Derren Brown demonstrated this scam on TV and called it The System. That might help you track down a name.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 12 July 2013 11:28:39PM *  0 points [-]

I've got one cite of it as the Perfect Prediction scam, but it doesn't seem to be a standard name.

This scam shows up in an R. A. Lafferty story, with the suggestion that if you're good at picking winners, you'll get a better return by not doing a fifty-fifty split at each stage.

I've checked some pages about types of frauds, and that one doesn't show up. I'm guessing that it's just too much work compared to other sorts of fraud.