gwern comments on Open Thread, January 4-10, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 04 January 2016 10:59:49PM 4 points [-]

Is there a formal theory of how a rational actor should bet on prediction markets? If the prediction market says the probability is 70% and the actor thinks it's 60% is there a formal way to think about to what extend the agent thinks he knows better and should therefore bet against the market?

Comment author: gwern 04 January 2016 11:08:17PM 7 points [-]

I'd guess that that falls under the usual paradigms like Savage or Von Neumann-Morgenstern. For example, the Kelly criterion.