I agree with that.
The key, now, is to go beyond the accuracy issue and to move on to the utility issue.
It’-s a much complex problematic, which those who have been over-selling the prediction markets are unwilling to undertake. [*]
Maybe a small bunch of prediction market people, maybe assembled in a new prediction market structure, might go for that lofty goal of fingering the specific instances where prediction markets create real social utility.
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[*] Yelling across the harbor, like an illuminated Jesus Christ, that prediction markets can help “-avoiding future [financial] crisis”- is a sign that some prediction market practitioners have lost their intellectual compass. To my knowledge, InTrade hadn’-t had any prediction market focused on the “-looming credit crunch crisis”-, last summer. Its CEO should be careful about making any grand statement. As I wrote many times, at best, the prediction markets are the best umpire you can have between either the mass media and the politicians, on one hand, and a group consisting of the best experts, on the other hand. An umpire is only useful during critical times, in a game. But, other than that, most of the times, the umpire is not the determinant of the game —-the players are.
The researchers and practitioners should make a solid case for each of these critical instances where the prediction markets have a real social utility.
Stop the over-selling. Let’-s start the real work.
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Whenever you’re ready Chris, because you’re falling behind rapidly.
Do you hate me, Chris. 🙂
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“To my knowledge, InTrade hadn’t had any prediction market focused on the “looming credit crunch crisis”
To be able to prevent a crisis, we need more markets. John Delaney talked about that. We also need people with vision. Hopefully John Delaney is such a guy.
One market I would like to see, is a market expressing the likelihood that the next president will still be alive, 12 months from his inauguration. We need it now, not 2 weeks from now.
We’re already too late.
Whenever you’re ready Chris, because you’re falling behind rapidly.
Do you hate me, Chris. 🙂
[…] See the comments on Midas Oracle here, here, here, and […]
“To my knowledge, InTrade hadn’t had any prediction market focused on the “looming credit crunch crisis”
To be able to prevent a crisis, we need more markets. John Delaney talked about that. We also need people with vision. Hopefully John Delaney is such a guy.
One market I would like to see, is a market expressing the likelihood that the next president will still be alive, 12 months from his inauguration. We need it now, not 2 weeks from now.
We’re already too late.
Whenever you’re ready Chris, because you’re falling behind rapidly.
Do you hate me, Chris. 🙂
[…] See the comments on Midas Oracle here, here, here, and […]
“To my knowledge, InTrade hadn’t had any prediction market focused on the “looming credit crunch crisis”
To be able to prevent a crisis, we need more markets. John Delaney talked about that. We also need people with vision. Hopefully John Delaney is such a guy.
One market I would like to see, is a market expressing the likelihood that the next president will still be alive, 12 months from his inauguration. We need it now, not 2 weeks from now.
We’re already too late.