His Jason Calacanis-inspired critique of The Wisdom Of Crowds is an abyssal nullity. James Surowiecki is a great thinker, and the principles behind the wisdom of crowds are effective. (see point #3.) – Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse: … Continue reading
I was happy to notice that the Independent Institute, the pro-market think tank that published Entrepreneurial Economics in 2002, featuring a Robin Hanson chapter on decision markets (and much else good), published a blog post titled Forget Polls: Look at … Continue reading
MIDAS ORACLE: 1,600 daily readers (600 visitors on the Web + 1,000 feed subscribers) THIRD WORKSHOP: 40 people in the room. – [Psstt… All the links to the presented papers… here.] – Ratio: 40 to 1. There are 40 times … Continue reading
Chris F. MasseMidas Oraclecfm —-—- midasoracle —-—- comchrisfmasse —-—- gmail —-—- com July 6th, 2008 Commodity Futures Trading CommissionThree Lafayette Centre1155 21st St. NWWashington D.C. 20581 Attention:Office of the Secretariat- [email protected] Reference:Concept Release on the Appropriate Regulatory Treatment of Event … Continue reading
Via our good friend Mike Linksvayer: —- Implied Prices for Presidential Decision-Aid Markets —- Implied Prices for Presidential Decision-Aid Markets – My good Doctor Robin Hanson, Please, refresh my memory: – Are your experimental, conditional prediction markets offered by the … Continue reading
John Horgan in the WSJ …-“-like nice liberal Democrats”-…- ha! ha! ha! —- …- like Mike Linksvayer, then…- (depending on your meaning of “-liberal”-)…- – Previous blog posts by Chris “GadFly” Masse: PROF TOM W. BELL, PLEASE, DO SKIP THE … Continue reading
Sorry for that, Nigel. Register yourself on Midas Oracle + Log in when you want to make a comment. – That way, the anti-spam mechanism won’-t apply to you. (I suppose that it prohibits the publishing of many external links … Continue reading
The New York Times on the brand-new SSRN ranking functionality: Bloggers like Mr. Reynolds [a university professor] tend to do well on the site, since they can promote their work and offer links to their articles. – Social Science Research … Continue reading
CFM: Blogs Midas Oracle: Links – Send me your blog URL, if you write on prediction markets —-and I’-ll Include it in the list (maybe ). The new kid on the block is The Quantified Pundit. Great blog name. Bookmark … Continue reading
