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Robin Hanson is confident about long-term prediction markets.
Robin Hanson : At ideosphere.com you will find eight claims that are over fifteen years old and still trading. One of them will be known in a few weeks. Calibration tests have been done on ideosphere prices showing moderate long shot bias I think. Midas Oracle = About + Archives + ...
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Yes, prediction markets “incentivize accuracy”, but there is no guarantee of success.
Paul Hewitt’s answer to Robin Hanson and Nate Silver: Paul Hewitt : Yes, prediction markets “incentivize accuracy”, but there is no guarantee of success. So far, we know that they *can* work in short (actually very short) term issues. There is absolutely no evidence that they work in ...
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Abolish the Federal Reserve, buy gold and avoid the US dollar.
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Why Nate Silver is wrong about the usefulness of long-term prediction markets: IT DIDN’T WORK. IT IS A PATENTED FAIL.
Nate Silver becomes a little Robin Hanson fanboy… after just a lunch with the Master. ACT ONE : Nate Silver lunches with Robin Hanson, one month ago, to interview him for his future book about forecasting. ACT TWO : Robin Hanson has published yet another post pumping up prediction ...
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Crowdsourcing falls into the ravine.
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High-resolution map of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States
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An Inconvenient Debt
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Blind faith in gold?
Jason Ruspini : There is no blind faith involved. A lot of trading is about heuristics and when multiple oscillators and sentiment indicators get to extreme levels, it’s prudent to lighten up. When that happens, I agree that it’s actually a crowded trade — as opposed to the “crowded trade” ...
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Is Apple becoming evil? — Jason Calacanis vs Guy Kawasaki
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Ibrahim Maalouf plays music with a trumpet in fourth tones.
Ibrahim Maalouf @ Wikipedia He explains it all 2:30 into the video: Midas Oracle = About + Archives + Authors + Best + Contact + Information Technology + Links + Probabilistic Predictions + Post-Mortem Predictions + Prediction Exchanges + Prediction Software + Publish Your ...
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Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematics to predict political events.
Experts Who Predict the Future Criticism of Bueno de Mesquita’s Theories Addendum : Philip Tetlock’s foxes and hedgehogs Midas Oracle = About + Archives + Authors + Best + Contact + Information Technology + Links + Probabilistic Predictions + Post-Mortem ...
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Jim Rickards discusses $4,000 gold on CNBC.
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Jason Ruspini’s analysis on gold and inflation is the best I’ve seen.
Jason Ruspini : Fortunately, gold doesn’t need inflation to go up. That misperception kept many people out of gold and was one of the reasons why the trade was not actually overcrowded. The dollar is going down, but as Bernanke said, the dollar is only one input to inflation. The US is ...
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Warren Buffett is 100% for the independence of the Federal Reserve.
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UPS is in a political fight with FEDEX.
– “UPS’s workforce is much more heavily unionized than FEDEX’s —and more than twice as expensive.” - “UPS is trying to get FEDEX reclassified under federal law as a way of screwing a competitor.” Reason TV : Midas Oracle = About + ...
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Has the U.S. made the right decisions during the recession?
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Will the USA legalize real-money gambling and betting over the Internet? — CNBC video
Odds Favoring Online Gambling? – CNBC - Andrew Parmentire, Height Analytics - David Katz, Oppenheimer gaming analyst Download this post to watch the CNBC video –if you’re feed reader doesn’t show it to you: Via Alexander Ainslie et al . Addendum : Global ...
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Peter Schiff disagrees with Nouriel Roubini about whether there is a commodity bubble (e.g., gold).
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Debating on whether we should audit the Fed
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Has a big global-warming fraud just been uncovered
- Do hacked e-mails show global-warming fraud? - Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’ ? - More from Memeorandum . Midas Oracle = About + Archives + Authors + Best + Contact + Information Technology + Links + Probabilistic Predictions ...
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