Robin Hanson
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 3d ago
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On accuracy, they just consistently win.
That's pretty clear that when you have a market on a topic and you compare it to another mechanism at the same time on the same topic, the markets are just as accurate or much more accurate.
also gambling.
Ordinary financial markets really give people pretty much as many gambling opportunities as they might like.
I guess you're just gonna say, oh, but the sports betting you're allowing here is maybe more fun for them.
So it's the added fun that's actually what you're objecting to, unless the losing of the money.
But you might say, I don't want people to have so much fun because they lose money when they have fun.
And I might go, Okay, fine, you you're gonna be a killjoy.
Then I might say, Look.
There's other purposes of markets, which is aggregating information, but we can distinguish roughly which markets add more information versus less.
So a market on some small sporting contest really isn't very likely to add information about very many practical decisions out there.
I might just wanna say if you're gonna
Cut back on people having fun because you think they're wasting too much money having fun.
I'd say, well, just allow the markets on questions that matter.
What comes to the top of your mind?
What kind of topics?
Well, there's world events, there's foreign policy, there's national policy, there's politics, there's business, there's tech.
Look on Calcian Polymarket, you will see the headers of categories, and many of those headers are not as much fun.
For most people, I'm okay with people having fun, especially since I think we just allow people to spend a lot of money having fun in a lot of other ways in our society.
Even risky fun.
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