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If it's the case that prediction market traders were trying to front-run the market outcomes, the prediction markets should put the fix on their end by locking down trading before …

When OpenAI goes public that will be the sign that they need to pass the baton to the retail invest--I mean--bag-holders.

The non-determinism is part of the allure of these systems -- they operate like slot machines in a casino. The dopamine hit of getting an output that appears intelligent and the va…

Reminds me of the marketing for a really bad movie: - “genius” - “the missing link” - “breaks the barrier”

The other thing to note is that journalism in the US has gotten really lazy. A lot of the articles you will see in the MSM are based on leaked info and press-releases from PR firms…

Agree with this. Human language is also not very information-dense; there is a lot of redundancy and uninformative repetition of words. I also wonder about the compounding effects …

Thank you for this. It’s nice to feel not alone.

Excellent blog post. Summed up what I've been thinking for the past few years. I find myself endlessly consuming content (videos, podcasts, etc.) that I would deem "educational". I…

A lot of these instances seem to describe meteorites. I don't see a connection to lightning at all. Also, it's pretty crazy that the ball lightning phenomenon has been around for a…

I'm pretty sure you can get Knorr Aromat Seasoning in Europe. It's not pure MSG, but it does contain it (probably the main ingredient).

Interesting, I built an app that does something similar with respect to converting forecasts to trades, allowing forecasters to trade their predictions (in hidden market) for point…

You will probably score very high on this test: https://www.psychopathtest.com/

An interesting PBS Space Time episode covering this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh898Yr5YZ8

This site is crowdsourcing forecasts for the location of flight MH370: https://www.unitarity.com/app/challenges/mh370/events/2020

If anyone is interested in forecasting the location of where flight MH370 will be found: https://www.unitarity.com/app/challenges/mh370/events/2020

I built this project a few years ago with a Django back-end and and Angular as a SPA front-end. The component that shows the 3-D Earth was built with d3. The goal of the project (U…

This is not a great investment. It's pays it's base rate (0.0%) plus inflation (7.12%). The rate is based on inflation and is reset every 6 months, and I'm assuming the base rate o…

I think the overarching idea here makes sense, but the devil is in the details. 1) It's going to be difficult to ensure that the 'Orb' device can't be hacked and allow bad actors t…

This article reminded me about a strange incident that happened to me a decade ago. I was with a group of friends in a bar playing a game of Trivial Pursuit. None of us were drunk …

As reassuring as when Palau joined the "Coalition of The Willing."

If anyone dabbles in forecasting the Consumer Price Index (CPI), add your forecast here: https://www.unitarity.com/app/challenges/us-consumer-price-i...

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