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The gambling market is really bringing out the worst of us.
B-b-but futarchy and unbiased decisionmaking means well-calibrated markets could be a net good for society!! /hj
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Why do you apparently like a system that lets people bet on atrocities and then take steps to make said atrocities more likely?
And you think banning it would 100% work? and where did I say I liked it?
Why do you (obviously) think betting markets are good?
Man the moral degradation is off the charts. Prediction markets are easily the worst things to grace the internet by far and its not even close.
But we're in an era of less and less responsible government oversight, so the whole thing naturally gets ruined if there's no guardrails to prevent peoeple without souls or the accompanying morals from participating in ugly, greedy ways.
Though I'm also likely to adopt the idea that the absenece of competent government is an effect, not a cause, of some societies having had to mortgage their souls.
Edit: I mean, yeah, if you're stuck being fixated on pessimism and greed, of course there's a lot of ways this can be exploited. I just think that in its more pure, good faith form, the idea of letting the market tell you odds of things happening is pretty fascinating. I'm sure there's a whole body of economics on this idea, that it might be a better predictor of events than other models. I had fun betting $5 here and there on video game announcements/awards. (though for me betting is a game, not a financial strategy)
Man the moral degradation is off the charts. Prediction markets are easily the worst things to grace the internet by far and its not even close.
I don’t understand how this isn’t an immediate open and shut case for the police, assuming certain facts are verified independently. At the point that you’re making death threats to strangers you should be removed from civil society.
Just a pedantic, nit pick: you said "should be removed from civil society" but I think you just mean "removed from society" as in prosecuted and imprisoned.
"Civil society" has a specific meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_society
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Journalists do not normally work like that. That might be how beefs are fought on social media, but of course screenshots are easy to fake anyway.
I don't understand what your point is. What is the reader assumed to do about an article that does not bring any proof? The video of the missile exploding is also easy to fake, but it's an important element behind the reporting.
Man the moral degradation is off the charts. Prediction markets are easily the worst things to grace the internet by far and its not even close.
Some death threats are pretty harmless compared to that, assuming that nothing actually happens (which is pretty likely in my opinion).
I don’t understand how this isn’t an immediate open and shut case for the police, assuming certain facts are verified independently. At the point that you’re making death threats to strangers you should be removed from civil society.
Polymarket accounts are more-or-less just a crypto address.
Whatsapp accounts are somewhat easier to link to a real identity, but still not hard to at least obscure a bit.
The arm of the law struggles to reach across borders, and on the internet, it's quite plausible all those involved are in different jurisdictions.
I don’t understand how this isn’t an immediate open and shut case for the police, assuming certain facts are verified independently. At the point that you’re making death threats to strangers you should be removed from civil society.
The gambling market is really bringing out the worst of us.
The entertainment value of betting does not meet that standard, in my opinion.