Lightcone is so outraged at the Guardian article that they have started a prediction market about it (manifold.markets)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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WE DEMAND A CORRECTION TO uh various minor nitpicks

also we swear we totally didn't get your email

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I am having a lot of fun on Manifold, but if the team insists on inviting eugenics speakers to conferences, its probably time for me to leave :-/

What exactly is your objection to people exercising their bodily autonomy to implement voluntary eugenics?

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[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 0 points 5 months ago

is it considered acceptable journalistic ethics at Vox for a journalist who reports on EAs and prediction markets to make prediction market bets on how a journalistic outlet will follow-up a story on prediction markets and EAs? My eyebrows have just levitated so high they've collided with a starlink swarm.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 0 points 5 months ago

yes, she's ingroup

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 0 points 5 months ago

But betting? There’s being an insider and then there’s profiting, and aren’t most journalists prohibited from trading or betting on their covered areas?

[-] Evinceo@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago

Aren't prediction markets an attempt to turn insider trading into a productive part of society (or whatever the libertarians who love prediction markets conceptualize as society.)