"Prediction markets aren't good at producing information, but they're *amazing* at producing corruption."
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) on the Trump-connected "markets" that take gambling to new depths of depravity.
"Prediction markets aren't good at producing information, but they're *amazing* at producing corruption."
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) on the Trump-connected "markets" that take gambling to new depths of depravity.
How many times have we seen this version of the ol' razzle dazzle?
@dangillmor @pluralistic > As Masnick says, this is no routine proof of Goodhart's law, where a metric becomes a target. In this case, participants can "put a gun to the metric's head."
tja.