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Prediction markets as a news source are politically unbiased and nonpartisan , and this is what the establishment people here don't like.
by cft 13d ago
Prediction markets as a news source are politically unbiased and nonpartisan , and this is what the establishment people here don't like.
- freejazz 13d agoThey are partisan. It's just whoever decides to make the bets. Like the 2022 election situation was just one big whale. There's just nothing about it that makes it inherently non-partisan.
- nomilk 13d agoA partisan bet makes the opposite position slightly more profitable, attracting bets which equilibrate the market back at fair prices (i.e. realistic probabilities)
- freejazz 13d agoYeah but they markets don't equilibrate. Again, the 2022 election pool just reflected the thought of a big whale.
- nomilk 13d agoA whale just means the market gets more mis-priced, creating greater incentive for correction, which typically occurs. Let's for a moment say you're right, and prediction markets do have a flaw (that if someone wants to spend a lot of money making an outcome look more/less likely), that's an imperfection vs the many biases in other information sources. tl;dr prediction markets financially penalise providing misleading information, whereas traditional media profit from misleading information
- freejazz 9d agoStill waiting for anyone to point to any good done by prediction markets