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		idiotsecant 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market ins... Of course. The point is not to make individual players money (that does sometimes happen as a side effect) it's to leverage their greed to find truth.

ambicapter 14 days ago [–]

Except it's not "truth" as much as it is whatever has the most financial incentive to happen.

idiotsecant 13 days ago | [–]

To some approximation, the two are the same.

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