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Comment by BurningFrog

2 hours ago

One major utility of prediction markets is to get good estimates of probabilities of future events.

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blacksmith_tb  1 hour ago

That's an interesting idea, though of course while we've done that with crop or livestock futures, we seem to have coped pretty well without betting on absolutely everything until now.

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