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Comment by tptacek

1 day ago

I mean, I'm talking about things like hurricanes and earthquakes and forest fires, not running death pools.

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3-cheese-sundae  1 day ago

I think I see where you're coming from, but if we're using them to predict hurricanes, it's likely just meteorological data arbitrage. All else seems like random chance; hardly an example of an oracle.

echelon  1 day ago

> forest fires

Fire bug

> earthquakes

Dynamite the fault

> hurricanes

Crazy, but, hear me out: mirrors in space warming the Atlantic, mirrors in Africa warming the atmosphere ("solar power"), Trump wanting to nuke a hurricane, etc.

Pandemic? Go harvest bats and put them in a cage with chickens. You don't even need a molecular bio lab.

Stock market crash? Bombs. Terrorist attacks.

Energy prices? Derail a train carrying fuel cars. Bonus points if it's in a major metro and has a blast radius. Or, I dunno, start a war with Iran.

This could get really bad.

  • AnimalMuppet  1 day ago

    Dynamite the fault? I presume you haven't seriously thought about how much dynamite it would take and how deeply you'd have to plant it.

    Mirrors in space? Again, have you done the math? How many thousands of acres of mirrors would you need, how many rockets would it take, and how much would they cost? Could you make enough on the betting market to break even?