> The Long Now's mission is to promote long-term thinking. Long Bets in specific promotes clarity and accountability via carefully-stated long-term predictions

> The Long Now's mission is to promote long-term thinking. Long Bets in specific promotes clarity and accountability via carefully-stated long-term predictions and bets. Unfortunately, they completely undermine this when they allow bets/predictions to remain on the website even after a challenger has agreed to take the other side of the bet but the original poster declines to participate. Long Now does't even make a note of this online. > Take, for example, Bet id 362: Note for other: this is a highly unusual example, since it's the most high profile bet on the site.