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> The manipulation of weather sensors for profit has a history that long pre-dates prediction markets. Okay, I'm intrigued about what I've missed. Give me more

• IcyWindows 6mo ago
  Example, some countries have laws about operating factories or construction sites in when the outside temperature is too high. So they have artificial underreported those for decades.
  • dlenski 6mo ago
    Yeah, I'm aware of warehouses that underreport their interior temperatures so that they don't have to give their employees adequate ventilation and breaks. Amazon in particular. It's really bad, but it's not quite the same society-pervading incentive for data manipulation.
    • IcyWindows 6mo ago
      It happens at the country and/or city level. I figure that counts as a society.