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zack_amoveo
7y ago
The biggest threat to the environment today is the propaganda. People with a financial interest in our environmentalist policies use propaganda to manipulate us into passing laws to their benefit. Futarchy can save the environment from thes
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zack_amoveo
8y ago
I wrote this blockchain for futarchy and prediction markets. https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/amoveo We use futarchy to make decisions for our own community as well. If you want to learn more about futarchy, or do some
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zack_amoveo
8y ago
Lets consider a game. A coin will be flipped, and we can bet as much money as we want that either heads or tails will win. You will win $100 if the price in this market stays >75% chance of heads for 7 days continuously. So you keep buyi
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zack_amoveo
8y ago
Just have goals that are easily measured. We can easily measure the relative prices of things in the market. If your company's goal is to increase the stock price above some target, that is a metric that is easily measured. So we can m
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zack_amoveo
8y ago
If we consider a more concrete example, you will see that this attack can't happen. We can either elect Trump, or not-Trump as president. Everyone agrees that we want the price of beans to be cheaper. So there are 4 possibilities: 1) e
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zack_amoveo
8y ago
Prediction markets are for helping communities of people make decisions that benefit the community. Whether or not they cause wealth inequality is another question entirely. As long as they help communities come to good decisions, then futa
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zack_amoveo
8y ago
Attempts to manipulate the outcome actually make a prediction market more accurate. Every wrong bet creates a prize for others to come and put the price where it belongs. It is important to compare futarchy against existing alternatives, in