Category Archives: Collective Decision Making

Larry Page on decision making — [VIDEO]

One of the interesting things that we’ve noticed is that companies correlate on decision making and speed of decision making. There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions. I … Continue reading

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After years of pretending being a prediction market consultant, Robin Hanson finally confesses nobody has ever cared about his stuff. — [LINK]

The Emperor of enterprise prediction markets is naked. Robin Hanson: I can confirm that this disinterest is real. For example, when I try to sell firms on internal prediction markets wherein employees forecast things like sales and project completion dates, … Continue reading

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Collective Forecasting a la Robin Hanson – [SLIDES]

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CrowdCast’s Leslie Fine talks about “the cloud and the crowd”.

22 into.

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Robin Hanson bores his students with Futarchy. –> He is asked to apply his concept to Himself.

A commenter on his blog (Bill): Why not experiment at GMU? Have the students run the university using Futarchy principals. They pick the goals, then you use markets. You can even start on a smaller scale, a class. Report back … Continue reading

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Robin Hanson’s blah blah on futarchy (using conditional prediction markets to govern a country) — [VIDEO]

Robin Hanson debates a Mencius Moldbug on prediction markets, decision markets, and… futarchy: Foresight 2010 debate: Futarchy from Monica Anderson on Vimeo. Download this post to watch the video —if your feed reader does not show it to you. Who … Continue reading

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Can a conditional prediction market play chess?

The Hanson–Moldbug debate

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Debate is raging between Robin Hanson and the futarchy critics

- Robin Hanson comments on Paul Hewitt’s blog. – Paul Hewitt comments on Eric Crampton’s blog. – Paul Hewitt comments on Robin Hanson’s blog. Many exchanges with Robin Hanson. Read it all. – Paul Hewitt: [...] My point is that … Continue reading

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Jim Rogers: How to make millions on the financial markets without using Robin Hanson’s collective forecasting or James Surowiecki’s wisdom of crowds

Jim Rogers in the FT: What is the secret of your success? As I was not smarter than most people, I was willing to work harder than most. I was prepared to examine conventional wisdom. If everyone thinks one way, … Continue reading

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Robin, just because we don’t have another method of accurately predicting an outcome doesn’t mean we have to be so appreciative when a prediction market comes up with a forecast just before the outcome is revealed.

- First missile —just an appetizer. – Second missile: A critical review of Robin Hanson’s paper, “A Manipulator Can Aid Prediction Market Accuracy”.

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