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The New York Times readers generate hundreds of (smart) comments about Daryl Bem’s precognition paper.

Wow, the psi research field (led by Dean Radin et al.) is as hot as the Sun in Summer. When Science Goes Psychic @ The New York Times.

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Felix Salmon’s hastily written NYT Op-Ed about the Cantor Exchange and MDEX

You will learn nothing. Watch the US House video instead. You will have more facts and more arguments. UPDATE: Mike Giberson has a remark on Felix’s piece.

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New York Times’s Andrew Ross Sorkin discusses his book, “Too Big To Fail”.

More of Andrew Ross Sorkin on Charlie Rose

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CrowdCast in the New York Times

The last 2 paragraphs are impressive. Previously: CrowdCast = Collective Forecasting = Collective Intelligence That Predicts

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Are good blogs driven by author personalities or by well drilled topics?

Justin Wolfers has escaped the Overcoming Bias purge, it seems. Justin Wolfers’s 4 posts (published in 2007) remain archived on what is now Robin Hanson’s QUOTE personal blog UNQUOTE. By contrast, Eliezer Yudkowsky’s posts written for Overcoming Bias now redirect … Continue reading

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Prediction exchanges can now offer the New York Times in their mix.

The New York Times Newswire API

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I talk about the velocity of the prediction markets… and, all of the sudden, the traffic explodes.

Google Analytics of Midas Oracle .ORG: – On the other hand, our competitor, the New York Times (which web-hosts Freakonomics), is in bad shape:

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“Buzzwords are what political wiseguys use to sound all important and knowing in a profession whose prime currency is the illusion of being both. They are like secret passwords for the chattering class, the verbal equivalent of a terrorist fist jab.”

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Freakonomics is the latest in a long series of (usually, serious) bloggers who have misinformed the public by stating that the institutional investor is manipulating the US political election prediction markets.

The anonymous blogger (probably the editor, Annika Mengisen) titles the post, “A New Kind of Campaign Advertising?”, and asks: Will market manipulation for political candidates become the norm as ever-wealthier campaigns try to control the news cycle? No…!!!… John Delaney … Continue reading

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A blogger at the New York Times misinforms the public about the alleged manipulations on the InTrade US political prediction markets.

The blogger titles the post, “Cheating the Spread”. No…!!!… John Delaney said that that firm has been hedging on InTrade —a normal and beneficial activity on the other (larger and more liquid) financial markets. InTrade is not liquid enough to … Continue reading

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