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Let’s boycott the $400 vendor conference on prediction markets.
I renew my boycott on the $400 vendor conference on prediction markets.
As I said many times, do not pay anything (not even $4) to listen to vendors’ marketing message —and to illuminated academics bought by these vendors.
They all exaggerate the usefulness of the prediction markets.
And beware that phone-booth conference organizer who hides under a female [...]
Robin Hanson should blog more about prediction markets, and spend less time going to moronic vendor conferences.
The general argument is here.
Previously.
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People, don’t pay real money to attend the San Francisco vendor mini-conference on prediction markets.
I have gotten many e-mails from business people asking me whether they should attend the San Francisco vendor mini-conference on prediction markets in January 2009. My advice: Don’t go. Don’t pay a single cent for it.
It is basically a vendor fair. Four software vendors are lined up. (I am told they have to fork over [...]
Beware the “Sarah V. Jones”?
I have received e-mails from some business people interested in prediction market conferences. All told me that they suspect that the e-mail account of a “Sarah V. Jones” [*] is in fact operated by John M. —so as to create the illusion of a team. They base their hypothesis on the similitudes between the vocabularies [...]
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