Forecasting Newsletter: June 2020.

By NunoSempere @ 2020-07-01T09:32 (+45)

Forecasting Newsletter. June 2020.

Highlights

  1. Facebook launches Forecast, a community for crowdsourced predictions.
  2. Foretell, a forecasting tournament by the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, is now open.
  3. A Preliminary Look at Metaculus and Expert Forecasts: Metaculus forecasters do better.

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Index

In the News.

Prediction Markets & Forecasting platforms.

Ordered in subjective order of importance:

Negative examples.

Hard to categorize.

Long Content.

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"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken." Oliver Cromwell



Pablo_Stafforini @ 2020-07-01T22:38 (+10)

A new, Ethereum-based prediction market has launched: Polymarket. It even features a question about Slate Star Codex and the New York Times. I tried it and it was pretty easy to set up. (I have no affiliation or with the owner.)

Peter_Hurford @ 2020-07-01T13:43 (+1)

FYI - Your link to Foretell is broken

NunoSempere @ 2020-07-01T13:51 (+1)

Fixed.