Why do you say we want PMs to “become more than an obscure game for nerds?”
Prediction markets need money as a fuel. The incentive for people to provide correct predictions is to gain money. More money in prediction markets means more people have an incentive to spend their time figuring out the correct answers. Or maybe the same people have an incentive to spend more of their time figuring out things, so they can answer more questions.
I am not really sure on the impact of extra dumb money. Perhaps the extra dumb people need to be told repeatedly that they are wrong? But preferably in a way that doesn’t take their entire salaries away.
Why do you think avoiding insider trading is a disadvantage?
No, I didn’t mean it that way. Actually, the other way round; insider trading is good—well, as long as the insider has a “read-only” access to information.
It becomes different when the insider is incentivize to create chaos and make money on predicting their own chaos most reliably. Like, I wouldn’t want a world where e.g. Trump suddenly nukes a random unimportant place as a way to make money, like in the morning he creates a bet saying “what is the chance that Trump will nuke this irrelevant place of out the blue this evening?” and when people respond “very low”, he says “lol, watch me, losers” and collects the jackpot. (But of course if people responded “very high, this seems like his usual pattern of insider trading”, then he would make money by betting “no, he definitely won’t” and not nuking the random place today. So he makes money either way.)
But the thing I wanted to say in the previous comment was that it seems good to have a rule “noobs can’t make very high bets”, but that would turn against many cases of insider trading, if the insider happens to be a noob.
Prediction markets need money as a fuel. The incentive for people to provide correct predictions is to gain money. More money in prediction markets means more people have an incentive to spend their time figuring out the correct answers. Or maybe the same people have an incentive to spend more of their time figuring out things, so they can answer more questions.
I am not really sure on the impact of extra dumb money. Perhaps the extra dumb people need to be told repeatedly that they are wrong? But preferably in a way that doesn’t take their entire salaries away.
No, I didn’t mean it that way. Actually, the other way round; insider trading is good—well, as long as the insider has a “read-only” access to information.
It becomes different when the insider is incentivize to create chaos and make money on predicting their own chaos most reliably. Like, I wouldn’t want a world where e.g. Trump suddenly nukes a random unimportant place as a way to make money, like in the morning he creates a bet saying “what is the chance that Trump will nuke this irrelevant place of out the blue this evening?” and when people respond “very low”, he says “lol, watch me, losers” and collects the jackpot. (But of course if people responded “very high, this seems like his usual pattern of insider trading”, then he would make money by betting “no, he definitely won’t” and not nuking the random place today. So he makes money either way.)
But the thing I wanted to say in the previous comment was that it seems good to have a rule “noobs can’t make very high bets”, but that would turn against many cases of insider trading, if the insider happens to be a noob.