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foxglaciertoday at 3:11 AM1 replyview on HN

Also hard to be a climate change doomer when you're gambling on it. Don't forget popular opinions can be extreme and wrong too. Prediction markets sound like a way to cut through the social media hysteria, although we already have insurance companies with money on the line about that and perhaps they're doing a good enough job of predicting the effects of climate change.


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Buttons840today at 3:34 AM

Good points. I also realized climate change is too slow for prediction markets. Nobody wants to bet on the average temperature in 2036.