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Friday funnies: GPT-5 edition

A bunch of these silly GPT-5 memes popped into my Twitter feed last month, so I thought I would pass one along. Also, happy 11th anniversary to my blog!

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World Truth League Scoring System

🇺🇸Happy 4th of July🇺🇸 Following up on my previous post, Steve Kuhn, myself, and several others have been brainstorming a new type of second-generation information market: the World Truth League. (Here is a link to our 16-page white paper, which … Continue reading →

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World Truth League White Paper

Is it possible to test the truth-values of popular or entrenched conspiracy theories without resorting to censorship? To this end, Steve Kuhn and yours truly have just posted our new “World Truth League White Paper” to SSRN. In brief, we … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Twitter: taxonomy of swords

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Monday music: *Septemberizing Piano*

Check out this enchanting piano version of the classic late 70’s song “September” from the 2023 animated Spanish film Robot Dreams. My daughter Adys Ann and I were finally able to catch this little gem of a movie on the … Continue reading →

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Singapore Sunday

Via one of my favorite specialty blogs, “Remember Singapore“: https://remembersingapore.org Originally called the Hill Street Police Station and Barracks, the majestic six-storey Neoclassical-style colonial building was Singapore’s largest … Old Hill Street Police Station, the Iconic Colourful Landmark by the … Continue reading →

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Steelmanning the World Truth League

Alternative title: Is the World Truth League a Keynesian Beauty Contest? [Revised July 1, 2024] Two of my previous posts (see here and here) have presented a tentative sketch of my colleague and friend Steve Kuhn’s original idea for a … Continue reading →

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Friday funnies: presidential debate bingo card

You’re welcome!

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*The World Truth League*

How can we combat fake news and falsehoods without resorting to censorship? In my previous post, I introduced the general idea of a World Truth League, where teams of prominent experts, public intellectuals, and others would be able to compete … Continue reading →

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How to expand the appeal of information markets (reply to Whitaker & Mazlich, part 2)

My previous post surveyed this powerful critique of information markets made by Nick Whitaker and J. Zachary Mazlish. Among other things, Whitaker and Mazlish identify three types of investors — savers, gamblers, and sharps — and explain why existing information … Continue reading →

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