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0 pointsblibble2y ago0 comments

> Also, you could be making tons of money right now! How's that going?

as someone who has spent most of their career working on trading floors watching professional traders do their jobs

I'm perfectly happy staying the hell away from prediction "markets", thank you very much

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I've heard this argument before: you're fully capable of making tons of money, but not particularly interested in proving it for some reason.

blibbleOP2y ago

> I've heard this argument before: you're fully capable of making tons of money, but not particularly interested in proving it for some reason.

you have completely misunderstood

I have zero interest in losing money by "investing" in outcomes of events that are essentially random

because it's not investing, it's gambling

qznc2y ago

It is something of both. Like playing Poker can be gambling, yet one can also play it seriously and systematically earn money.

The difference is that a Poker tournament is just entertainment for the audience. With prediction markets there is the very useful side effect of accurate forecasts.

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