@maugendre@mas.to
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Apr 24, 2026
Eric Maugendre about carbon
@maugendre@mas.to
Data scientist; doing carbon policy research. I calculate emissions of industry and agriculture. Banner is a directed acyclic graph. Avatar shows a white man in a heatwave.
mas.to
Prediction markets function as financial redistribution machines.
A small cohort of traders capture most of the gains, while everyone else supplies the cash and the notion that this is collective intelligence.
“The top 1 per cent of users capture about 84 per cent of all gains, while the top 0.1 per cent capture nearly 60 per cent. In effect, most participants lose money to a small group of sophisticated traders…”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/article-the-investors-profiting-from-prediction-markets-the-top-1-of-course/
#finance #markets #futures #predictionMarkets
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@Photo55__dup_1581@mastodon.social
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Jan 13, 2026
MidgePhoto
@Photo55__dup_1581@mastodon.social
Something professional for a long time, now I take photographs. A bit techie, somewhat political, rather English. I started on another instance which ceased to be comfortable.
mastodon.social
@cstross@wandering.shop
One of the short SF stories in #Nature #Futures described the situation of a simulated or copied rather than wholly artificial machine intelligence, once human, which had been put in a phenomenal number of jars and shaken, and then discarded, of course, over a long period into the future.
Seemed bad.
One of the #basilisks , perhaps.
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