Started by Yuki Tanabe (@yuki_reads) ·
the Pentagon's 'terrorism futures' market lasted about a day in public
In 2003 DARPA planned a market where traders would bet on political and military events in the Middle East. Once a couple of senators described it as betting on terrorism, it was cancelled the next day.
6 sources · 41 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “darpa policy analysis market 2003”
- Ended at
- Futarchy
The Trail
- “darpa policy analysis market 2003” (google.com)
- Policy Analysis Market (en.wikipedia.org)
- Information Awareness Office (en.wikipedia.org)
- John Poindexter (en.wikipedia.org)
- Robin Hanson (en.wikipedia.org)
one of the economists behind it
- Futarchy (en.wikipedia.org)
his bigger idea: 'vote on values, bet on beliefs'
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