Better Markets
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Better Markets is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between October 18, 2022 and August 01, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “a group called Better Markets”. It most often appears alongside Aristotle Inc, CFTC, Kalshi.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: October 18, 2022
- Last seen: August 01, 2023
Appears In
Related Pages
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- Aristotle Inc (2 shared issues)
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- CFTC (2 shared issues)
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- Kalshi (2 shared issues)
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- Manifold (2 shared issues)
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- Manifold Markets (2 shared issues)
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- Metaculus (2 shared issues)
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- PredictIt (2 shared issues)
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- Russia (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- Ukraine (2 shared issues)
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- 2024 elections (1 shared issues)
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- 5 U.S.C. §§ 558, 706 (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
I couldn’t find too many comments in opposition, but one came from a group called Better Markets, which wrote a very long argument saying this was too close to gambling and was a further step towards “the deeply troubling trend toward the ’gamification’ and ‘retailization’ of finance.” Also, frequent prediction market player Avraham Eisenberg wrote a not very serious comment which may have been motivated by spite toward Kalshi, or him just not being a very serious person.
Inline links: Better Markets, a not very serious comment
Most comments seemed to be anti-Kalshi. Some big anti-market and anti-gambling organizations urged their audiences to participate, especially a group called Better Markets. Most of these people’s talking points involved gambling on elections being a threat to democracy: what if it incentivized people to rig elections?
Inline links: Better Markets