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In an article in Harper's magazine and an interview on The Gray Area podcast, Finn Brunton pointed out that current prediction markets are more like 'gambling establishments in beautified form', and their development trajectory is closer to Timothy May's 'trust-destroying machine' than to Robin Hanson's 'collective intelligence dashboard'.
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10/16/2026
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