Because elites reject price signals on sacred issues, market-guided governance stalls. Futarchy needs an elite rebrand of 'adaptiveness' to avoid moral vetoes.
— Explains why prediction-market governance and rigorous forecasting won’t scale without a parallel elite norms shift, shaping feasibility of technocratic reforms across security, health, and economic policy.
Robin Hanson
2025.08.20
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The article argues LLMs and the Policy Analysis Market scandal show elites denounce prices when they conflict with shared morals, forcing a pro-adaptation value shift for futarchy to work.
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