Open forecasting strengthens democracies

Updated: 2025.08.20 6M ago 2 sources
Because democracies crowdsource calibrated probability estimates publicly, autocracies misallocate resources. Prediction markets and tournaments harness dispersed knowledge, outcompeting secretive, hierarchical analysis. — Frames information-production advantages as strategic, informing debates on transparency, markets for information, and resilience against authoritarian rivals.

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We Need Elites To Value Adaption
Robin Hanson 2025.08.20 82% relevant
Hanson argues prediction-market governance (futarchy) can’t gain traction because elites reject price signals on moral issues, directly engaging the claim that open, probabilistic forecasting can institutionalize better decisions in democracies.
How to Predict the Future
Santi Ruiz 2025.06.25 100% relevant
The conversation asks which technologies give democracies an advantage, highlighting crowd-based forecasting and judgment improvement.
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