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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Why don't people who casually say things like this on the other app realize that prediction markets exist? You can have words backed by genuine risk of meaningful personal consequences there, and it's much more peaceful. https://x.com/thinkingwest/status/1830617990192124332
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
It's a macho culture that *wants* to bring back Strong Men dueling in Hard Times to restore Good Times. They don't *want* Weak Men alternatives like prediction markets.
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
Unfortunately, some people don’t want peace, they want attention.
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@binji.eth
if you have time, you should check out Malcolm gladwell’s book “the tipping point,” it. I think it’ll help provide a line of sight on what may be missing.
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@m-j-r.eth
imho, polite violence seemingly doesn't require that much intelligence for the same degree of compulsion. this is all speculation about a time & culture far displaced from living memory, so the interpretation of the crass & impudent would also be much different.
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PhiMarHal
@phimarhal
Financial loss is hardly ever as much a deterrent as physical harm.
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@miroyato
Is it easy to set up a 1 to 1 bet on these prediction markets though? Might just be a UX issue ie less attractive to place a bet on a prediction market and then post a proof and then... Whereas a link to set up a bet duel would be immediately rewarding
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Greg Lang
@designheretic
“The other app” 😂 Love it
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Pat Dimitri
@patdimitri
People that want folks to be in fear of violence at all times are sociopaths.
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lilpanda.wtf
@branigan
polymarket is not available to Americans, still
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@aviationdoctor.eth
Both the author and their reply guys on X are just LARPing and succumbing to a (stereotypically American) idiomatic addiction to guns as a means of resorting every perceived slight, including personal vendettas and cosmic justice. It's clearly unhealthy, but I don't think prediction markets cut it either. The most common divergences of opinion and interpersonal conflicts can't be settled by a binary outcome (grey areas) nor an independent body (like UMA's optimistic oracle); e.g., Polymarket can settle whether Trump will win, not whether he's a better president. Prediction markets also require money, and not everyone can afford to put skin in the game like that. So as much as I dislike the feuding cesspool on X, it's actually a cheapo way of letting people vent their emotions in a (generally) peaceful way. I don't partake in it, I don't even read it, but perhaps it's a societally useful pressure release valve for all the angry people out there to settle scores verbally
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Lauren McDonagh-Pereira
@lampphotography
I respect you, but please, call it by its proper name. It's the dead bird app.
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@kaito
basically this
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borged.eth
@borged.eth
Not an argument for dueling but there is a difference between how things will be and how things ought to be. Many people diverge on norms (ought to be) not necessarily predictions.
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@depressivehacks
Folks unfortunately don't want to resort to peace.
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@anewname
I love that you’re implicitly saying markets are violent 😊
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@mrphu
Eth up now
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@ida
A social network with an embedded prediction market mechanism for every post would be interesting, where you’d have to stake something on everything you say.
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@aaronrferguson
It’s so weird that when people romanticize the past it’s frequently through the lens of nobility, when the owner of that account (and also all of us) would have absolutely been a serf
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Don Luv
@don-luv
Oh, what insight @ThinkingWest exudes. Clearly this wouldn’t incentivise those skilled in violence to defend obvious, yet flattering, lies. Nor to denounce unflattering truths. How much better the world would be if only justice were returned to the point of a sword…
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