Are you familiar with Metaculus ? That functions somewhat as a continuously-running prediction contest along similar lines, and it has a lot more than three participants. (Including some people who are active on LW.)
PredictionBook itself has a bunch more than three participants and functions as an always-running contest for calibration, although it’s easy to cheat since it’s possible to make and resolve whatever predictions you want. I also participate in GJ Open, which has an eternally ongoing prediction contest. So there’s stuff out there where people who want to compete on running score can do so.
The objective of the contest was less to bring such an opportunity into existence as to see if it’d incentivise some people who had been “meaning” to practice prediction-making and not gotten to it yet to do so on on one of the platforms, by offering a kind of “reason to get around to it now”; the answer was no, though.
I don’t participate much on Metaculus because for my actual, non-contest prediction-making practice, I tend to favour predictions that resolve within about six weeks, because the longer the time between prediction and resolution, the slower the iteration process on improving calibration; if I predict on 100 things that happen in four years, it takes four years for me to learn if I’m over or under confident at the 90% or so mark, and then another four years for me to learn if my reaction to that was an over or under reaction. Metaculus seems to favour predictions 2-4 or more years out, and requires sticking with private predictions to create your own short term ones in number, which is interesting for getting a crowd read on the future, but doesn’t offer me so much of an opportunity to iterate and improve. It’s a nice project, though.
Are you familiar with Metaculus ? That functions somewhat as a continuously-running prediction contest along similar lines, and it has a lot more than three participants. (Including some people who are active on LW.)
PredictionBook itself has a bunch more than three participants and functions as an always-running contest for calibration, although it’s easy to cheat since it’s possible to make and resolve whatever predictions you want. I also participate in GJ Open, which has an eternally ongoing prediction contest. So there’s stuff out there where people who want to compete on running score can do so.
The objective of the contest was less to bring such an opportunity into existence as to see if it’d incentivise some people who had been “meaning” to practice prediction-making and not gotten to it yet to do so on on one of the platforms, by offering a kind of “reason to get around to it now”; the answer was no, though.
I don’t participate much on Metaculus because for my actual, non-contest prediction-making practice, I tend to favour predictions that resolve within about six weeks, because the longer the time between prediction and resolution, the slower the iteration process on improving calibration; if I predict on 100 things that happen in four years, it takes four years for me to learn if I’m over or under confident at the 90% or so mark, and then another four years for me to learn if my reaction to that was an over or under reaction. Metaculus seems to favour predictions 2-4 or more years out, and requires sticking with private predictions to create your own short term ones in number, which is interesting for getting a crowd read on the future, but doesn’t offer me so much of an opportunity to iterate and improve. It’s a nice project, though.