Betting is something that I’d like to do more of. As the LessWrong tag explains, it’s a useful tool to improve your epistemics.
But finding people to bet with is hard. If I’m willing to bet on X with Y odds and I find someone else eager to, it’s probably because they know more than me and I am wrong. So I update my belief and then we can’t bet.
But in some situations it works out with a friend, where there is mutual knowledge that we’re not being unfair to one another, and just genuinely disagree, and we can make a bet. I wonder how I can do this more often. And I wonder if some sort of platform could be built to enable this to happen in a more widespread manner.
Betting is something that I’d like to do more of. As the LessWrong tag explains, it’s a useful tool to improve your epistemics.
But finding people to bet with is hard. If I’m willing to bet on X with Y odds and I find someone else eager to, it’s probably because they know more than me and I am wrong. So I update my belief and then we can’t bet.
But in some situations it works out with a friend, where there is mutual knowledge that we’re not being unfair to one another, and just genuinely disagree, and we can make a bet. I wonder how I can do this more often. And I wonder if some sort of platform could be built to enable this to happen in a more widespread manner.