OK, why is this downvoted? In general, a bet is either a reasonable statement, or an offer of free money.
If your problem with this bet is that it would be impossible to successfully collect the money in the case you win, this is a known problem with a known solution. The player who bets on “not the end of the world” sends some money to the player who bets on “the end of the world”, and later [conditional on this not being the end of the world, implicitly] the second player sends more money back to the first player.
I also don’t understand. I would have understood it if we didn’t have disagreement voting, but if you just disagree with something (but don’t think the author should be disincentivized from saying it), use disagreement votes, not the approval votes.
OK, why is this downvoted? In general, a bet is either a reasonable statement, or an offer of free money.
If your problem with this bet is that it would be impossible to successfully collect the money in the case you win, this is a known problem with a known solution. The player who bets on “not the end of the world” sends some money to the player who bets on “the end of the world”, and later [conditional on this not being the end of the world, implicitly] the second player sends more money back to the first player.
I also don’t understand. I would have understood it if we didn’t have disagreement voting, but if you just disagree with something (but don’t think the author should be disincentivized from saying it), use disagreement votes, not the approval votes.