There are prediction markets on a number of questions (most prominently about politics) where people have good reasons besides entertainment value to want to know the answers.

I agree that it's disappointing that so much of it has ended up being sports betting, and would be in favor of targeted regulations to deemphasize that in favor of more socially useful topics.

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mikestorrent 7 hours ago | parent [-]

We have this thing called a "survey"

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Dylan16807 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Less accurate in a lot of situations and costs money to run. It's not a massive loss to use surveys but I see the appeal of prediction markets.

	▲	ameliaquining 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Also surveys don't tell you anything about politics questions other than election outcomes, such as what existing elected officials will do.