The problems I outline are all caused by the fact that Manifold requires that all value be denominated in a fungible and impersonal currency* that relates probabilities to rewards, and assumes that market forces will resolve irregularities in the distribution of this currency. This assumption is what I am criticising and is a reasonable definition of neoliberal. I neither assert nor believe that bigots participating in the market make it worse (as long as they are diverse bigots who aren’t publicly abusive), I am criticising the lack of thought diversity in the design of the market.
*Yes, I know it has two currencies now which are hard to trade between one direction, but they’re not used in systematically different ways within the site. Some of these criticisms could be alleviated if, say, personal markets produced a currency that can’t be spent on political markets.
The problems I outline are all caused by the fact that Manifold requires that all value be denominated in a fungible and impersonal currency* that relates probabilities to rewards, and assumes that market forces will resolve irregularities in the distribution of this currency. This assumption is what I am criticising and is a reasonable definition of neoliberal. I neither assert nor believe that bigots participating in the market make it worse (as long as they are diverse bigots who aren’t publicly abusive), I am criticising the lack of thought diversity in the design of the market.
*Yes, I know it has two currencies now which are hard to trade between one direction, but they’re not used in systematically different ways within the site. Some of these criticisms could be alleviated if, say, personal markets produced a currency that can’t be spent on political markets.