August 5, 2018
This episode features physicist Anthony Aguirre discussing Metaculus, the site he created to crowd-source accurate predictions about science and technology. For example, will SpaceX land on Mars by 2030? Anthony and Julia discuss details such as: why it’s useful to have predictions on questions like these, how to measure Metaculus’ accuracy, why Anthony chose not to run it like a traditional prediction market, and how to design incentives to reward good forecasters.