Resolves positively if the @realdonaldtrump account tweets with Trump's implied approval, even if the tweet was written by an intern. Does not resolve positively if the account is hacked or tweets apparently without Trump's approval.
This is question #21 in the Astral Codex Ten 2023 Prediction Contest. The contest rules and full list of questions are available here. Market will resolve according to Scott Alexander’s judgment, as given through future posts on Astral Codex Ten.
@ZviMowshowitz Usually prediction markets have the opposite problem. A welcome reversal.
I expect the market to resolve soon. Past markets by ACXBot have.
The standard procedure has been: Resolve when the event happens, and in the (extraordinarily unlikely) event that Scott rules differently, re-resolve
Act now, check later. That's how it usually goes. Don't want to be left behind, while checking to see if source is credible.
Trump hasn't made any comments or anything about any desire to use twitter. rather, he's talked about how he's on truthsocial instead. Yet, people still bet Yes here.
@higherLEVELING
> Act now, check later.
That's my motto along with "buy high, sell low".
@ErlendLken I'm calling this fake. Provide an actual link and I'll apologize.
Edit: I searched his truth social for the last day and didn't see this post.
is there a reason this market cratered?
oh just one guy nvm
@KongoLandwalker While the market's resolution hinges on Scott Alexander's interpretation, the most reasonable interpretation is that X posts ARE tweets. If Donald Trump changed his name, should this market resolve to NO? If dictionaries change all the definitions of the word 'one' to '2', should the market resolve NO if only one tweet was posted?
@JamesColiar "if donald trump changes name". I would make another analogy: if Donald Trump is dead, but his finger falls on the send button, is Donald Trump making the action?
Some entities are not continuous in time. As long as i am alive, i am considered continuous, even though all my molecules get regularly replaced.
Some entities are not. Change 1 line in constitution or quickly replace 10 gov positions (coup) and the country might be considered a new entity by others.
Twitter (as a mix of community and tech) lost all his spiritual features i knew him for. Now it is a milking machine. I consider the entity dead.
@KongoLandwalker well, they still have exclusive legal right to all historical tweets.
@KongoLandwalker well I never tweet. My dead skin cells are actually the ones pushing the button, right before they flake off.