Will the Unsong musical be good?
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I will create polls on Manifold and the ACX discord.

To address survivorship bias, if the musical never happens, I will ask the creators why not. If they say that they cancelled it because it was going to be too hard to make it any good, I will resolve NO. If it was shelved for any other reason, I will resolve N/A.

THE FINE PRINT:

  • When summing results of multiple polls I will weigh the two equally, not in proportion to # of respondents.

  • I will ask people to rate it from 1-5 stars and resolve YES if there are more 4s and 5s than 1s and 2s.

  • I will sell any shares I own before market close to ensure the polling process is unbiased.

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bought Ṁ350 NO

I'd fill your entire limit order, but I feel that asking the most diehard fans of Scott Alexander if the musical based on his book is "good" might be a tiny bit biased in favor of "yes".

Imho asking normal theatre audiences and SSC-sourced audiences about their opinion on the musical would have a significant difference - at least 15% approval difference.

bought Ṁ10 YES

i'm sure it would still be good without this, but a lot of the best moments of the story are just narrator Aaron going on an insane rant about kabbalistic connections, which i don't think translates well to a non literary medium.

@SemioticRivalry And it's so long! I feel like maybe a one-act about the alternate history of the universe could work? I thought the political interludes were fun

finding lots of kabbalistic connections between things seems like something that it would be very easy to set to music.

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