A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym "Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>" typed:
May I suggest that we abandon the term AP, as being too narrowly focused, and use something more academic (looks better in FC's proceedings, anyway) such as Anonymous Betting Pools, or some such?
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Definitely. Also, a legal treatment would be nice (Broiles?). I've posited that ABPs rely on elements of skill rather than chance to avoid being tagged as gambling (e.g., Beat the Psychics). Actually ABP could be viewed as an insurance policy.
Um, as soon as you broaden AP from libertarian fantasy into rigorous hypothesis, it turns out that it _isn't_ _anything_ but Idea Futures/insurance/ABPs/(payee-anonymous) contract markets plus the murderous daydream junk. That is to say, from the rigorous (technical) point of view, AP _IS_ Idea Futures _IS_ ABPs _IS_ contract markets _IS_ insurance. TCMay has mentioned before that AP is nothing new... If you want some scholarly exposition, write up some definitive treatise on AP/IF/I/ABPs/CMs as such so that in the future crackpots who semi-independently come up with the idea won't be able to tie it to political fantasies or other specific would-be-applications in the (un-)popular consciousness. Zooko, whose prose is JYA'ifying in frustration P.S. Allow me to repeat in simple words: "'ASSASSINATION POLITICS' IS NOTHING BUT IDEA FUTURES PLUS CRACKPOT POLITICAL FANTASY!" P.P.S. I am not a cypherpunk. I'm only a guest! I didn't know there was marijuana in the brownies, officer! I didn't PGP sign this message. Nobody saw me do it -- you can't prove anything.