Erik interviews Elliot Olds (@elliot_olds) on this episode. He is a thinker on AI, crypto, economics and prediction markets.

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They talk about:

- The merits of prediction markets, and why they can be thought of as a “meta solution” akin to a generalized AI

- The technical and political hurdles that prediction markets face

- The most prominent arguments against prediction markets and the responses to them

- The idea that markets are eating the world and its implications

- Whether it would be wise to outsource your personal decisions to the crowd

- Governance in crypto

- What it would take to make prediction markets mainstream

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