Who will win ACX's Everything-except-book review in 2025?
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Dec 31
25%
Alpha School
1.3%
School
6%
Of Mice, Mechanisms, and Dementia
10%
Islamic Geometric Patterns In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
58%
Other

Since the roster may change, I will add an option each friday whenever a new contestant is posted

Note to new users: shares in "Other" get automatically converted whenever a new option is added. So if you buy "Yes" shares you are voting towards all the non-listed competitors and similarly if you buy "No" shares

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@traders since there has been a lot of questions about adding currently known finalists I made a poll to decide whether I should include them all at once. Poll becomes binding after a quorum of 50% + 1 (39 votes) is reached

@BayesianTom I wouldn't add them now. The current dynamics where a new post is released and then you have to rush to read it to bet is quite fun. By keeping everything clustered by other we are limiting incentives for people to go in and read all the articles ahead of time.

Also betting based off of the title alone is pretty dumb. (yes i know we can read them all ahead of time)

@WillJevons the great thing about prediction markets is that if someone is making dumb bets you get to take their money!

Since the roster may change, I will add an option each friday whenever a new contestant is posted

you could add them all now and keep the Other entry for the unannounced finalists. In the unlikely event that one of the listed finalists doesn't make it you can resolve them as no.

There will be around 13 reviews posted overall, so "average" should be something like 7%.

From this post, the expected finalists are:

• Alpha School

• School (Review 1 by DK) (promoted from "honorable mention")

• Dementia

• Islamic Geometric Patterns

• Joan of Arc

• Mashed Potatoes

• Men

• Ollantay

• Phase I Research

• Synaptic Plasticity

• The ACX Commentariat

• The Internet That Might Have Been

• The Russo-Ukrainian War

Honorable Mentions (some of which might get promoted) are at least

• Bishop's Castle

• Bukele

• Elon Musk's Algorithm

• JFK Conspiracies

• Martial Arts

• Miniatur Wunderland

• Watergate

All the reviews are linked here.

What's the point in bidding up the price of "other?" It's the most likely outcome right now, but that's just because most of the entries haven't been posted yet.

bought Ṁ1,250 Alpha School NO

@AndrewMaxwell Shares of Other get split into to shares of all future answers added to the market.