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Will the MIT shooter be connected with the Brown shooter?
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resolved Dec 20
Resolved
YES

Resolves YES if any meaningful connection between the two incidents emerges (including being the same person).

I will not bet in this market, so as to remain objective over what constitutes a "connection".

-Things like correspondence between the two shooters or common membership in an organization would probably be sufficient.

-Things like "grew up in the same state" or "are from similar cultural milieus" would probably not be sufficient.

-A reference to the other shooting in a manifesto by one of the shooters would not on its own be sufficient for a YES resolution, although if they're, say, in the same online milieu and knew each other parasocially, that might be enough for a YES resolution.

-If there's some unhinged gray area I reserve the right to resolve to 50% or another PROB, according to my best judgment.

Inspired by Laura Loomer, of all people: https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/2001022435512963334

Resolves as to my best judgment at the end of March. Does not require conviction / confession / >99% confidence that the suspect is accurate, etc.

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This resolves YES. At the very least these are “connected” and almost certainly the same person was solely responsible for both:

https://x.com/atfboston/status/2002164390322405807?s=46&t=62uT9IruD1-YP-SHFkVEPg

bought Ṁ1,000 YES

Is this another case of vaporized liquidity when subsidizing? Seems the liquidity is less than 1.1k shown

sold Ṁ0 NO

@Mochi I don't think so or see why it would be; that's only a multiple choice or set market thing, as far as I know. What makes you ask?

@EvanDaniel when you bid up a market with 1k liquidity from say 96% to 99% it takes 5k mana. But in this market it only takes 1k ish mana to go from 96% to 99%. I noticed this when comparing this market to Bayesian’s market when they were both at 96%.

@EvanDaniel another comparison, this market goes to 43% (50%+ movement) if I were to buy no, but this other market only moves by 26% if I were to bet 500 mana.

@Mochi look at the limit orders in the order book…

@bens well there’s more examples with no limit orders.

@Mochi different p value. The liquidity was added while the price was low, so the p value is low. It provides more elasticity near the p value for the same total liquidity, and less fat away from it.

@EvanDaniel interesting, that makes sense. Thanks

Ya I’m gonna leave this open because crazier things have happened but this looks extremely likely to resolve YES.

haven't verified whether this reporting is true but if true it's a pretty strong connection

bought Ṁ150 YES

Former Physics PhD

bought Ṁ500 YES

Dead suspect in Brown shooting is a Portuguese national. That is a more definitive connection than the rental car.

Prediction markets: they freaking... ummm.... work actually ?!

it was at 8% earlier, so...

@bens excellent market btw

This seems like one of the markets where one user just keeps buying No shares relentlessly and then in a few months everyone says "well that was obvious" and the well calibrated high net worth individual says "just another day in the volatility mines"

@Eliza I don’t see how it could be a coincidence that the same rental car would be seen at both shooting locations as reported by NYT. New England is small but not that small.

bought Ṁ50 NO

@DevdaDavid Same car or just same make and model? iirc not confirmed same plates

@Eliza Polymarket spiked to like 90% about half an hour ago?

@bens that's how the volatility mines work! You win some, you lose some.

whoaaaah! Prediction markets ftw, this is potentially breaking news I hadn't seen earlier.

bought Ṁ500 YES

My read on this case is that local authorities are connecting the same make and model rental car to both shooting locations, as improbable as that seems. At least that’s how I’m interpreting relevant NYT updates.

https://manifold.markets/Bayesian/brown-and-mit-shooters-confirmed-to?r=YmVucw
Bayesian's polymarket clone on whether they'll be confirmed to be the same person

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