The Exchanges

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered raw tape D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.85

Q Yeah. And, and do you, did you ever like, do you guys talk to them? Are you allowed to talk to these folks that are, that are out there? Um, do you, do you know anything more about this person?

A I mean, for him, we, we, like, went through a compliance process because he's a big trader. We kyc'd him and such. And, you know, while the media was running with this story and they spun it so many different ways, he was just some, like, really wealthy ex-finance French guy. Um, and, you know, it's, it's really, it's, it's difficult to take at face value any of the media narratives, right, where it's, like, You know, they try and paint him as kind of having this like fundamental misunderstanding of how polls work, but he's saying that he has different, different theories of thinking about it, but you got to commend him for putting his money where his mouth is. The thing that irks me the most about, uh, maybe like the hundreds of pieces where they were trying to kind of discredit the accuracy of the free market because someone made a big trade is that polymarket is peer to peer. We're not The house, so to speak, right? Like we're a venue. And on the other side of every Trump trade, you know, when he was, when he's getting Trump exposure, is someone taking Kamala exposure? Is someone on the other side? So, um, the idea that someone is putting a lot of money on Trump and therefore it's skewing the odds, I think it stems from like a fundamental misunderstanding of what Polymarket is, where people assume it's the percentage of bets or it's the percentage of capital on Each outcome.…

AI assessment note: “We kyc'd him and such... he was just some, like, really wealthy ex-finance French guy.”

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