Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging An Honest Consensus
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Visiting Researcher, The Foresight Institute
P.O. Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
hanson@charon.arc.nasa.gov 510-651-7483
To appear in Social Epistemology, 1992. (version appeared: in Proc. Eighth
Intl. Conf. on Risk and Gambling, London, 7/90.)
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.... After this examination, the idea still seems
plausible and worth further study.
INTRODUCTION
After reviewing the discrepancy between what we want from academic
institutions and what we get from current institutions, a market-based
alternative called "idea futures" is suggested. It is described through
both a set of specific scenarios and a set of detailed procedures. Over
thirty possible problems and objections are examined in detail. Finally, a
development strategy is outlined and the ....
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