On Long Bets and their fruition
Posted by Jeremy Tarbush in bets, future, futurism, long
The future is NOW.
And if you need proof of it, there is a site called http://www.longbets.org/ that specializes in futuristic bets. Some of them, already have came to be claimed. All of them go to charity. There is a 200 US Dollar minimum and the charity has to be Federally recognized. My favorite was Ray Kurzweil and Mitchell Kapor betting whether by 2029 the (in)famous Turing Test will have been beaten. The stakes are a donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation or the Kurzweil Foundation. I like those odds. Two of my favorite charities. You can even make your own bets of challenge someone else who made a wager to the air. Check it out....