Resolves NO at 1K traders, unless YES voters bet 1000-3000 mana each on average (excluding extremes, see rules)
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An experiment in crowd dynamics using bet sizes.

TLDR: The YES side wins if they each bet an average >=1K mana each, excluding YES users that bet >3K or <10 mana (this can be found on the Trades tab or API, not the Positions tab)

This means richer YES users can bet >1000 mana to help cover poorer YES users. But the 3K limitation means they can only 'cover' a limited number of others. If too many people try to take advantage of this generosity by betting YES with less than 1000, the YES team will fail.

If you bet 10-3000 mana YES on this market, you are contributing toward the YES team's average and betting on the outcome.

If you bet 3001 or more mana on this market, you are betting on the outcome, but you are not counted toward the YES team's average. The same applies to YES traders who bet under 10 mana.

If you bet NO you are betting on the outcome of the market but not impacting the YES team's average per person.

I reserve the right to N/A if i deem shenanigans have compromised the integrity of the answers or spirit of the question.

Shares version: /strutheo/resolves-at-1k-traders-to-no-unless

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we can now see how much ppl spent! @SavioMak

@strutheo Their algorithm seems to be plain trash though. Buy M10 YES, and then buy M3 NO, and it shows that you spent M13.

@SavioMak ugh so close

bought Ṁ100 NO

@SavioMak are you sure? I just tested this by buying 10 mana YES and 100 mana NO, and it shows 47 mana spent which makes sense.

never mind. It shows 47 mana for me, but it shows 110 in the positions tab.

Go bet on the "blessed" version of this market: /strutheo/resolves-eod-april-1st-to-no-unless

I started coding a simple script but then encountered a issue: what if someone buys M100 YES at 10% (1000 shares), and then sell 500 shares at 20% to get M100 back, but they still have 500 YES shares in the position? How much mana does that person actually have on the table right now?

@SavioMak

import requests

def main():
    users = {}
    bets = requests.get("https://api.manifold.markets/v0/bets?contractSlug=resolves-no-at-1000-traders-unless").json()
    for bet in bets:
        if bet["amount"] > 0:  # Ignore sell orders
            user_id = bet["userId"]
            sign = 1 if bet["outcome"] == "YES" else -1
            if user_id not in users:
                users[user_id] = sign * bet["amount"]
            else:
                users[user_id] += sign * bet["amount"]
    for user_id in users:
        userinfo = requests.get(f"https://api.manifold.markets/v0/user/by-id/{user_id}").json()
        username = userinfo["username"]
        print(f"{username}: {users[user_id]}")

This ignored sell orders and just sums (total mana spent on YES - total mana spent on NO)

Bayesian: -190

Stralor: -80

SG: 125

Joshua: 10

SavioMak: -496.23334496689125

EliJohnson: 9

acc: -11.192526006967842

Clark: -35

reed: -10

RichieLourie: -15

Bohreromir: 4

SamuelRichardson: -10

Edvirtus: -10

Voidvamp: -20

@SavioMak maybe we can just ignore selling and just look at the one max bet size they make? however you want to resolve it is ok

The ideal way to do this is probably to consider sell orders and buying in opposite direction as proportionally reducing the mana position. (so in my example the person now holds M50 in shares afters selling). This is insanely difficult to code as it requires a complete simulation of the bets, so I won't code this right now. I believe the resolution will be obvious enough that some variation of the code above can show that this market definitely resolves NO.

i hate this change to shares instead of mana, we're going back

here is your 'shares' one: https://manifold.markets/strutheo/resolves-at-1k-traders-to-no-unless

How about changing the close condition to 1k traders or 12 am on April 1st (whichever occurs last)?

@SG I have bet NO based on the expectation that

  1. 1000 traders will take a long time

  2. Coordination of YES traders become significantly more difficult across loong time periods, especially due to abandoned accounts

  3. The lack of a fixed resolution time induces more difficulty to manipulation

  4. The market does not get significantly easier for YES traders as the probability goes down (this is violated from the change from mana to shares)

  5. The meta-level market dynamics based on most people having the same expectation drives the market price down consistently, making me mana over time from loans.

I would expect better (not suggesting large change of resolution criteria that is already coherent) from someone who is in Manifold for a long time, let alone someone in the team.

@SG no why would we change it :(

but i can make another i guess

@SG if you give me 100 mana ill make your special april fools edition , im broke again </3

bought Ṁ100 YES

I love this. But you need a snappier title.

@SG thoughts?

@SG whats a good name @Tumbles

@SG How about "Precarious Positions: Avg Yes is Ṁ1-3k?"

@SG LOL love it

@strutheo give it something with more identity. spitballing:

"Coordinated Optimists vs. Brave Naysayers"

"The Team vs. The Rich"

@Stralor tho "precarious positions" is p decent

@Stralor keep em coming ill edit it later

bought Ṁ50 NO

Q: is this about bet amounts, or shares (position)?

@Stralor the 1k , 3k and 10 values are mana

@strutheo yikes, removing my limits

@strutheo that's really hard to figure out!

@Bayesian 👆

@Bayesian how did you interpret it before?

bought Ṁ100 NO

@Bayesian Disagree but ok

sold Ṁ47 NO

@strutheo shares are usually used, because you can see how many shares someone bought in the positions tab. it's almost impossible without the api to know about amount of mana someone bought shares for, esp if they do a lot of buying and selling

@Bayesian i tried to make it clearer in the description. couldnt i just look at position? that is what i am going off of. i can edit it to say that.

@Bayesian @strutheo I think the game here is to bet that much over time, but I don't see anything about having to hold the shares from YES bets. even a poor user could hit 1k mana bet by buying/selling

@Bayesian every version of the title and description has the word "mana" and no "shares"

@strutheo position = shares != mana bet, thus my question! it's fine either way imo, but mana bet will be a nightmare to figure out without the API

@Stralor ok ill update it to say 'position' everywhere, that is the intention

@strutheo the position tab tells us about amount of shares owned. but if you bought 1000 shares at 30%, you spent 300M. If you bought 1000 YES shares at 10%, you spent 100M. etc. so you can't know from that how much mana someone spent on their shares, unless you look at the entire bet history, parts of which just doesn't display bc it's bugged, so gotta use the api, so ahh

opened a Ṁ10 YES at 2% order

@strutheo a classic whalebait game now. thanks for the clarity!

@Bayesian @Stralor wait no this is NOT a classic whalebait, you are limited !

@strutheo oh there's always a gimmick, doesn't change the fundamental game of chicken underneath 😂

@strutheo @Bayesian @SavioMak uhh i guess we need to use shares now? i hate the dumb math

@strutheo whatever these numbers are

@strutheo "position" or "shares" 👍

opened a Ṁ750 NO at 20% order

@strutheo Disagree. Shares are way easier to get.

@SavioMak ok as long as there is no confusion idc what people call them

@strutheo You should just change the market to use shares (or "payouts"). Otherwise, no one will be able to follow the market.

@SG ok

@SG That's... basically making the YES team getting a boost of 1x to theoretically infinite depending on the market probability??

People don't have to get perfect information, estimating how much mana others spent is perfectly fine. The core complaint I have is that this change from mana to shares practically makes the YES condition 2-10x less costly to reach.

@SavioMak yeah im sorry i didnt get any of this :( i wanted to use mana not shares but i guess that isnt possible

@strutheo Basically, 1 mana is always 1 mana, but 1 mana can be 1 YES share, 10 YES shares, or 100 shares depending on the current market probability.

If this market is fixed at 10%, then YES traders can get 3000 shares by spending only M300.

@strutheo Do you understand it now? I believe it is quite a big change to the resolution criteria and I want it to be reverted.

@SavioMak i am honestly too lazy to check the api or care about this stuff, so im just doing what is easiest haha. i can make another for trades...? if youre willing to help get the data

@SavioMak no i have no clue whts happening idc

@strutheo Alright I commit to writing the code to get the mana position data at 1000 traders if the resolution is not obvious and no one else wrote the code for it.

@SavioMak ok changing this one back and ill make another for them