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It's paywalled and you not wanting to say anything yourself just smells bad



Indeed. Why not take up Scott Alexander's proposal if there truly is nothing untoward here?

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/mantic-monday-81522

> If someone from Kalshi wants to swear, in so many words, “We promise we put no effort into convincing CFTC to quash PredictIt”, I will believe them (although I would still suspect the CFTC was following a thought process like “now that Kalshi exists it would be embarrassing to let less-regulated markets exist alongside it”). Until then, I think cui bono remains the right question.

Here's your chance, 'tmansour: if you didn't do anything wrong, why not say so yourself?

I have no horse in this race or involvement with either party at all; I'm just interested because this feels like quite the betrayal of the usual ethos we'd expect from YC affiliation, and your responses on the topic so far are evasive enough to be a red flag in and of themselves.




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