I think stories like these may make the host, Y Combinator, uneasy. They have invested in Dome, a prediction market startup, which was acquired by Polymarket last month. I had a comment to a previous story, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397822, critical of prediction markets which had acquired a fair amount of points and prominence, but ultimately was flagged and removed by moderators. It seemed over the top and I suspected that there might be a YC Polymarket connection, and subsequent searches revealed this to be the case (Dome as mentioned above). Perhaps this comment will be flagged too. Unfortunately, Hacker News might not be the best venue to discuss the dystopian possibilities of prediction markets.