Malone reaches futarchy's split from the voting side: let people with proven forecasting records predict what each action will do, then let voters choose among the predicted results. It is vote on values, bet on beliefs without the bet. He never asks the forecasters to stake anything, and the stake is what makes a forecast costly to fake.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  By dividing the work of democracy in this way, we let the people who are good at making accurate predictions vote on the results various actions would likely produce, and then we let those who know what we want vote for the results we want most.

• groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  The first process would be designed to predict the outcomes of actions we might take, such as increasing taxes or changing labor laws.

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