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When Prediction Markets Become Hyperstition Machines
At sufficient capital scale, prediction markets shift from aggregating beliefs to manufacturing outcomes through reflexive feedback loops, a pattern documented across 18 Polymarket cases. In the 2024 US presidential election, a single trader pushed Trump odds from evens to 58-42 with $80M spread across four accounts, triggering media amplification and a Wall Street positioning cycle that reinforced the signal on a $3.3B market. A Harvard study identified $143M in aggregate anomalous profit across 210,718 suspicious wallet-market pairs tied to geopolitical events, with Israeli Air Force personnel arrested for using classified strike timing to place bets.
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