This sounds like a legitimately hard or impossible technical problem. (Cashing out most statements into empirical claims on which one could bet.). It's difficult for humans to do; I don't think it's obvious that it *can* be automated.https://twitter.com/RokoMijicUK/status/1236360643822997505 …
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You could of course have a text editor which, after each sentence, prompts you with "could you state this in the form of a bet?" and gives a standard bet format -- "by [time], we will/will-not observe [foo], conditional on [bar], as measured by [third-party source of info]"
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for example, if you asked me to restate the past tweet in the form of an empirical prediction: "by 2022, we will not observe an automated rewriting tool like this, conditional on at least $1M of person-hours being devoted to it, as measured by a Google search for such tools"
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Once you have a prediction, of course, you can lay odds on it, and afaik there's already adequate software for setting odds and finding someone to take the other side of bets.
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