Will Scott Alexander endorse a presidential candidate in 2024?
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Only endorsements posted publicly (mainly to ACX) count.

To be clear, this resolves YES if any endorsement is made in the primary or in the general election. Any presidential endorsement (as long as it's not private, or an obvious joke, or otherwise opposed to the obvious spirit of this market) for the 2024 election results in a YES.

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Jan 4, 8:40pm: Will Scott Alexander endorse any presidential candidate in 2024? → Will Scott Alexander endorse a presidential candidate in 2024?

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@Joshua LOL i didn't expect to make 15% profits in a minute

Assuming that SA won't, at separate times, endorse JB and RDS, there's some good arbitrage opportunities available!

Do anti-endorsements resolve YES? (One post recommended "anybody except Trump", and Trump could run again in 2024)

@Mira No. Needs to be an endorsement of a specific candidate.

predicts YES

@ScottLawrence What about multiple candidates? The blog post in question was titled "SSC ENDORSES CLINTON, JOHNSON, OR STEIN"

@EMcNeill I'd resolve NO. (I'm not happy either way, but gotta pick)

@ScottLawrence I definitely would've assumed that would resolve to yes, the market says "any", not "one".

@MichaelLucy I've changed "any" to "a" in hopes of reducing confusion a little bit.

For me, saying "I endorse X or Y or Z" is not really what I mean by "endorse", even though the word "endorse" is used. But I agree it's debatable.

For the record, if he says "I endorse Biden", and then later says "I change my mind, I endorse Trump", that's still a YES---even though more than one candidate was endorsed. (I hope that's what you'd have expected.)

bought Ṁ50 YES

@MichaelLucy wait, in english "any" is a multiple-container term? I have always felt it is used with single objects.

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