This is a linkpost for https://www.metaculus.com/news/2020/01/15/bentham-prize/?invite=DW5XlK
If anybody has any questions about this, I'd be happy to answer as a Metaculus community moderator!
First round of prizes announced. Congratulations to user haven and to our very own AABoyles and PeterHurford!
A second round is scheduled to begin this Saturday, 2020-02-08. New predictors should have a minor advantage in later rounds as the winners will have already exhausted all the intellectual low-hanging fruit. Please join us!
Metaculus is running a small competition right now called the Bentham Prize. The premise is simple: contribute to the discussions of questions on Animal Welfare. The best record of contributions (subjectively assessed by human judges) will win.
If you've been waiting for a reason to start practicing forecasting, this seems as good as any. It's gotten off to a slow start (in part because the Metaculus community has become quite distracted by another matter), so the field is wide open!