“Open Sourcing Metaculus” by christian, Deger Turan

This is a link post. This is a linkpost for an announcement by Metaculus CEO, Deger Turan, originally published June 5th, 2024. In addition to spreading the word here, we are interested to gather feedback and ideas from the EA community. We make reasoning and coordination tools for the public benefit, and that requires the trust and participation of the wider forecasting community. That's why we’re going open source. GitHub issues, pull requests, and community-sourced forecasts will dictate much of what we build and how. Ultimately, forecasters will benefit from better infrastructure, the Metaculus team will benefit from more idea diversity and greater capacity, and readers will get more accurate aggregates. What's next Metaculus will go open source in Q3. There will be opportunities to audit, critique, and improve on our efforts. Creating a better epistemic environment is a collective endeavor. As part of open-sourcing Metaculus, we’ll help implement our [...] ---Outline:(00:50) What's next(02:00) Why isn’t Metaculus already open source?--- First published: June 25th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/AopJ943xkf4grWL5E/open-sourcing-metaculus --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.