Why bet only imaginary money? (wasRe:[extropy-chat]SETI:Firstradiosignal from alien)

[Spike]

> Chris Hibbert
> Subject: Re: Why bet only imaginary money? 
> 
> > Wait a minute, its coming back to me now...Either that or I am
having
> > deja vu, that strange feeling you someti...mz get...
> > 
> > This is such an obvious idea, it is inconceivable that
> > it hasn't already been done.
> > 
> > Whoever is running a real money IFX or knows who is doing
> > so, please contact Brett offline and invite him to join,
> > thanks. 
> 
> I helped run a real money Idea Futures market for members of the 
> Foresight Institute that ran for a couple of years several years
ago...
> The Foresight IF market was shut down when Foresight hired a new 
> Executive Director... Chris

OK I recall now that several years ago there was a meme
on play money IFX that someone would invent a real money
IFX.  The price went up until I noticed it had been
retired at true.  I never heard who was running it.
My memory of that had gone dim.  Growing old is
hell.  But now that I think about it, the opposite,
aging in reverse, might be bad too: you would forget
the stuff that you learned as you grew older.  You would
get less wise, would become poorer in most cases, and I can
imagine going thru puberty in reverse would be a
major letdown.  

spike