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2017-04-21The Forecasting Machine

What would each French president mean for stocks? Hypermind’s April 2017 conditional forecasts

Before the first round, Hypermind published different distributions for the CAC 40’s 10 May close under Le Pen, Fillon or Macron, and Mélenchon presidencies.

2016-12-06The Forecasting Machine

Before Cazeneuve’s appointment: a 59% Hypermind observation on 5 December 2016

A recovered chart shows the market weighing who would succeed Manuel Valls, with Cazeneuve at 59% late on December 5. The official appointment followed on December 6.

2016-10-09The Forecasting Machine

Why nomination odds differ from election odds: Trump in 2016

Hypermind’s February 2016 chart made Trump the nomination favourite while favouring a Democratic presidency. The two panels illustrate why forecasts need precise targets.

2016-10-03The Forecasting Machine

Collective intelligence in public: Geneva, Kiel and the World Bank, 2013–2016

Dated archive notes follow Émile Servan-Schreiber from global-risk meetings and the World Bank to public talks on collective intelligence, 2013–2016.

2016-06-01The Forecasting Machine

Hypermind’s 2016: ahead of the betting markets on Trump’s nomination, then one chance in four for Brexit and the White House

Hypermind scored its 2016 Republican nomination forecasts 35–40% better than Betfair, PredictIt and the Iowa Electronic Markets. Months later it gave Brexit and a Trump presidency about one chance in four. What a year of hits and misses says about probabilities.

2016-02-25The Forecasting Machine

Le Figaro profiles Mathieu Laine, Hypermind’s co-founder

A February 2016 clipping shared by Servan-Schreiber identifies Mathieu Laine as his Hypermind co-founder, connecting a portrait of an ideas broker to the venture’s history.

2016-01-18The Forecasting Machine

How collective intelligence works: a Hypermind–Lumenogic explainer in 2016

A January 2016 HUB Institute lecture and a June 2015 Le Point interview introduce collective intelligence and explain how prediction-market prices express probabilities.

2015-06-22The Forecasting Machine

Beyond historical data: the 2015 case for collective forecasting

Émile Servan-Schreiber argued that forecasts need information beyond historical datasets. His 2014 election comparison supplies a concrete test, with limits.

2015-06-02The Forecasting Machine

“Intelligence Is Collective”: Servan-Schreiber at the 2015 Santa Clara conference

A recovered Lumenogic poster and conference programme connect Émile Servan-Schreiber’s general account of intelligence with Hypermind’s election-forecasting research.

2015-05-31The Forecasting Machine

Crowdfunders and experts largely agreed on theatre projects — with different funding thresholds

A 2015 comment about art and expertise provides a starting point for comparing Kickstarter theatre funding with expert evaluations and later project outcomes.

2014-09-06The Forecasting Machine

When crowd forecasting reached the Wall Street Journal

A September 2014 Wall Street Journal clipping prompted Émile Servan-Schreiber to point readers toward Hypermind and the research behind crowd forecasts.

2014-08-20The Forecasting Machine

Hypermind’s 2014 US launch and geopolitical contest

An August 2014 announcement introduced Hypermind’s US version and a €10,000 geopolitical contest, with early research explaining how the market worked.