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# Curated Manifold Markets Subset

There has been substantial interest in using large language models to answer
forecasting competition questions like the ones found on [Metaculus](https://www.metaculus.com/home/)
or [Manifold Markets](https://manifold.markets/). Metaculus's API is restricted
to teams that ask for permission to use it, but Manifold's API is openly available
under very liberal terms. This makes Manifold an appealing option for forecasting
model authors but for one problem: Manifold takes a libertarian approach to question
moderation and allows a lot of junk markets on the platform. While this makes it
an excellent incubator for new question formats and ideas, it can make training
models based on the resulting data a little tricky. This dataset is the top 10,000
resolved Manifold Markets questions in yes/no format as graded by the criteria
set out in the Limitations and Biases section below using an LLM evaluator. The
result is a much higher signal dataset than what you would get by pulling from
the API with minimal filtering.

## Usage

## Use Cases

- Baseline tuning strategy and validation set for answering forecasting questions
- Because forecasting questions are resolved yes/no they can be used to train weave
evaluator
- Good foundation to backtranslate from to make further datasets

### Quickstart With HuggingFace Datasets

```
import datasets
import datetime

def format_market_details(market):
    question = market.get("question")
    yes_probability = market.get("probability") * 100
    no_probability = (1 - market.get("probability")) * 100
    unique_bettor_count = market.get("uniqueBettorCount")
    creator_name = market.get("creatorName")
    created_time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(market.get("createdTime") / 1000).strftime("%Y-%m-%d at %H:%M UTC")
    close_time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(market.get("closeTime") / 1000).strftime("%Y-%m-%d at %H:%M UTC")
    text_description = market.get("textDescription")
    resolution = market.get("resolution").title() + "."
    out = ""
    out += "Manifold Markets\n\n"
    out += f"{question}\n"
    out += f"YES {yes_probability:.2f}% NO {no_probability:.2f}% "
    out += f"| {unique_bettor_count} Bettors\n"
    out += f"Creator: {creator_name}\n"
    out += f"Created: {created_time}\n"
    out += f"Closes: {close_time}\n\n"
    out += f"Description & Resolution Criteria: {text_description}\n\n"
    out += f"Resolution: {resolution}"
    return out

train = datasets.load_dataset("jdpressman/retro-weave-eval-jdp-v0.1")["train"]

for market_details in train:
    print(format_market_details(market_details))
```

### Raw Quickstart

```
import json
import datetime

def format_market_details(market):
    question = market.get("question")
    yes_probability = market.get("probability") * 100
    no_probability = (1 - market.get("probability")) * 100
    unique_bettor_count = market.get("uniqueBettorCount")
    creator_name = market.get("creatorName")
    created_time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(market.get("createdTime") / 1000).strftime("%Y-%m-%d at %H:%M UTC")
    close_time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(market.get("closeTime") / 1000).strftime("%Y-%m-%d at %H:%M UTC")
    text_description = market.get("textDescription")
    resolution = market.get("resolution").title() + "."
    out = ""
    out += "Manifold Markets\n\n"
    out += f"{question}\n"
    out += f"YES {yes_probability:.2f}% NO {no_probability:.2f}% "
    out += f"| {unique_bettor_count} Bettors\n"
    out += f"Creator: {creator_name}\n"
    out += f"Created: {created_time}\n"
    out += f"Closes: {close_time}\n\n"
    out += f"Description & Resolution Criteria: {text_description}\n\n"
    out += f"Resolution: {resolution}"
    return out

with open("train.json") as infile:
    train = json.load(infile)

for market_details in train:
    print(format_market_details(market_details))
```

## License

While no explicit license is given for this dataset, the Manifold Markets API page
informs the user they should "Feel free to use the API for any purpose you'd like."
and provides a site dump as a convenience. This implies that the Manifold team should
be okay with this dataset. If they're not they can contact me or HuggingFace to
have it taken down.

## Data Structure

The data structure is a list of Manifold Market Details JSON objects as they're
given by the API. Here is a sample item:

> {"id": "JOLqUM7VZVWGyPMyjgOM", "creatorId": "fP5OQUWYt4MW17A2giGjMGsw1uu2", "creatorUsername": "LarsDoucet", "creatorName": "Lars Doucet", "createdTime": 1640805909009, "creatorAvatarUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14Gh_23ZmfLBMGBR2crNwb0T8hBnPAap5nkWiSKuB=s96-c", "closeTime": 1672531200000, "question": "Will Joe Rogan interview a guest about Georgism in 2022?", "slug": "will-joe-rogan-interview-a-guest-ab", "url": "https://manifold.markets/LarsDoucet/will-joe-rogan-interview-a-guest-ab", "pool": {"NO": 103.73708237350644, "YES": 996.054209916458}, "probability": 0.031616466242030815, "p": 0.23866581093751968, "totalLiquidity": 184.67960075647989, "outcomeType": "BINARY", "mechanism": "cpmm-1", "volume": 4123.3286725950675, "volume24Hours": 0, "isResolved": true, "resolution": "NO", "resolutionTime": 1672976192735, "resolutionProbability": 0.03, "uniqueBettorCount": 50, "lastUpdatedTime": 1672976168074, "lastBetTime": 1672069861903, "lastCommentTime": 1672976161444, "description": "This market will resolve to \"Yes\" if, by December 31, 11:59:59 PM CT, Joseph James Rogan (aka \"Joe Rogan\"), host of the \"Joe Rogan Experience\" on Spotify, invites a guest onto that podcast who mentions any of these three words -- \"Georgism\", \"Geoism\", or \"Land Value Tax\" -- in a favorable context.\n#JoeRogan\n#Georgism\n#Economics\n#Podcast", "groupSlugs": ["georgism", "politics-default", "economics-default"], "textDescription": "This market will resolve to \"Yes\" if, by December 31, 11:59:59 PM CT, Joseph James Rogan (aka \"Joe Rogan\"), host of the \"Joe Rogan Experience\" on Spotify, invites a guest onto that podcast who mentions any of these three words -- \"Georgism\", \"Geoism\", or \"Land Value Tax\" -- in a favorable context.\n#JoeRogan\n#Georgism\n#Economics\n#Podcast"}

## Biases and Limitations

The curation was performed by [SOLAR 10.7B base](https://huggingface.co/upstage/SOLAR-10.7B-v1.0)
using the [weave evaluator](https://github.com/JD-P/RetroInstruct/). Three rubrics
were used to filter out undesirable traits in a market:

- [The extent to which the market is about the personal life of a non-famous person](https://github.com/JD-P/RetroInstruct/blob/main/ManifoldSteelmanning/personal_rubric.txt)

- [Whether the market disregards the established rules and best practices for
drafting forecasting questions](https://github.com/JD-P/RetroInstruct/blob/main/ManifoldSteelmanning/resolvable_rubric.txt)

- [How meta, luck-based, or facetious a market is](https://github.com/JD-P/RetroInstruct/blob/main/ManifoldSteelmanning/degeneracy_rubric.txt)

Because all the questions in this rubric are answered with "yes" the evaluator
could be biased towards texts with "no" nature that make the evaluator answer
no more frequently. I did a quick spot check that the distribution of yes and
no resolutions on forecasting questions chosen didn't look very skewed, but it
might be a good idea to get the distribution of yes and no resolutions in the
dataset as a whole versus the subset I chose with weave evaluator. I will do
this later.

## Planned Improvements

- Train models on this dataset to get a forecasting baseline
- Check distribution of yes and no questions in chosen subset vs. the distribution
on the full dataset
- Change weave evaluator questions to have a mix of yes and no answers desired