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⚖ Why this result

fully deterministic — computed from daily closes on the scoring date; nothing below is editable or hand-set

1. Window: 2023-08-18 → 2024-08-18 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
2. The call: ▼ SHORT PYPL (primary play). PYPL rose 14.4% over the window → return (sign flipped for a SHORT) = -14.4% (the call lost money).
3. Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +28.8% → vs SPY = -14.4 − (+28.8) = -43.1% — what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the result uses.
   Direction-only read: +14.4% — did PYPL move the predicted way relative to the market. The two only differ on a SHORT: this call was right about direction relative to the index but still cost money versus holding it.
4. Rule fired:
   · RIGHT — return ≥ +10% AND beat SPY by 5+

   · HALF — return ≥ +5% OR beat SPY at all

   ▶ WRONG — everything else
5. Credit: supporters of a WRONG earn 0 each, opposers the opposite — this feeds the scoreboard. supported: Chamath, Sacks | opposed: Jason | proxy-sensitive: GPN→PARTIAL (+11.5%)

each voice's total push on the score, in conviction points across every mention — supports and opposes · share = % of all mention-driven movement

Chamath 42%

2 scoring events · 66% of moves

+55.6 → net +55.6

Sacks 44%

1 scoring event · 23% of moves

+19.6 → net +19.6

Jason 49%

1 scoring event · 11% of moves

+0.0 / -9.6 → net -9.6

⏳ decay drained -51.2 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one