COGNITIVE FINANCE: MERGING LLMS AND PREDICTION MARKETS

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LLMs encode the past through training data while prediction markets aggregate beliefs about the future through economic incentives. Together, they form “cognitive finance,” a complete epistemic system. In November 2024, prediction markets called the election before anyone else, with the market pricing Trump at 60% while polls showed a toss-up. This framework positions the combination of AI pattern recognition and market-based forecasting as a powerful new tool for understanding complex systems.