Clearly, people with positions in those markets should bet NO here to hedge.

@osmarks I'm betting YES to hedge all my NO positions.

Somebody can write a script:

If I do not regularly login into the program, resolve these market to YES. If I do regularly login, do nothing (because I'm an alive human).

Does not need extraterrestrials nor survivors for YES resolution.

@KongoLandwalker never mind the apocalypse, that assumes the script keeps running through normal times

@Fedor also implies a ton of wrong resolutions if only the script user dies, incapacitated, or just got bored of the site

@deagol such scripts already exist for other purposes. They just use not one but several people to login to prevent triggering the event.

Yes this is way better than the current markets! And Manifold can always fix a false Yes resolution

@ahalekelly I don't think it makes any difference. The fundamental issue is not whether the code to resolve the market and hand out mana runs. The fundamental issue is that if we are extinct, we won't be around to care about mana at all.

@jack i would make sure (eg. through smart contract or similar tech/legal trust structure) that the AI who eventually inherits my mana and manifold account does care about it.