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Capture the Future, a phone-free Halloweekend game of giant capture the flag in Prospect Park, with quests, intrigue, and plenty of insider trading. The Oracle is not happy about prediction markets taking over the world. It's a closed container: arrive at 7pm sharp at the Flatbush carousel entrance and stay until the game ends at 9pm, then hang loose in the spooky park. Costumes encouraged, but wear something you can run in and bring a headlamp. Paired with Ian Hacking's The Taming of Chance (1990), the philosopher's history of how the 19th century's avalanche of numbers turned fate into statistics. It answers exactly when we traded ambiguous prophecy for quantified probability, and what that did to how we think about people.

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