Sungjoo Yoon
Since I was in elementary school I have been obsessed with simulations. Sports simulations, war simulations, civ simulations, etc. History has many lessons. We often take that data for granted. Simulations teach us not to. They expose counterfactuals and path dependence. They sharpen our judgment. Metric uses money to incentivize people to look at, play with, model, and make strategic decisions with that data. In other words, we are a platform for competitive simulations. We build robust world models in civ development, sports management, war games, political races, etc. Players compete against each other to make better decisions with real stakes. Metric is currently a one-person project backed by $5.5m in independent capital. The closest analogue to simulation markets are prediction markets. I actually had the idea for Metric after spending a summer studying prediction markets. At the time I was on the research staff at the Camerer Lab at Caltech, where we examined their fairness and