It takes them twenty radioactive minutes but they do get an alternate prediction market mechanism back up, except that the algorithmic outputs aren't just simpler, they're being passed through human bettors.  There are such things as people who get pretty good at medicine and pretty good at betting and some of those have now been sworn to grade-three secrecy and brought into the system.

This does mean the new system being rolled out is untested as a whole, so Merrin should please consider herself to be one of a dozen people charged with yelling if the predictions look slightly stinky.

But the recommendations now once again come with quantities-that-actually-mean-something attached to them!

It takes them twenty radioactive minutes but they do get an alternate prediction market mechanism back up, except that the algorithmic outputs aren't just simpler, they're being passed through human bettors.  There are such things as people who get pretty good at medicine and pretty good at betting, and some of those rare folk have now been sworn to grade-three secrecy and brought into the system.

This does mean the new system being rolled out is untested as a whole, so Merrin should please consider herself to be one of a dozen people charged with yelling if the predictions look slightly stinky.

But the recommendations now once again come with quantities-that-actually-mean-something attached to them!