I concur with your last paragraph, and see it as a special case of rationalist taboo (taboo “AGI”). I’d personally like to see a set of AGI timeline questions on Metaculus where only the definitions differ. I think it would be useful for the same forecasters to see how their timeline predictions vary by definition; I suspect there would be a lot of personal updating to resolve emergent inconsistencies (extrapolating from my own experience, and also from ACX prediction market posts IIRC), and it would be interesting to see how those personal updates behave in the aggregate.
I concur with your last paragraph, and see it as a special case of rationalist taboo (taboo “AGI”). I’d personally like to see a set of AGI timeline questions on Metaculus where only the definitions differ. I think it would be useful for the same forecasters to see how their timeline predictions vary by definition; I suspect there would be a lot of personal updating to resolve emergent inconsistencies (extrapolating from my own experience, and also from ACX prediction market posts IIRC), and it would be interesting to see how those personal updates behave in the aggregate.