My baby daughter was born two weeks ago, and in honor of her existence I’m building a list of about 100 technology-related forecasting questions, which will resolve in 5, 10, and 20 years. Questions like “By the time my daughter is 5/10/20 years old, the average US citizen will be able to hail a driverless taxi in most major US cities.” (The idea is, tying it to my daughter’s age will make it more fun and also increase the likelihood that I actually go back and look at it 10 years later.)
I’d love it if the questions were online somewhere so other people could record their answers too. Does this seem like a good idea? Hive mind, I beseech you: Help me spot ways in which this could end badly!
On a more positive note, any suggestions for how to do it? Any expressions of interest in making predictions with me?
Thanks!
EDIT: Now it’s done, though I have yet to import it to Foretold.io it works perfectly fine in spreadsheet form.
I find the conjunction of your decision to have kids and your short AI timelines pretty confusing. The possibilities I can think of are (1) you’re more optimistic than me about AI alignment (but I don’t get this impression from your writings), (2) you think that even a short human life is worth living/net-positive, (3) since you distinguish between the time when humans lose control and the time when catastrophe actually happens, you think this delay will give more years to your child’s life, (4) your decision to have kids was made before your AI timelines became short. Or maybe something else I’m not thinking of? I’m curious to hear your thinking on this.
I love the idea. Some questions and their associated resolution dates may be of interest to the wider community of forecasters, so you could post them to Metaculus. Otherwise you could perhaps persuade the Metaculus admins to create a subforum, similar to ai.metaculus.com, for the other questions to be posted. Since Metaculus already has the subforum functionality, it seems a good idea to extend it in this way (perhaps a user’s subforum could be associated with the corresponding username: e.g. user kokotajlo can post his own questions at kokotajlo.metaculus.com).
My baby daughter was born two weeks ago, and in honor of her existence I’m building a list of about 100 technology-related forecasting questions, which will resolve in 5, 10, and 20 years. Questions like “By the time my daughter is 5/10/20 years old, the average US citizen will be able to hail a driverless taxi in most major US cities.” (The idea is, tying it to my daughter’s age will make it more fun and also increase the likelihood that I actually go back and look at it 10 years later.)
I’d love it if the questions were online somewhere so other people could record their answers too. Does this seem like a good idea? Hive mind, I beseech you: Help me spot ways in which this could end badly!
On a more positive note, any suggestions for how to do it? Any expressions of interest in making predictions with me?
Thanks!
EDIT: Now it’s done, though I have yet to import it to Foretold.io it works perfectly fine in spreadsheet form.
I find the conjunction of your decision to have kids and your short AI timelines pretty confusing. The possibilities I can think of are (1) you’re more optimistic than me about AI alignment (but I don’t get this impression from your writings), (2) you think that even a short human life is worth living/net-positive, (3) since you distinguish between the time when humans lose control and the time when catastrophe actually happens, you think this delay will give more years to your child’s life, (4) your decision to have kids was made before your AI timelines became short. Or maybe something else I’m not thinking of? I’m curious to hear your thinking on this.
4 is correct. :/
Oh :0
I’m interested, and I’d suggest using https://foretold.io for this
I love the idea. Some questions and their associated resolution dates may be of interest to the wider community of forecasters, so you could post them to Metaculus. Otherwise you could perhaps persuade the Metaculus admins to create a subforum, similar to ai.metaculus.com, for the other questions to be posted. Since Metaculus already has the subforum functionality, it seems a good idea to extend it in this way (perhaps a user’s subforum could be associated with the corresponding username: e.g. user kokotajlo can post his own questions at kokotajlo.metaculus.com).