Thank you for putting this spreadsheet database together! This seemed like a non-trivial amount of work, and it’s pretty useful to have it all in one place. Seeing this spreadsheet made me want:
More consistent questions such that all these people can make comparable predictions
Ability to search and aggregate across these so we can see what the general consensus is on various questions
I thought the 2008 GCR questions were really interesting, and plotted the median estimates here. I was surprised by / interested in:
How many more deaths were expected from wars than other disaster scenarios
For superintelligent AI, most of the probability mass was < 1M deaths, but there was a high probability (5%) on extinction
A natural pandemic was seen as more likely to cause > 1M deaths than an engineered pandemic (although less likely to cause > 1B deaths)
FYI, this is on a log scale. I plotted extinction as > 8B deaths.
(posted a similar comment on the EA forum link, since it seems like people are engaging more with this post there)
Thank you for putting this spreadsheet database together! This seemed like a non-trivial amount of work, and it’s pretty useful to have it all in one place. Seeing this spreadsheet made me want:
More consistent questions such that all these people can make comparable predictions
Ability to search and aggregate across these so we can see what the general consensus is on various questions
I thought the 2008 GCR questions were really interesting, and plotted the median estimates here. I was surprised by / interested in:
How many more deaths were expected from wars than other disaster scenarios
For superintelligent AI, most of the probability mass was < 1M deaths, but there was a high probability (5%) on extinction
A natural pandemic was seen as more likely to cause > 1M deaths than an engineered pandemic (although less likely to cause > 1B deaths)
FYI, this is on a log scale. I plotted extinction as > 8B deaths.
(posted a similar comment on the EA forum link, since it seems like people are engaging more with this post there)