2024 is drawing to a close, which means it's an opportune time to make predictions about 2025. It's also a great time to put probabilities on those predictions, so we can later prove our calibration (or lack thereof).
We just shipped a LessWrong feature to make this easy. Simply highlight a sentence in your comment, and click the crystal-ball icon on the toolbar to turn it a prediction that everyone (who's logged in) can put probability estimates on. The result will look like this:
Some more probabilities that seem cool to elicit (basically all about AI, because that's what's on my mind, but it would be great to have some less AI focused predictions from others)[1]:
Unless otherwise specified assume all predictions are about the state of the world at midnight PT, Dec 31st 2025. Also some things won't be perfectly operationalized. Assume that I am going to be judging the resolution using my best judgement.
Kinda. There's source code here and you can poke around the API in graphiql. (We don't promise not to change things without warning.) When you get the HTML content of a post/comment it will contain elements that look like <div data-elicit-id="tYHTHHcAdR4W4XzHC">Prediction</div> (the attribute name is a holdover from when we had an offsite integration with Elicit). For example, your prediction "Somebody (possibly Screwtape) builds an integration between Fatebook.io and the LessWrong prediction UI by the end of July 2025" has ID tYHTHHcAdR4W4XzHC... (read more)
I don't think I would want any kind of site-wide scoring, since I explicitly don't want people to have to worry too much about operationalization.
I do think if people keep using the feature, we'll add some way to resolve things, and resolved markets should have some way of showing whose predictions were right, and send people notifications. And maybe we'll also show people's predictions on their profiles at some point.
If the thing really takes off, of course there is a whole world of integrating prediction things more deeply into LW, but that seems somewhat unlikely given Manifold's existence and success.
2024 is drawing to a close, which means it's an opportune time to make predictions about 2025. It's also a great time to put probabilities on those predictions, so we can later prove our calibration (or lack thereof).
We just shipped a LessWrong feature to make this easy. Simply highlight a sentence in your comment, and click the crystal-ball icon on the toolbar to turn it a prediction that everyone (who's logged in) can put probability estimates on. The result will look like this:
Some more probabilities that seem cool to elicit (basically all about AI, because that's what's on my mind, but it would be great to have some less AI focused predictions from others)[1]:
Unless otherwise specified assume all predictions are about the state of the world at midnight PT, Dec 31st 2025. Also some things won't be perfectly operationalized. Assume that I am going to be judging the resolution using my best judgement.