I'm currently thinking of how impactful forecasting is. I'm interested to hear about situations where crowd-sourced forecasting (like Manifold and Metaculus) has influenced your decisions, or cases where you've seen it change someone else's behavior. Has there been a situation in which, if you had not had access to Manifold or Metaculus, you would've made a worse decision?
Just want to say that I moved from Kyiv to Lviv on Feb 13 /entirely/ thanks to this prediction thread and the Metaculus estimates. (Still in Lviv but leaving Ukraine later today.)
It’s hard to estimate the impact, but at the very least I have saved myself an enormous hassle trying to move all my possessions, finding an apartment in Lviv, etc on very short notice — which would have happened otherwise. Of course, worse outcomes were possible too if things had playe
forecasting is so intractible-in-practice that metaculus doesn't even use it for internal decisions, despite attempting to do so multiple times (source: i was there)
I'm currently thinking of how impactful forecasting is. I'm interested to hear about situations where crowd-sourced forecasting (like Manifold and Metaculus) has influenced your decisions, or cases where you've seen it change someone else's behavior. Has there been a situation in which, if you had not had access to Manifold or Metaculus, you would've made a worse decision?