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avionical

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    Comment #45984845

    Annual $10k prediction contest on a variety of topics. $3k prize pool for the best question submissions.

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    Comment #44162792

    $15,000 for accurate forecasts about the Trump admin.

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    Comment #41306276

    There's calibration, but you can also just see contests where you pit the community aggregate against individual forecasters and see who wins. The Metaculus aggregate is really dom…

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    Comment #39946218

    Open to all in the US, but $12.5k is earmarked for undergrad forecasters

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    Comment #39844737

    Specifically, what autonomous replication and adaptation (ARA) abilities will they possess and how will they fare against industry benchmarks.

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    Comment #39783348

    He's never lost a bet (with academics, researchers, pundits, etc.) for 17 years of public betting. You can see his current open bets here and predict whether he'll win.

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    Comment #39546715

    Unclear, but the predictions appear to be better on things like US elections than prediction markets or 538: https://firstsigma.substack.com/p/midterm-elections-forecast...

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    Comment #36501054

    No, it's also 'AI and Machine Learning,' 'Artificial Intelligence, and 'Forecasting AI Progress.' The list of resolved questions is roughly this: https://www.metaculus.com/question…

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    Comment #36499175

    And you may want to check the weighted Metaculus Prediction if you haven't already.

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    Comment #36499143

    I find it useful for a few different non-coding work tasks, and I don't think I'm unusual there.

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    Comment #36498998

    I wouldn't say AGI in 10 years is predicting an obvious outcome. And the same goes for many other questions on the site.