A half-joking forecasting apparatus · v1.0.0 Русский

Comparison

Two columns with the same structure. The point is not to find out which date is "right" but to see how much it depends on what you believe. Assumptions that differ are highlighted.

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Right

AssumptionBaselineDoomsday
To singularity5 years 341 days3 years 10 days
To the first catastrophe15 years 23 days5 years 9 days
Minutes to midnight122.8
Expected deaths by 2050269.8M1.3B
Expected damage by 2050$34T$159T
Horizon doubling time131 d89 d
Real-world friction1.81.0
Singularity threshold50 %50 %
Share of malicious use40 %50 %
Probability of control failure20 %75 %
Mitigation effectiveness45 %10 %
Current wiring into critical systems12 %20 %
Time to deployment saturation12 yr6 yr
Window of vulnerability25 yr60 yr

Cumulative probability: two scenarios overlaid

Colour belongs to the rung, not to the column: a solid and a dashed line of the same colour are the same quantity under different assumptions. Two different colours would read as two different quantities.

Local: Baseline 67.7%, Doomsday 98.8% by 2050. Regional: Baseline 29.9%, Doomsday 81.6% by 2050. Global: Baseline 10.6%, Doomsday 49.6% by 2050

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LocalRegionalGlobalBaselineDoomsday

 

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