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Will there be troops or federal agents at US voting booths in 2026 or 2028?

Feb 3, 9:42 AMDec 31, 11:59 PM

21.87%chance

294110933

OptionVotes

YES

11390

5011

Who will win the Scott Alexander 2026 Book Review Contest?

Jun 4, 5:25 AMDec 31, 11:59 PM

3153252

OptionProbability

Breakdown in Pakistan: How Aid Is Eroding Institutions for Collective Action

Storm Of Steel

The Escape Artist

Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong

We Present Television

The Tale of Genji

The History And Adventures Of An Atom

Lee Kuan Yew’s Memoirs

Great And Desperate Cures

A Residence Of 21 Years In The Sandwich Islands

Thomas Urquhart’s Translation Of Rabelais

The Ghost In My Brain

The Epic Of Gilgamesh

The Book of Abraham

Thomas Urquhart's Translation of Rabelais

The Last Temptation of Christ

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution

The Rule of Law

Timefulness

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan

The Knowledge Machine

The Inhabited Island

Aesopian Language in Russian Literature

Bellum Catilinae -- The Catiline Conspiracy

This Is Going To Hurt

Other

Coriolanus

Fear and Trembling

1984 by George Orwell

Mother of Learning

"Mistletoe and Memorandums" by Claude

The Northern Caves

planecrash – E.S. Yudwkosky

World War Z

The Sovereign Child

Siddhartha (1922) by Herman Hesse

The Lever of Riches

Dictator Book Club: Yoweri Museveni’s Sowing The Mustard Seed

The End of History and the Last Man

The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith

The Bible

Invisible Cities / Life: A User's Manual

We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World's Getting Worse

Capitalist Realism

Leviathan

How to Prevent Coups d’État

Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth

A Secular Age

Scenebux: A Novel

Pharmaceutical Freedom: Why Patients Have a Right to Self-Medicate

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, by Sebastian Mallaby

U.S. military or CIA kinetic action against Brazil before end of 2027?

Jun 9, 2:33 PMDec 31, 11:59 PM

8.16%chance

4344500

OptionVotes

YES

128439

102675

Will anyone commit suicide due to fears of anti-aligned AI before 2030?

Mar 25, 3:29 AMJan 1, 5:00 AM

87.54%chance

1247563

OptionVotes

YES

2579

1807

Will there be geopolitical instability over fears of other countries reaching superintelligence? (ACX, AI 2027 #2)

Apr 8, 7:42 PMDec 31, 11:59 PM

41.65%chance

174077

OptionVotes

YES

1184

845

Which MTG cards will be banned from standard before the next early rotation window?

Aug 14, 6:05 PMAug 10, 5:54 PM

102241

OptionProbability

Vivi Ornitier

Proft's Eidetic Memory

Screaming Nemesis

Badgermole Cub

Agatha's Soul Cauldron

Fear of Missing Out

Stock Up

Enduring Curiosity

Superior Spider-Man / Kavaero, Mind-Bitten

Kaito, Bane of Nightmares

100

What is more likely to happen in the russian invasion of Ukraine by 2027

Dec 20, 1:43 AMJan 1, 2:59 AM

19961

OptionProbability

It reaches a stalemate and the south east of Ukraine becomes separate state eventually annexed by russia, Ukraine joins EU and NATO

Ukraine withstands until europe and the US ramp up production and Russia collapses and fragments like the spanish empire before it.

Overall escalation continues in flashpoints around the world, nuclear war renders previous options irrelevant (congratulations if you live in the southern hemisphere, you might live to get an anwser correct!)

The US and europe abandon Ukraine over politics and disagreements, likely NATO and the EU collapse due to folding to military agression

Russia conquers Ukraine and then the rest of europe as they turn around in fear and cowardice, unwilling to fight

If I am cryopreserved, why was I not revived?

Dec 19, 8:12 PMJan 2, 7:59 AM

13396

OptionProbability

Cryopreservation fails to preserve the relevant information at initial preservation attempt

Cryopreservation organization goes bankrupt or otherwise stops preserving people

Chemical processes occur in the preservation stage, destroying information

Humanity goes extinct and in the process the universe enters a state in which I will not be revived

Restoration is possible in principle and at some point there is the capacity to restore but it isn't attempted for some reason. EG too expensive, it's illegal, etc.

After you're cryopreserved, there are breakthroughs that provide {much cheaper, more reliable, more efficient}(permute) methods that make cryo not desirable and eventually businesses built around that collapse

Your brain is intentionally destroyed by someone, some time after preservation, due to fears of it getting captured by misaligned ASI

How many months until the first human commits suicide due to fears from AI?

May 27, 11:29 PMJan 1, 7:59 AM

5.01%chance

5108

OptionProbability

YES

372

306

Will "(Don't fear) the strangelet" make the top fifty posts in LessWrong's 2026 Annual Review?

Jul 5, 5:49 PMFeb 1, 12:00 AM

16.46%chance

385

OptionVotes

YES

1027

849

I'm starting to fear the super AI network, are you ?

Jan 17, 1:33 PM

1100

Should we fear the reaper?

Jan 9, 4:41 AM

220

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Will there be troops or federal agents at US voting booths in 2026 or 2028?

Who will win the Scott Alexander 2026 Book Review Contest?

U.S. military or CIA kinetic action against Brazil before end of 2027?

Will anyone commit suicide due to fears of anti-aligned AI before 2030?

Will there be geopolitical instability over fears of other countries reaching superintelligence? (ACX, AI 2027 #2)

Which MTG cards will be banned from standard before the next early rotation window?

What is more likely to happen in the russian invasion of Ukraine by 2027

If I am cryopreserved, why was I not revived?

How many months until the first human commits suicide due to fears from AI?

Will "(Don't fear) the strangelet" make the top fifty posts in LessWrong's 2026 Annual Review?

I'm starting to fear the super AI network, are you ?

Should we fear the reaper?

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