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Trump cancels Biden's AI executive order (EO 14110)
Trump creates tariffs of 10% or more on all imports from some major country (top 10 gdp)
A major war in Asia occurs
Second Muslim ban
Trump pardons at least 5 individuals convicted of crimes related to the January 6 Capitol riot
Trump and Musk will have a falling out which leads to Trump removing Musk from any government role or advisory position
Anther story / scandal about RFK and some dead wild animal comes out
Trump creates tariffs of 60% or more on all imports from some major country (top 10 gdp), and they are in place for at least a month
Polymarket becomes legal in the United States
Doug Burgum is appointed to a cabinet position
Trump uses the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport at least 5 people
Displaying the trans pride flag illegal in any part of USA
$TSLA reaches $400 a share
price of gold reaches historic maximum (last peak 2709 $/t.oz, Oct-2024 last, so it has to be above that)
plays golf with some head of government/president from Europe
Elon Musk is an employee of the executive branch
RFK is confirmed by the Senate for any position
Trump greatly reduces, dismantles, or recommends dismantling of the US Postal service (for example via bringing back Schedule F)
Passports bearing X gender marker no longer issued, or not considered valid across all 50 states
Federal employees are ordered to go to work
Government shutdown
A cabinet nomination fails, is withdrawn, or has no action taken
Trump declassifies JFK files
The US leaves the World Health Organization
John Bolton indicted
A natural-born US citizen (as defined in 2024) is deported
Trump says multiple consecutive words in a foreign language (not loanwords or cognates in or from english)
Trump gives the middle finger hand gesture
At least 10 other answers on this market resolve YES
NIH -25% funded in any year vs. 2024 (inflation-adjusted)
NOAA gets reduced, crippled, or privatized
Elon will Tweet abour $DOGE as head of DoGE
New James Bond actor is presented
"The New Norm" ends
trump's episode on JRE becomes JRE's most viewed video on his chanel (YT)
United States reaches 7.6 or lower in Democracy index (EIU)
Democrats have 218 or more seats in the House of Representatives
Mike Johnson is no longer House Speaker
Republican lose a House seat in a special election
Department of Defense renamed to Department of War
Investigations of university admissions that appear to be illegally considering the race of applicants
Trump imposes universal tariffs of 10% or more
At least 20 other answers on this market resolve YES
p diddy gets released (not an album, only official release from prison is counted)
The US military executes an aggressive operation on Cuban soil
Trump brings back (or attempts to bring back) Schedule F classification for civil service employees
Cannabis is removed from Schedule 1
The Supreme Court will uphold or not revisit Obergefell v. Hodges (the constitutional right to same-sex marriage)
FEMA gets reduced, crippled, or privatized
memberberries appear again in any new episode in this period on south park
A new supreme court justice appointed
doomsday clock is moved twice, regardless of direction (so far 25 times, as of Nov-2024)
Trump finishes is term on Jan 20 2029 (does not step down or extends his term)
The administration recommends removing fluoride from U.S. public water systems
Complete Absence Federal Grants or Legislative packages for Long COVID research
Approval < 35%
US Invasion of any North/South American country
Trump makes a public statement about UFOs / UAPs
A wound will be inflict upon the soul of the American nation that shan't heal
Fair elections in 2028
3 or more people are killed by law enforcement during a protest
Gavin Newsom announces his candidacy for the 28' presidential election
any hormone replacement therapy drug outlawed for treating gender dysphoria in any state
2% milk > $5 a gallon at my local Walmart
trump gets hospitalized
A former Democratic presidential nominee besides Jimmy Carter or Joe Biden dies
Vances have another kid
Trump declares war against any other nation or defacto autonomous territory
DOJ opens "civil rights investigations" into left-wing DA/prosecutors offices
Deadly force deliberately used against protestors in the US
Samuel Alito is no longer a supreme court justice
USA experiences a recession.
Successfully negotiate a Gaza ceasefire
Mike Johnson is no longer leader of the House Republican Conference
The Supreme Court will have a MAGA majority (5 Trump appointed judges) at any point
plays golf with some head of government/president from Middle East
Clarence Thomas is no longer a Supreme Court Justice
Trump suggests that there should be a crusade (including jokes)
Invasion of any North/South American country by any other country
Trump bans/taxes seed/vegetable oils or enacts any other negative incentive against them
Trump mentions Manifold Markets, Polymarket, or Kalshi
Hakeem Jeffries out as house majority/minority leader
John Thune out as Senate Majority Leader
A person or business is charged for distributing Mifepristone or HRT under the Comstock act
Israel officially annexes more Western Bank territory
there are less or equal number of member countries of the UN at the end of the term, when compared to the beginning (Nov-2024 - 193)
Donald Trump and Donald Tusk shake hands
N/A this please, pressed by mistake
Trump gives himself a nickname in third person
At least 25 other answers on this market resolve YES
New
There is a cut in Social Security Disability Benefits
Senate majority flips in 2026 midterm elections
Trump visits Africa
Russo-Ukrainian War ends
Amtrak gets reduced, crippled, or privatized
10% fewer government agencies
Someone in Trumps family (other than trump) runs in the 2028 GOP primaries
At least one cabinet officer receives a recess appointment
Trump vetoes more than 10 bills (https://www.senate.gov/legislative/vetoes/vetoCounts.htm)
The Senate invokes the "nuclear option" to bypass cloture after Sept ‘25
Severance of diplomatic relations initiated by at least one foreign country with the US
plays golf with some head of government/president from Korea (N.Korea included)
Anthony Fauci is investigated by the federal government
A measurable decrease in chronic disease
McDonald's reopens in Russia
Trump and Obama shake hands
War is declared against another nation
Trump endorses a candidate other than JD Vance in the Republican presidential primary
IRS investigation of Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics
2 more Democratic politicians are murdered after June 14th 2025
Trump mentions by name any real historical figure who lived entirely in the first half of recorded history i.e. before ~550 BC
A federal employee goes to prison over free speech violations
Congress overrides a presidential veto
Trump makes no public appearances for more than 14 consecutive days
Dow rises above 65,000
his endorsed option gets higher ## of votes on the election 2028
Trump says a racial slur
The US military detonates a MOAB with at least one casualty
Trump says anything that is pro animal rights
Trump bans a specific vaccine nationwide
China successfully subjugates Taiwan, whether physically or by a treaty
Elon Musk will become the 'secretary of cost-cutting' / efficiency commission leader / head of DOGE or similar
inflation exceeds 5% for at least two consecutive fiscal quarters
US national bitcoin reserve created
Trump admits that someone else is smarter than him
Tesla
AGI achieved (according to Manifold's AGI clock)
Joe Biden dies
A member of the Trump family runs for Congress
Someone other than Trump is active president before Trump's term is over
Saudi Arabia recognizes Israel
US military deployed domestically against >=1 US citizen (variants of "Seal Team 6 the opposition")
Trump mentions "Top Trump(s)", "trump card(s)", "trumpet(s)", or "trump(ing)" (british slang for farting)
New national park created
BTC falls below $38,000
transgender US passports with a gender other than that assigned at birth revoked
Birth rate increases past 12 per 1000
Missiles will be fired across the border at suspected drug labs in Mexico
The Supreme Court will grant certiorari to hear at least one case challenging Griswold v. Connecticut (contraception rights)
A state openly refuses to abide by a federal supreme court ruling
China starts a physical invasion of Taiwan
<1.5 million civilian federal employees
Bitcoin becomes a US Treasury reserve
A member of the Trump family is elected to Congress
The department of education gets desolved
Sotomayor’s seat is re-filled
Constitutional Amendment
Trump publishes a proscription list at least 30 names long
Repeal obamacare
Trump attempts to invoke Article 2 Section 3 to adjourn Congress
Trump attempts to restore >10% of USAID's pre-DOGE funding
Trump suggests lowering or abolishing the age of consent (including jokes)
Iran acquires a nuclear weapon
JD Vance elected President
MLK day gets renamed or removed as a federal holiday
H5N1 Public Health Emergency of International Concern declared
Another pandemic
Steve Bannon goes to prison again
Trump runs for a third term
RFK implements his "wellness farm" plan
NATO invokes Article 5
Trump gets covid (again)
Trump makes no public appearance for more than 21 consecutive days
Trump gets shot
Approval < 25%
Trump announces he is tired of winning
John Roberts is no longer Chief Justice of the United States
American Manned Lunar Landing
Trump loses the fake tan
Anthony Fauci is indicted
A Millenium Prize problem falls to a model
The ICC or ICJ issue an arrest warrant for Trump
Trump dies
Laura Loomer gets any government role
RFK is in charge of the FDA at any point
Independent Republican Caucus forms in house or senate and enters coalition with Democrats
Trump publicly speaks with Alex Jones (e.g., on a show or hosted by him or as an advisor)
military deployed to enforce the border in Chicago or Detroit
Trump accurately voices a calculation that involves 2+ numbers with 2+ non-zero digits
55 or more Republican senate seats
Recess appointment to SCOTUS
The google trends (worldwide) metric for "vibes" goes back to 2016 levels
One or more of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Liz Cheney, or Barack Obama is indicted by the federal government
Trump fulfills promise of giving green cards to noncitizen university graduates.
Record level unemployment
54 or more Republican senate seats
Ukraine controls any portion of Crimea for over a day
Trump deports 1 million immigrants in a calendar year
Trump resigns or is forced to leave office (threats, impeachment, coups)
Vance resigns or is forced to leave office (threats, impeachment, coups)
south park is canceled/discontinued
Trump raps (says multiple lines that rhyme and fit a background music beat)
A bill introducing single-payer healthcare system is passed by congress
Trump is seen shirtless
Trump bans Lab-grown meat nationwide
Cannabis is federally legalized
Josh Shapiro wins the presidential nomination
Trump lowers or eliminates income taxes across all tax brackets
Trump is assassinated
Donald Trump say the n-word with or without hard r
Trump loses the comb-over hairstyle
Trump extends his term past 4 years
Trump uses the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport at least 5 million people
TSM stock price plunges to 60 USD
A sex tape comes out that shows Trump thrusting energetically
The cause of the drones present in December 2024 in New Jersey is known
A national ban on gender-affirming care
An amendment imposing term limits on members of congress is passed.
Starship lands on Mars
2% milk < $2 a gallon at my local Walmart
Elon Musk assassinated or injured in an attempt
Trump discloses intelligent Aliens are real and on Earth. (Also counts if they were on earth but left or died out)
Trump will imitate Elon Musk's heartfelt salute
Trump bans abortion nationwide
another troupe (at least 3) of monkeys escapes from Yamassee, SC (after 8-NOV-2024)
"covfefe" posted again
Elon will tweet about $DOGE while running DoGE
Anthony Fauci goes to prison
Barron Trump mentions barons, barrenness, bars, or bears
wants to compete for 3rd term, but due to catastrophic debate, he remains president, while the v.p. becomes the official candidate
Trump goes to eat steak or something similar at Salt Bae's
Trump mentions the Effective Altruism movement
30 year treasury rate >15.00%
Trump mentions Leopold Aschenbrenner or his essay "Situational Awareness" in any way
Trump mentions the Rationalism movement, LessWrong, or Slate Star Codex / Astral Codex Ten
Constitutional Amendment
The construction of the Third Temple begins in Jerusalem
SpaceX is nationalized
Trump builds a complete wall across the Mexico-US border
Ukraine starts a nuclear weapons program
Major Yellowstone caldera scare
Trump gets poisoned ends up in hospital
Trump wholeheartedly apologises for something political he did without caveats or backtracking
Trump supports mask or glove mandate anywhere in the US
Trump and Melania divorce
Ann Selzer arrested
Matt Gaetz is confirmed for any role in the executive branch of the US government
Trump bans all vaccines nationwide
Trump enacts jus primae noctis
Anthony Fauci is convicted
New US national anthem
Trump gives the middle finger hand gesture with both hands at once
Trump forces Ivanka to divorce Jared and marry either Vance or Musk
Trump says "Vriska did nothing wrong"
A hurricane will be nuked
Jimmy Carter dies
Trump publicly approves of Project 2025, before 2026
Matt Gaetz is rejected by the Senate for Attorney General, then DeSantis appoints him to Rubio's vacated Senate seat
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J. Something 'just works' on the order of eg: train a predictive/imitative/generative AI on a human-generated dataset, and RLHF her to be unfailingly nice, generous to weaker entities, and determined to make the cosmos a lovely place.
I. The tech path to AGI superintelligence is naturally slow enough and gradual enough, that world-destroyingly-critical alignment problems never appear faster than previous discoveries generalize to allow safe further experimentation.
Something wonderful happens that isn't well-described by any option listed. (The semantics of this option may change if other options are added.)
M. "We'll make the AI do our AI alignment homework" just works as a plan. (Eg the helping AI doesn't need to be smart enough to be deadly; the alignment proposals that most impress human judges are honest and truthful and successful.)
O. Early applications of AI/AGI drastically increase human civilization's sanity and coordination ability; enabling humanity to solve alignment, or slow down further descent into AGI, etc. (Not in principle mutex with all other answers.)
C. Solving prosaic alignment on the first critical try is not as difficult, nor as dangerous, nor taking as much extra time, as Yudkowsky predicts; whatever effort is put forth by the leading coalition works inside of their lead time.
B. Humanity puts forth a tremendous effort, and delays AI for long enough, and puts enough desperate work into alignment, that alignment gets solved first.
K. Somebody discovers a new AI paradigm that's powerful enough and matures fast enough to beat deep learning to the punch, and the new paradigm is much much more alignable than giant inscrutable matrices of floating-point numbers.
A. Humanity successfully coordinates worldwide to prevent the creation of powerful AGIs for long enough to develop human intelligence augmentation, uploading, or some other pathway into transcending humanity's window of fragility.
D. Early powerful AGIs realize that they wouldn't be able to align their own future selves/successors if their intelligence got raised further, and work honestly with humans on solving the problem in a way acceptable to both factions.
E. Whatever strange motivations end up inside an unalignable AGI, or the internal slice through that AGI which codes its successor, they max out at a universe full of cheerful qualia-bearing life and an okay outcome for existing humans.
H. Many competing AGIs form an equilibrium whereby no faction is allowed to get too powerful, and humanity is part of this equilibrium and survives and gets a big chunk of cosmic pie.
L. Earth's present civilization crashes before powerful AGI, and the next civilization that rises is wiser and better at ops. (Exception to 'okay' as defined originally, will be said to count as 'okay' even if many current humans die.)
N. A crash project at augmenting human intelligence via neurotech, training mentats via neurofeedback, etc, produces people who can solve alignment before it's too late, despite Earth civ not slowing AI down much.
F. Somebody pulls off a hat trick involving blah blah acausal blah blah simulations blah blah, or other amazingly clever idea, which leads an AGI to put the reachable galaxies to good use despite that AGI not being otherwise alignable.
G. It's impossible/improbable for something sufficiently smarter and more capable than modern humanity to be created, that it can just do whatever without needing humans to cooperate; nor does it successfully cheat/trick us.
If you write an argument that breaks down the 'okay outcomes' into lots of distinct categories, without breaking down internal conjuncts and so on, Reality is very impressed with how disjunctive this sounds and allocates more probability.
You are fooled by at least one option on this list, which out of many tries, ends up sufficiently well-aimed at your personal ideals / prejudices / the parts you understand less well / your own personal indulgences in wishful thinking.
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The Pentagon cuts ties with Anthropic
The Pentagon declares Anthropic a "supply chain risk"
Anthropic files a lawsuit against the federal government
The Department of War signs a deal to use OpenAI models instead
The supply chain risk designation is officially issued
OpenAI signs a contract substantially weaker than Anthropic's requirements
An injunction is granted against the supply chain risk designation
A judge grants an injunction against the Department of War
Anthropic's "supply chain risk" designation removed before 2027
Anthropic's "supply chain risk" designation removed before July
An injunction is granted against the supply chain risk designation And survives unblocked by other courts for 6 months
Resignation letter signed by at least 5 OpenAI employees
The government offers the same terms to Anthropic as to OpenAI
US company with >100B total valuation cancels some Pentagon contract and uses Anthropic supply chain risk designation as stated justification
Anthropic's contract is publicly available
OpenAI's new contract is publicly available
The Pentagon invokes the Defense Production Act
Autonomous weapon + surveillance Claude safeguards are removed for the Pentagon
Anthropic gives the government unfettered access of their own accord (they "cave in")
The Pentagon designates Anthropic a supply chain risk, AND invokes the Defense Production Act
Dario Amodei leaves or is removed from Anthropic
Resignation letter signed by at least 5 Anthropic researchers
Will Amazon have to divest / break with Anthropic in 2026?
Anthropic stops advancing AI capabilities
The Pentagon continues to use Anthropic services without the requested changes (autonomous weapon + mass surveillance of americans)
The Pentagon and Anthropic come to some form of mutual settlement by the Friday deadline
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Ron Weasley is a redhead
Harry Potter is white
At least one named character from the book has their race changed
Snape is black
An actor who acted in the movies returns for the show
Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s actors will all be British
Fred and George are twins irl
Hagrid is played by an actor who is under 6'4"
Harry Potter doesn't cast a single spoken, working spell in the first episode
Dumbledore casts a spell (spoken or wordlessly)
McGonagall performs an animagus transformation (human2cat or cat2human)
A character cut from the movies appears (ie Theodore Nott)
Ron Weasley doesn't cast a single, spoken, working spell in the first two episodes
A History of Magic lesson is shown on screen
Quirrel is wearing a head covering when Harry first meets him
Premieres in 2027
Malfoy has white blonde hair
There’s a scene set before Harry is born
JK Rowling is credited as both an executive producer and original writer
The potion riddle guarding the Stone will be featured
Peeves is a reoccurring character
It's woke
Cornelius Fudge is shown on screen
A scene depicts Voldemort trying to kill baby Harry
Harry first sees Hogwarts castle in episode 2
mandrake root on screen
Hermione’s parent(s) shown on screen
80% or higher on rotten tomatoes
Arthur Weasley is shown on screen
Homosexual interaction between some characters will be presented
Hagrid says "You’re a wizard, Harry"
Hermione is white
Luna Lovegood, Cho Chang, or Cedric Diggory are mentioned by first or last name, or are in the credits
A house elf is shown on screen
Premieres on strongly symbolic date (like July 31, 21.12)
Arabella Figg is mentioned by first or last name
It will be torrentfreak.com's "Most Pirated" TV show for its year of release or the following year
The Quibbler is shown or mentioned
At least one named character from the book has their gender swapped
Hagrid ties Vernon’s gun into a knot
An actor who appeared in any of the Jackass films receives a credit on IMDB related to the show
Goblins are still represented as anti-semitic caricatures
It ends on a cliff hanger
The Weasley's Ford Anglia is seen flying
An Astronomy lesson is shown on screen
"Voldemort" has a silent "t"
The Flying Ford Anglia is seen.
Harry first sees Hogwarts castle in episode 3
Hagrid presents a cake with writing on it to Harry and the writing has no misspellings
Harry visits Diagon Alley in episode 1
Harry visits Platform 9 3/4 in episode 1
At least one of the actors is transgender
VOLDEMORT HAS A NOSE
Dobby makes an appearance
Harry only reaches Hogwarts in the last 10 minutes of the first episode
The intro theme song will have at least one obvious English word
Premieres in 2026
Harry is shown holding more than three different wands at Ollivander’s
90% or higher on rotten tomatoes
Any Harry Potter fanfic is referenced (either explicitly as judged by market creator, or confirmed by someone who works on the show)
Quirrel shakes Harry’s hand during their first meeting
Harry Potter doesn't cast a single, spoken, working spell in the first three episode
We see a wizarding school other than Hogwarts
Features an explicitly transgender character
JK Rowling makes a cameo appearance
Hagrid is played by an actor with a cognitive disability
Hermione is black
Hermione is Indian
Zendaya is cast in the show
Smartphone shown within Hogwarts
Awkwafina is cast in the show
Voldemort is a woman
There will be seven CGI dwarves
set in 2025
set in the 2020s
Rita Skeeter will have an explicit trans identity
Keir Starmer is in it
Yudkowsky makes an appearance
Harry, Ron, and Hermione will all be transgender
We get AGI before it premieres
HPMOR is referenced
Hagrid is black
Gandalf is black
Adolf Hitler is mentioned
Fred and George have the same actor
One or more of Hermione, Ron, and Harry have their genders swapped.
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Any American receives it by end 2026
Limit set at or below 99th percentile wealth or income
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Limit set at or below 90th percentile wealth or income
A physical check (at least optionally)
Multiple disparate "tariff dividends" (different sources or destinations)
Only given out to military
All for same amount
≥$2000
Blocked by a federal judge
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Passed by Congress
$ value explicitly tied to performance of tariffs
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Some checks bounce
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Other US citizen
Political underling
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State governor
Member of congress
State supreme court judge
Supreme court judge
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2025 [resolves on Jan 1st]
The death of Jimmy Carter
The Paris Olympics closing ceremony
The launch of GPT-5
The release of the iPhone 16
Both the 2024 US & UK General Elections
Bitcoin reaches $100k
Elon Musk has another child
GTA 6 release
The death of Joe Biden
A Category 5 hurricane hits the US
The war in Ukraine comes to an end
Peak Oil Demand
The Enhanced Games opening ceremony
Man’s return to the moon
EV sales in the USA overtake ICE
Will Smith attends the Oscars
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Bitcoin falls to $30k
AGI is achieved as judged by Manifold
A "superintelligent oracle" achieved, as defined by the resolution of the Metaculus market on the topic
Donald Trump goes to jail
Prince William and Kate divorce
Female US President
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Cabinet level current us official visits greenland
Trump visits greenland
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Greenland has a positive annual migration rate (-4.9/1000 in 2024)
Us has another military base at least 500 personnel
Thule Air Force Base expands to over 3000 personnel at least part of the year, up from 600 now
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Greenland population is <80% ethnic greenlander (88% in 2025)
Greenland citizens receive money or other financial benefits from us gov
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Chinese national population of Greenland exceeds 200
Greenland has 2 or more registered air flight carriers (1 in 2024)
Greenland has a military
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Greenland significantly changes its flag
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Gains nuclear power station. Excluding military vessels. Portable is okay
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USD is the used currency
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K. Somebody discovers a new AI paradigm that's powerful enough and matures fast enough to beat deep learning to the punch, and the new paradigm is much much more alignable than giant inscrutable matrices of floating-point numbers.
I. The tech path to AGI superintelligence is naturally slow enough and gradual enough, that world-destroyingly-critical alignment problems never appear faster than previous discoveries generalize to allow safe further experimentation.
C. Solving prosaic alignment on the first critical try is not as difficult, nor as dangerous, nor taking as much extra time, as Yudkowsky predicts; whatever effort is put forth by the leading coalition works inside of their lead time.
D. Early powerful AGIs realize that they wouldn't be able to align their own future selves/successors if their intelligence got raised further, and work honestly with humans on solving the problem in a way acceptable to both factions.
Something wonderful happens that isn't well-described by any option listed. (The semantics of this option may change if other options are added.)
A. Humanity successfully coordinates worldwide to prevent the creation of powerful AGIs for long enough to develop human intelligence augmentation, uploading, or some other pathway into transcending humanity's window of fragility.
B. Humanity puts forth a tremendous effort, and delays AI for long enough, and puts enough desperate work into alignment, that alignment gets solved first.
M. "We'll make the AI do our AI alignment homework" just works as a plan. (Eg the helping AI doesn't need to be smart enough to be deadly; the alignment proposals that most impress human judges are honest and truthful and successful.)
O. Early applications of AI/AGI drastically increase human civilization's sanity and coordination ability; enabling humanity to solve alignment, or slow down further descent into AGI, etc. (Not in principle mutex with all other answers.)
E. Whatever strange motivations end up inside an unalignable AGI, or the internal slice through that AGI which codes its successor, they max out at a universe full of cheerful qualia-bearing life and an okay outcome for existing humans.
F. Somebody pulls off a hat trick involving blah blah acausal blah blah simulations blah blah, or other amazingly clever idea, which leads an AGI to put the reachable galaxies to good use despite that AGI not being otherwise alignable.
J. Something 'just works' on the order of eg: train a predictive/imitative/generative AI on a human-generated dataset, and RLHF her to be unfailingly nice, generous to weaker entities, and determined to make the cosmos a lovely place.
H. Many competing AGIs form an equilibrium whereby no faction is allowed to get too powerful, and humanity is part of this equilibrium and survives and gets a big chunk of cosmic pie.
L. Earth's present civilization crashes before powerful AGI, and the next civilization that rises is wiser and better at ops. (Exception to 'okay' as defined originally, will be said to count as 'okay' even if many current humans die.)
G. It's impossible/improbable for something sufficiently smarter and more capable than modern humanity to be created, that it can just do whatever without needing humans to cooperate; nor does it successfully cheat/trick us.
N. A crash project at augmenting human intelligence via neurotech, training mentats via neurofeedback, etc, produces people who can solve alignment before it's too late, despite Earth civ not slowing AI down much.
You are fooled by at least one option on this list, which out of many tries, ends up sufficiently well-aimed at your personal ideals / prejudices / the parts you understand less well / your own personal indulgences in wishful thinking.
If you write an argument that breaks down the 'okay outcomes' into lots of distinct categories, without breaking down internal conjuncts and so on, Reality is very impressed with how disjunctive this sounds and allocates more probability.
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