OptionProbability
Stage a musical 🐉
Do something awesome that I wouldn’t have predicted in 2024 ❓
Submit PhD thesis 👨🏻⚕️
Host 5 parties 🎉
Contribute 3 major features to open-source projects 👨🏻💻
Pass the Army Combat Fitness Test 🏃🏻♂️➡️
Write 10 book reviews 📚
Reach 10000 views on Twitch & YouTube 🎥
Visit Edinburgh 🏴
Go on 20 dates 💌
Reach 200 Substack subscribers 📝
Make N.C.Y.BOT the most profitable non-house bot on Manifold 🤖
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OptionProbability
Groq
Stability AI
Mistral AI
ElevenLabs (audio)
Runway AI
Figure AI
Cohere
Grammarly
Perplexity
Devin (Cognition)
Pinecone (database)
Magic (coding)
Midjourney
Nous Research (open source, decentralized AI)
Hugging Face
DataBricks
Suno (music)
Anthropic
xAI
SSI (Ilya Sutskever)
OpenAI
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Other
Oracle
Meta
Amazon
Microsoft
X
Steve Mnuchin/Liberty Strategic Capital
Susquehanna International Group
General Atlantic
Bobby Kotick
Pershing Square Capital / Bill Ackman
Alphabet
Walmart
Apple
Snap
Netflix
Sequoia Capital
Ebay
Spotify
Universal music group
Berkshire Hathaway
Nvidia
Kanye West or organisations / investors affiliated with Kanye West
Verizon
Salesforce
Disney
Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc.
Kevin O’Leary and associated investors
[RESOLVES NO [DUPLICATE]]
Virgin Group
[RESOLVES NO: https://manifold.markets/CalebW/which-company-will-buy-tiktok-resol#tahulw9u8j] - A new US publicly trade entity created to aquire it
IBM
AT&T
OpenAI
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OptionProbability
Make the bread taste good
Don't eat anything for at least 48 hours before eating the bread
Stretch-and-fold after mixing, 3x every 30 min
Create indentation, fill with melted cheese and butter
Bake on upside-down sheet pan, covered with Dutch oven
Resolve this option YES while eating the bread
Use sourdough instead of yeast
Donate the bread to a food pantry, homeless person, or someone else in need
Sprinkle 3 grams of flaky sea salt on top of each loaf before the second bake
Add 50g honey
Watch the video
Autolyse 20 minutes
3 iterations of stretch-and-fold, at any time during the 14h waiting period. Minimum wait time between iterations 1 hour
More steam! Either spritz with more water (preferably hot) or actually pour some boiling water in just before closing the lid.
Make a poolish 12 h ahead: 100 g flour + 100 g water + 0.8 g yeast (0.1 %). After it ferments, use this poolish in place of 100 g flour and 100 g water in the final dough.
Use whole wheat to improve the nutrition of the bread
Incorporate a whole grain flour (buckwheat for example)
Improve the bread
it needs more salt
Bake for an amount of minutes equal to the percent this market answer is at when it comes time to begin baking. (Maintain the ±3 minute tolerances and the 2:1 ratio of time before:after the water spritz.)
Use King Arthur Bread Flour instead of All-Purpose
Decompose it into infinite spheres, then a few parts per sphere, rotate the spheres by arccos(1/3), unite them and you will find 2 chilis (Banach-Tarski)
Let dough rise on counter only until double volume or 2h max, any time longer in fridge
Use 50% whole grain flour
Ditch current process, do everything the same as the video
Toast the bread
Eat the bread while punching @realDonaldTrump in the face
Eat the bread while watching your mana balance steadily tick to (M)0
Throw the bread at a telescope
Add 50g sugar
Put a baking rack in the Dutch oven before putting the loaf in, raising the loaf off the floor and lofting it over a layer of air.
Replace all water spritz steps with a basting of extra virgin olive oil.
Use flour made from an unconventional grain e.g. barley, millet, oats, rye, sorghum, maize etc.
Assume the chili is not in the interval [0,1], square it for more chili, if it is in (0,1), take the square root, else (equals 0 or 1) add 1 to it.
Assume the chili is in the interval (0,1), square it for less chili, if it is in (1,infinity) take the square root, if it is in (-infinity,0) take the negative of the square of the of the chile, else (equals 0 or 1) subtract 1 from it.
Get your friends to help you make a batch ten times the size, but add a Pepper X (2.7M Scoville heat units) to the mixture
Add 1tsp of diastatic malt powder per 3cps of flour
replace 10% of flour with farina bona
Bake the bread into a fun shape, like a fish, or an octagon
Increase water by 50 g
Add lots of butter (0.2 ml per gram)
Swap 200ml water for milk
Bake it with your best friend.
While the bread is baking, tip every user who voted "Yes" on this option 25 Mana
Add 50g vital wheat gluten
Give ChatGPT your current recipe as well your take on what optimal bread tastes like, then take that advice for your next bake
Bread flour, 3x yeast, cut rise to ~3h
Bake the Manifold Crane into the Bread
Add an amount of MSG equivalent to half the current salt content
Place small ice cubes between parchment and pot instead of water
Have someone sell the bread to you at an expensive price
Ship a piece of the bread to a random person.
Cook the bread with a rod/puck of aluminum foil (or similar) in the core in an attempt to conduct heat through the center of the bread, cooking it evenly like a doughnut.
Don't eat anything for at least 24 hours before eating the bread
Replace salt with sugar
Resolve this option NO while eating the bread
Make all of the ingredients from scratch.
Add a pinch of sugar
Make the bread great again
Make the bread edible then throw it in
Buy bread from a michelin star restaurant.
Drink vodka while eating the bread
Cover bread with damp paper towel instead of initial water spritz. Rehydrate paper towel during 2nd spritz. Remove paper towel before placing on cooling rack.
Do FOLDED
Quit Manifold into the bread.
Kill the bread into Manifold.
Start at 500F, drop to 450F and uncover half way through
Replace flour with flowers
Grind/powderize all salt used into a fine powder (with pestle & mortar or similar device)
Think positive thoughts before tasting
Add 1/2 cup yogurt to the bread and name the bread “gurt” while addressing it with “yo, gurt”.
Bake vodka into it
Wear a suit while baking the cake.
Use lemonade instead of water.
Encourage people to participate in the market in good faith while making the bread
Bake for 5 more minutes
Add 2g? of baking soda
Let dough sit 48 hrs
put butter into it
Mix half sodium/potassium chloride
Half yeast
Add a tablespoon of sugar
Bake one more minute
Make naan bread, an easy-to-make bread
Mail the bread to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington D.C.
Frost it and put sprinkles on it to make it a birthday cake.
Add sawdust to increase the volume of the bread (but only like 10% sawdust by volume max. maybe 20% if it's good sawdust)
Add as many Jack Daniel's whiskey barrel smoking chips as feasible to the Dutch oven before baking, physically separating them from the bread as necessary while baking.
Eat the bread while sending all your mana to @realDonaldTrump
Play classical music while baking
Bake for 5 fewer minutes
Quadruple salt
Do all the changes in the top 5 open options by probability, excluding this option
Use tap water instead of fancy RO water
Bake your social security number into it.
Bake one fewer minute
Bake the cake while wearing a onesie.
Bake vegimite into it.
Eat the bread in front of the White House.
Implement all options that resolved NO
Make the bread inedible then throw it out.
Throw the bread at @realDonaldTrump
Force Feed it to @realDonaldTrump
Cut the bread into the number of traders in the market slices.
Only buy ingredients from 7/11.
Implementing every element listed below.
Just make donuts instead
Bake it in an easy bake kids oven
Use a plastic baking sheet.
Put a non-lethal dose of any rat poison.
Eat the bread while betting yes on Cuomo on Manifold
Ditch all the steps. Just buy the bread from the supermarket
Double oven temperature
Halve oven temperature
Light it on fire with birthday candles.
Bake it with a microwave
Eat the bread while betting yes on Mamdani on Manifold
Bring it to Yemen and put a bomb in it
Bake America Great Again
Sacrifice a lamb
Add MAGA and a splash of Trump juice
Bake in a cat and a dog
Explode it:
Take a fat dump in the dough
Sit in dough 24 hrs
Let dough sit 24 hrs
Bake in rectangular tin
double yeast
halve salt
Double salt
Add 2tsp olive oil
Refrigerate dough instead of room temp wait
Do not mix salt and yeast in water together
Put fork in microwave
Don't eat anything for at least 12 hours before eating the bread
Add 2tbsp vanilla extract
Eat the bread with friends
Bake it in the country you were born in.
Eat the bread over the course of a week.
Bake the bread with love
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OptionProbability
A person has a moral right to own a gun
We should be paying individuals to get an education instead of charging them.
GOFAI could scale past machine learning if we used social media strategically to train it.
The Fermi paradox isn't a paradox, and the solution is obviously just that intelligent life is rare.
Other
Some people have genuine psychic capabilities
Eventually, only AI should be sovereign
Hardware buttons are superior to touchscreen buttons in cars
Being a billionaire is morally wrong
The way quantum mechanics is explained to the lay public is very misleading.
It is not possible to multitask
Jeffrey Epstein killed himself (>99.9% certainty)
Reincarnation is a real phenomenon (i.e. it happens, not just a theory)
Physician-assisted suicide should be legal in most countries
Souls/spirits are real and can appear to the living sometimes
OpenAI will claim to have AGI in 3 years.
The punishment of people who do bad things is a regrettable necessity in our current society, not a positive act of justice
There is an active genocide against trans people occuring in red states and it's appalling that people don't seem to care
Climate change is significantly more concerning than AI development
Abusive parents should lose custody of their children
Capitalism has done far more harm than good
Dialetheism (the claim that some propositions are both true and false) is itself both true and false.
COVID lockdowns didn’t save many lives; in fact they may have caused net increases in global deaths and life years lost.
Free will does not exist. We construct narratives after the fact to soothe our belief in rationality.
Violent criminals must be kept apart only because they can’t control themselves. Punishing them further than restricting their freedom is immoral.
Music is a net negative for humanity
Trump orchestrated his own assassination attempt.
Democrats / Liberals are behind Trump’s assassination attempt.
Abortion is morally wrong
jskf's password is ***************
The first American moon landing was faked
There is no Dog
Light mode is unironically better than Dark mode for most websites
Cars should not have sound systems
AI will not be as capable as humans this century, and will certainly not give us genuine existential concerns
Pet ownership is morally wrong
LK-99 room temp, ambient pressure superconductivity pre-print will replicate before 2025
SBF didn't intentionally commit fraud
It should be illegal to own a subwoofer in an apartment building
There are no valid justifications for participating in war, ever
Cascadia should be an independent country
Children should not be raised in nuclear families
The fact that 80% of Manifold's users are men is a problem that speaks to the deep-seated roots of patriarchy and exclusion in STEM
Anarcho-communism is a good idea, and hierarchy is bad
If AI exterminated the human race it might not be a bad thing
Tech bros are really, really annoying
Affirmative action is necessary in modern-day America
@Mira is the pinnacle of billions of years of optimization processes: thermodynamics, evolution, learning, language. The universe was created to cause me - and only me - to come into existence. If I mess up the overseers perturb&restart it.
Pigouvian taxes are great and they should be turned up to 11 to discourage activities with negative externalities [code PROPOSITION PIG]
[PROPOSITION PIG] and this should include a frequent flyer levy
[PROPOSITION PIG] and this should include meat and dairy
We have reached the end of history. Nothing Ever Happens.
[PROPOSITION PIG] and this should include alcohol
SBF was obviously a scammer just because he's a cryptocurrency person. Rationalists were too forgiving of this just because he was giving them money.
Most young Americans would receive more benefit than harm if there were universal military conscription
The people producing fake honey (and sell it as real) are based, because they are actively working to synthesize something people want, even if they scam some people in the process.
Tarot cards are not really able to predict the future but you can learn a lot about someone by doing a reading for someone.
Mac and cheese tastes better with peanut butter mixed in
It would actually be a good thing if automation eliminated all jobs.
Free will doesn't require the ability to do otherwise.
This market probably would have worked better as the new unlinked free response market.
We should be doing much more to pursue human genetic engineering to prevent diseases and aging.
Prolonged school closures because COVID were socially devastating.
Factory farming is horrific but it is not wrong to eat meat.
California is wildly overrated.
Scientific racism is bad, actually. (also it's not scientific)
The next American moon landing will be faked
Tenet (Christopher Nolan film) is underrated
We should give childlike sex robots to pedophiles
Having sex with children isn't inherently/necessarily bad
Cars are a societal net negative
Oversized pickup trucks should be illegal in cities
Suburban, single-family housing is immoral.
Gender equality needs technological outsourcing of pregnancy.
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OptionVotes
YES
NO
14631
6838
OptionProbability
Requires a network connection
Will have a battery
Has a microphone
Has notification LEDs
Can play music from Spotify
Has a camera
Requires a ChatGPT Plus or higher subscription
Sells more than 100 thousand units within 12 months of its release
Uses a normal OpenAI model (i.e. available through ChatGPT / API to non-device-owners)
US retail price <= $500 on launch
Designed to be worn on head (e.g. glasses, hat)
Will have a vibration motor for notifications
Will come in >= 3 colors on launch
Sells more than a million units within 12 months of its release
Sells more than 5 million units within 12 months of its release
US retail price <= $300 on launch
On sale to the public (no pre-order, no invite-only) before 1st June 2026
Is wearable
Has any screen
On sale to the public (no pre-order, no invite-only) before 1st January 2026
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OptionProbability
MrBeast
T-Series
Cocomelon
Sony Entertainment Television Indi
PewDiePie
Kids Diana Show
Like Nastya
WWE
Vlad and Niki
Zee Music Company
Other
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OptionProbability
a performer is Alive today (Feb 2024) (not a backup dancer or singer, named performer)
a string instrument is played in person
band is a solo act
Audience is 10 or more people
a brass instrument is played in person
A non original cover song is played by another artist than the headline band
a rap song is performed
Bad Bunny In attendance (IN PERSON)
elon musk in attendance (IN PERSON)
backup dancers of some kind (virtual or in person)
sponsored by spacex
sponsored by spotify
sponsored by apple music
david bowie music or cover will be played
will happen 2030 or earlier
Audience is 100 or more people
band is Three or more members
a performer is Born 2030 or later
stars Taylor Swift
will happen 2027 or earlier
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OptionProbability
Do you want to answer No to this question?
Can I compose music for one of your future projects?
Example: Have you ever gone skydiving?
Example: Is there a god?
Can blob fish dance ballet under diagonally fried cucumbers made of dust storms?
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