Scott Alexander suggested it might be useful to think of 'our timelines' as being like 2070 to 2100, with the last 50 to 70 years of that progress happening during 2027 to 2028 because of what he described as an intelligence explosion.
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Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?
Reasoning
deadline 2028 is after 2026-11-04
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Scott Alexander, “Scott Alexander suggested it might be useful to think of 'our timelines' as being like 2070 to 2100, with the last 50 to 70 years of that progress happening during 2027 to 2028 because of what he described as an intelligence explosion.” (said 3 April 2025). Verdict: not yet due. Reliability API, claim c_37a09fe556da, method 0.1.0+8bea457b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_37a09fe556da
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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“Our scenario focuses on coding in particular because we think coding is what starts the intelligence explosion.”
The authors of the scenario think coding is what will start the intelligence explosion.
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“In our scenario, that starts with cyber warfare, the government sees that these AIs are now as capable as the best human hackers, but can be deployed at humongous scale.”
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“So they become extremely interested and they discuss nationalizing the AI companies.”
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“I expect scaling to continue to produce gains, but this is less obvious than it’s been the past five years.”
Scaling AI models will continue to produce gains, though less obviously than in the past five years.
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