TobyBartels comments on New Year's Predictions Thread (2011) - Less Wrong
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Next year:
A virus is discovered affecting Android which will create a small crisis in the mobile phone industry: 17%
A minor crisis in rare earth metals will cause an increase in the number of RE mining projects worldwide, judged by starts and investment activity: 15%
.... is caused by Chinese foreign policy, trade restrictions: 65%
.... is caused by an infrastructure disaster in China, natural or man-made: 30%
One of the largest reinsurance companies, top 10, will collapse because of underestimated basis risk: 6%
The New York art scene will be displaced as the center, process started with clear trajectory: 3%
.... resulted from further dilution of the classical collector pool by collectors driven by current prices: 65%
Next 10 years:
Governments of countries with shrinking or stable populations have shifted to using a measure other than GDP as their primary benchmark of economic growth, 80% of shrinking/stable states: 70%
"Hacker" re 'malicious manipulator of other's networks' will be displaced by "hacker" re 'someone involved in DIY projects and soft, fluffy Frauenfelderism': 67%
Peak travel in the US will lead naturally to changes in urban design as people reduce regular travel to increase leisure travel: 53%
Worker retraining programs are developed which focus on putting people with liberal arts degrees on a trajectory to technical master's degrees, functional in at least 3 of the 15 largest US states: 47%
We reach "peak carbon" in the developed world without a coordinated plan to do so, clear plateau in carbon emissions per person: 40%
Each second-level "..." prediction is conditioned on the preceding first-level prediction, is that right?
Right.