You know, the funny thing is, there are transhumanist themes in the drafts and deleted materials for Evangelion. For example, parsing the SEELE discussions in the EoE draft and comments by Gainaxers, one has the impression that originally the plan of Gendo and Yui was to upload humans into immortal Evas so they could colonize other worlds, the human body being too frail and short-lived for space travel! (Like many of the explanations and details, I think they were cut by Anno to focus on the psychology themes that interested him more.)
I like this, source please?
Going through expiring predictions reminded me. Just as we did for 2010 and 2011, it's time for LessWrong to make its beliefs pay rent and give hostages to fortune in making predictions for events in 2012 and beyond.
Suggested topics include: Methods of Rationality updates (eg. "will there be any?"), economic benchmarks (price of gold has been an educational one for me this past year), medical advances (but be careful not to be too optimistic!), personal precommitments (signing up for cryonics?), being curmudgeonly about self-improvement, making daring predictions about the future of AGI, and so on.
As before, please be fairly specific. I intend to put most predictions on PredictionBook.com and it'd be nice if they weren't too hard to judge in the future.
(If you want advice on making good predictions, I've tried to write up a few useful heuristics I've learned. So far in the judging process, I've done pretty well this year, although I'm a little annoyed I got a Yemen prediction right but for the wrong reasons.)