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229_031predictionRoboticshumanoids

At some point, you'll walk out in a city (likely San Francisco first) and see more humanoids than humans.

Predictor: Brett Adcock · ep#229 "The Humanoid Takeover: $50T Market, Figure's Full Body Autonomy, and Robots in Dorms #229" · source

Prior probability
55.0%
Current probability
38.0%
evolves via intake + LBP
Conviction
4/5
Signal quality
C
Resolution
pending
Window
2026-04-30 – 2028-11-30
Edges in / out
2 / 0
Tickers exposed
29

Prediction text

At some point, you'll walk out in a city (likely San Francisco first) and see more humanoids than humans. | at some point you're going to walk out probably in San Francisco be the first and you'll see more humanoids than humans. Yeah. And I think that'll be an amazing day.

Watch events: Figure 03 shipment volume; BMW, 2nd customer deployment count

Verbatim quote

From episode "The Humanoid Takeover: $50T Market, Figure's Full Body Autonomy, and Robots in Dorms #229"
at some point you're going to walk out probably in San Francisco be the first and you'll see more humanoids than humans. Yeah. And I think that'll be an amazing day.

Predictor: Brett Adcock

κ + Brier as of 2026-05-22
κ (discount)
0.773
Brier
0.0040
excellent
Hits / Misses
5 / 0
of 6 resolved
Hit rate
83.3%
Calibration plot (stated vs observed)

Evidence about this node from Brett Adcock is multiplied by κ in /api/intake. Lower κ = less weight; floors at 0.10 (effectively silenced) and caps at 1.00 (full weight).

Reference class

Not linked

This node isn't linked to a reference class. The Bayesian update applies without outside-view blending.

Probability over time

5 prob_history rows
0%25%50%75%100%prior 55%2026-04-302026-05-032026-05-17
intake v2milestone miss sweeplbp propagationreference class assignedlegacy v1prior_prob (analyst seed)current = 38.0%

Milestone chain

Pre-event signals (upstream prereqs + window checkpoints) → resolution event → downstream cascades. Status/dates update from linked nodes; re-derive nightly via scripts/ops/derive_milestones.py.
Leading chain: 7 pending
  1. 2026-10-06pendingQ1 window check-in (25%)
  2. 2026-12-31pendingGlobal humanoid demand reaches 30,000 units in 2026
    How: Industry consensus tracker (Bain, Morgan Stanley) confirms >=30,000 global humanoid unit demand for calendar 2026
    Source: https://www.bain.com/insights/humanoid-robots-from-demos-to-deployment-technology-report-2025/ - base case 30,000 units 2026conf 55%
  3. 2026-09-01 → 2027-06-30pendingTesla Optimus external customer shipments begin
    How: Tesla begins shipping Optimus to first non-Tesla external customers, per Q3 2026 / 2027 guidance
    Source: https://blog.robozaps.com/b/figure-01-vs-tesla-optimus-gen-2 - first external customers expected late 2026conf 55%
  4. 2027-03-14pendingQ2 window check-in (50%)
  5. 2026-12-31 → 2027-12-31pendingFoundation deploys 10,000 humanoids in 2026, 50,000 by end-2027
    How: San Francisco-based Foundation publicly confirms cumulative humanoid manufacture of >=10,000 units in 2026 and on track for 50,000 by end-2027
    Source: https://interestingengineering.com/military/us-foundation-build-50000-humanoid-robots - SF Foundation: 40 robots 2025, 10,000 in 2026, 50,000 by end 2027conf 60%
  6. 2027-08-20pendingQ3 window check-in (75%)
  7. 2027-01-01 → 2028-06-30pendingCumulative humanoid robots deployed in SF Bay Area exceeds 5,000
    How: Industry tracker (Humanoids Daily, Bain) reports >5,000 humanoid robots operating commercially within SF Bay Area metro region
    Source: https://www.bain.com/insights/humanoid-robots-from-demos-to-deployment-technology-report-2025/ - several hundred deployed 2025, low thousands by 2026-27conf 45%
  8. 2028-11-30pendingMore-humanoids-than-humans density NOT achieved in any SF block by 2028-11-30
    How: By target window end, no observed/reported SF block, district, or measurable area has humanoid:human ratio >1; Adcock prediction misses
    Source: Math: SF metro pop ~870k humans daily downtown footfall; even 50k humanoids globally is <1% locallyconf 92%
    Notes: Mathematical floor; this is the bear-case anchor. Expectation that full prediction misses by 2028.

What if this resolves?

Clamp this prediction TRUE or FALSE and run a counterfactual Gibbs sample. Surfaces the predictions whose marginals shift most under that assumption.
(live posterior: 38%)

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Evidence chain

Every probability update with full Bayesian provenance — chronological, latest first
LBP2026-05-17T02:00:01Z38.0%-1.2pp
Network propagation: 39.3% → 38.0%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00689 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run e607fa96
LBP2026-05-10T02:00:02Z39.3%-2.5pp
Network propagation: 41.8% → 39.3%
6-iter LBP, residual 0.00584 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run e5c18d29
LBP2026-05-03T02:00:01Z41.8%-5.1pp
Network propagation: 46.9% → 41.8%
6-iter LBP, residual 0.00677 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run 1a683ac9
LBP2026-04-30T16:39:51Z46.9%-2.8pp
Network propagation: 49.7% → 46.9%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00825 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v2 · run 0c8a4ea3
LBP2026-04-30T02:18:57Z49.7%-5.3pp
Network propagation: 55.0% → 49.7%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00825 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v1 · run 592311ef

Network propagation neighbors

Top edges sorted by latest LBP cross-impact
All propagation →

Top incoming (parents)

Edges that influence THIS node's belief

KindNodeTheir probP(c|s=T)P(c|s=F)Δ implied
prereqS_HUMANOID_ENTERPRISE_2028
Humanoid R2: 100K+ enterprise by Nov 2028
50.0%0.5500.050-0.080
killerTK08
Humanoid Capital Collapse (Figure/Apptronik Flop)
22.0%0.0500.550+0.060

Top outgoing (children)

Predictions THIS node influences

No outgoing edges.

Ticker exposure

29 ticker(s) linked

Beneficiaries (24)

LYSCFSERVFANUYMPNVDAHSEHYRNSHFALNTCGNXIRBTUSARSYMMIELYAMZNBYDDYHYMTFIFNNYABBNYPHSTMTELTERTSLATXN

Adverse (5)

RHIMANKELYAKFYTNET

Prerequisites (2)

Predictions that must hit first
TypePredTitleDomainLag
prereqS_HUMANOID_ENTERPRISE_2028Humanoid R2: 100K+ enterprise by Nov 2028humanoid_deployment
killerTK08Humanoid Capital Collapse (Figure/Apptronik Flop)

Dependents (0)

Predictions enabled by this
TypePredTitleDomainLag
No dependents

Raw metadata

From Thesis_Timeline_v1.0_FINAL workbook
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