TikTok wins as AI enables personalized, movie-quality content in many languages, taking over from movie industry.
Predictor: Dave Blundin · ep#232 "Ben Horowitz: xAI Executive Exodus, Apple's AI Crisis, The Pace of AI | EP #232" · source
Prediction text
TikTok wins as AI enables personalized, movie-quality content in many languages, taking over from movie industry. | Tik Tok also is the big winner. When you when you personalize the content, when it's almost movie quality and it's personalized to very narrow topic areas and narrow interests and many languages around the world and everything else, it just takes over.
Verbatim quote
Tik Tok also is the big winner. When you when you personalize the content, when it's almost movie quality and it's personalized to very narrow topic areas and narrow interests and many languages around the world and everything else, it just takes over.
Predictor: Dave Blundin
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Milestone chain
- 2026-06-01 → 2027-12-31pendingTikTok divestiture forced US ban resolved without permanent shutdownHow: TikTok US operations either: (a) continue under ByteDance, (b) divested to qualified US buyer, OR (c) banned/forced offline. Outcome (a) or (b) supports thesis; (c) breaks it.Source: Trump-era TikTok ban negotiations active; outcome materially affects whether TikTok 'wins'conf 75%Notes: Existential precondition — full US ban kills US-side thesis.
- 2026-06-01 → 2028-06-30pendingTikTok deploys generative-AI-driven personalized video at scaleHow: TikTok or ByteDance product announcement deploys per-user-personalized AI-generated video content (movie-quality, multilingual) to >=100M users; TechCrunch/Verge coverage requiredSource: Blundin claim: 'movie quality and personalized to narrow interests in many languages'conf 40%
- 2026-06-01 → 2028-06-30pendingTikTok-driven box office: 3+ films credit TikTok virality with >$500M global grossHow: Three or more theatrical releases credit TikTok virality (per studio executive quotes in trade press) with >$500M global gross; Barbie ($1.36B) is templateSource: Variety/THR documenting Barbie/Saltburn/Top Gun TikTok-driven theatrical performanceconf 55%Notes: Counter-evidence — TikTok augmenting rather than replacing theaters.
- 2027-01-01 → 2028-06-30pendingUS theatrical box office structural decline continues >=15% vs 2024How: Box Office Mojo or NATO reports US 2027 theatrical box office <=$7.4B (vs ~$8.7B 2024 baseline); 'TikTok takes over from movie industry' requires absolute declineSource: Direct test of 'taking over from movie industry' framingconf 50%
- 2027-06-01 → 2028-06-30pendingTikTok global ad revenue exceeds $40B (vs $34.8B forecast 2026)How: WARC, eMarketer, or Statista publishes TikTok 2027 global ad revenue >=$40B; growth rate sustained from 2025 $33B baselineSource: WARC: TikTok 2026 global ad revenue $34.8B; Statista forecast through 2027conf 65%
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| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| killer | TK09 Energy Grid Cap (Data Center Power Wall) | 35.0% | 0.050 | 0.550 | -0.079 |
| prereq | SEM_015 Nvidia agreed to remit 15% of China chip-sale revenue direct — Jensen Huang | 66.3% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.069 |
| prereq | SEM_027 Nvidia Data Center revenue +66% YoY, contributing ~90% of $5 — Joseph Moore | 68.3% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.068 |
| killer | TK05 Rate Regime Persistence (10y > 5% through 2028) | 30.0% | 0.050 | 0.550 | -0.054 |
| killer | TK03 AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | 10.0% | 0.050 | 0.550 | +0.046 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | SEM_011 | Nvidia became the world's first $5 trillion company (late 2025), operating a near-monopoly on advanced AI chips. | Capital Markets | — |
| prereq | SEM_027 | Nvidia Data Center revenue +66% YoY, contributing ~90% of $57B fiscal Q3 revenue; >$4.5T market cap entirely underpinned by AI silicon. | Capital Markets | — |
| prereq | SEM_014 | Nvidia's Arizona-based TSMC factory successfully fabricated cutting-edge semiconductors on US soil for first time in decades (October 2025). | Manufacturing | — |
| prereq | SEM_012 | Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) across engineering. | AI/Manufacturing | — |
| prereq | SEM_015 | Nvidia agreed to remit 15% of China chip-sale revenue directly to US government in exchange for reversing specific AI chip export bans. | Policy/Semis | — |
| killer | TK09 | Energy Grid Cap (Data Center Power Wall) | — | — |
| killer | TK05 | Rate Regime Persistence (10y > 5% through 2028) | — | — |
| killer | TK01 | AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | — | — |
| killer | TK02 | AI Compute Supply Shock (TSMC/Taiwan Disruption) | — | — |
| killer | TK03 | AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | — | — |
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| prereq | 230_020 | Peter's 14-year-old son Milan will never get a driver's license. | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 246_016 | Dragonfly nuclear-powered octicopter arrives at Titan in 2034. | Space | — |
| prereq | 240_036 | TEPCO's restarted reactor will support 20% of Japan's electric needs by 2040 | Energy | — |
| prereq | 232_057 | First person to arrive on moon/Mars will find bed made by Optimus robots; robots not astronauts lead exploration. | Robotics | — |
| prereq | 242_023 | World will have 10x more wealth around 2034-2036 | Macro/Economy | — |
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