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The path to the abundant end-state will include diverse mutually-exclusive nation-state/business paths

Predictor: Alex Wissner-Gross · ep#238 "Meta Buys Moltbook, GPT 5.4, and Fruitfly Brain Upload | Moonshots Live at The Abundance Summit 238" · source

Prior probability
45.0%
Current probability
39.1%
evolves via intake + LBP
Conviction
3/5
Signal quality
C
Resolution
pending
Window
— – —
Edges in / out
8 / 5
Tickers exposed
33

Prediction text

The path to the abundant end-state will include diverse mutually-exclusive nation-state/business paths | Probably what happens is lots of different businesses and lots of different nation states all take different mutually exclusive path. We try every so one big path integral from here to the end point that we all know that we're going to.

Verbatim quote

From episode "Meta Buys Moltbook, GPT 5.4, and Fruitfly Brain Upload | Moonshots Live at The Abundance Summit 238"
Probably what happens is lots of different businesses and lots of different nation states all take different mutually exclusive path. We try every so one big path integral from here to the end point that we all know that we're going to.

Predictor: Alex Wissner-Gross

κ + Brier as of 2026-05-22
κ (discount)
0.844
Brier
0.0341
excellent
Hits / Misses
6 / 1
of 11 resolved
Hit rate
54.5%
Calibration plot (stated vs observed)

Evidence about this node from Alex Wissner-Gross 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

3 prob_history rows
0%25%50%75%100%prior 45%2026-04-302026-04-302026-05-03
intake v2milestone miss sweeplbp propagationreference class assignedlegacy v1prior_prob (analyst seed)current = 39.1%

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: 4 pending
  1. 2026-05-01 → 2026-12-31pendingEU AI Act / US EO 14365 / China Global AI Action Plan codify three structurally distinct regulatory paths
    How: Three blocs (EU, US, China) maintain materially divergent enforcement of AI Act vs. innovation-first EO vs. centralized algorithm-registration regimes per Digital Watch Observatory or NEMKO compliance tracker
    Source: deep_research_enrichedconf 93%
  2. 2026-09-01 → 2027-12-31pendingHiroshima AI Process Friends Group breaks out into multiple sub-blocs (UK/Singapore/Canada vs Gulf states vs G7)
    How: WEF or OECD publishes evidence of >=2 distinct alignment patterns within Hiroshima Process 50+ country signatories on at least one substantive policy (export controls, model registration, safety-testing requirements)
    Source: deep_research_enrichedconf 65%
  3. 2027-01-01 → 2027-12-31pendingUN Global Mechanism on AI in international security holds 2nd standing session with bloc-divergent voting record
    How: UN Global Mechanism (post-March 2026 organisational session) records explicit voting/statement divergence between US-aligned, EU-aligned, and China/G77 blocs on at least 3 substantive AI items
    Source: deep_research_enrichedconf 58%
  4. 2027-06-01 → 2029-12-31pendingMajor business policy split: at least 2 frontier labs publicly announce different national alignment (OpenAI/US vs Mistral/EU vs Zhipu/China)
    How: Major frontier labs explicitly state different jurisdictional/sovereignty alignment in regulatory filings or public letters, mirroring nation-state divergence
    Source: deep_research_enrichedconf 55%

No downstream cascades — this prediction is a leaf in the dependency graph.

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: 39%)

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Evidence chain

Every probability update with full Bayesian provenance — chronological, latest first
LBP2026-05-03T02:00:01Z39.1%-1.3pp
Network propagation: 40.4% → 39.1%
6-iter LBP, residual 0.00677 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run 1a683ac9
LBP2026-04-30T16:39:51Z40.4%-1.8pp
Network propagation: 42.2% → 40.4%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00825 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v2 · run 0c8a4ea3
LBP2026-04-30T02:18:57Z42.2%-2.8pp
Network propagation: 45.0% → 42.2%
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
prereqSEM_042
2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finallKevin Weil
73.8%0.4500.050-0.050
prereq235_038
David Sinclair begins partial epigenetic reprogramming trialPeter Diamandis
74.0%0.4500.050-0.048
prereqSEM_012
Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doublingJensen Huang
75.0%0.4500.050-0.044
prereqSEM_008
Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will coDario Amodei
76.9%0.4500.050-0.037
prereq238_009
Recursive self-improvement is already happening now (no longAlex Wissner-Gross
78.1%0.4500.050-0.032

Top outgoing (children)

Predictions THIS node influences

KindNodeTheir probP(c|s=T)P(c|s=F)Δ implied
prereq246_016
Dragonfly nuclear-powered octicopter arrives at Titan in 203Peter Diamandis
35.6%0.6500.050-0.077
prereq235_030
Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 203Ray Kurzweil
39.2%0.7500.050-0.075
prereq240_036
TEPCO's restarted reactor will support 20% of Japan's electrPeter Diamandis
34.3%0.6500.050-0.064
prereq239_008
Moon base will exist in 10 yearsElon Musk
28.8%0.5500.050-0.047
prereqSEM_034
True artificial general intelligence will be achieved betweeDemis Hassabis
28.7%0.5500.050-0.046

Ticker exposure

33 ticker(s) linked

Beneficiaries (23)

SOUNCRWVSITMNVDAARMGTLBBBAITSMAPLDCEVAAIMSFTMRVLSFTBYORCLQCOMAVGOBABAAMDGOOGLIBMAMZNMETA

Adverse (6)

WNSCHGGCTSHIBMINFYACN

Prerequisites (8)

Predictions that must hit first
TypePredTitleDomainLag
prereq238_009Recursive self-improvement is already happening now (no longer three years out)AI
prereq235_038David Sinclair begins partial epigenetic reprogramming trials with Life Biosciences in March 2026.Biotech/Longevity
prereqSEM_008Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will commence sometime in 2025.AI
prereqSEM_012Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) across engineering.AI/Manufacturing
prereqSEM_0422025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream.AI/Agents
killerTK14Superbubble Pop (S&P 500 -40%, Moonshot Capital Evaporates)
killerTK01AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall)
killerTK03AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze)

Dependents (5)

Predictions enabled by this
TypePredTitleDomainLag
prereq235_030Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 2033.Biotech/Longevity
prereq246_016Dragonfly nuclear-powered octicopter arrives at Titan in 2034.Space
prereq240_036TEPCO's restarted reactor will support 20% of Japan's electric needs by 2040Energy
prereqSEM_034True artificial general intelligence will be achieved between 2032 and 2042 — 'first we solve AI, then use AI to solve everything else'.AI/AGI
prereq239_008Moon base will exist in 10 yearsSpace

Linked documents (7)

Auto-generated by cosine similarity from Polymarket / Manifold / EDGAR / GDELT
SimSourceTitleMarket probPolarityReviewedPublished
0.579arxivMulti-entropy in random tensor networksmentionspending2026-06-03
0.568arxivEmergent Closed Universes in Symmetric Orbifold CFTsmentionspending2026-06-03
0.562arxivPositivity of the gravitational path integral implies the axionic weak gravity conjecturementionspending2026-05-06
0.561arxivBaby Universe in a Coupled SYK Modelmentionspending2026-05-06
0.560arxivNon-Perturbative Closed Form for the Typical Bipartite Mutual Information of Haar-Random Statesmentionspending2026-05-28
0.558arxivThe Double Well Done Doubly-Wellmentionspending2026-06-03
0.528arxivHidden Ising models from the generalized Yang-Baxter equationmentionspending2026-05-28

Raw metadata

From Thesis_Timeline_v1.0_FINAL workbook
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      "weight": 0.4,
      "ordinal": -1,
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      "confidence": 0.55,
      "source_url": "https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/eight-ways-ai-will-shape-geopolitics-in-2026/",
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