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
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
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
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Probability over time
Milestone chain
- 2026-05-01 → 2026-12-31pendingEU AI Act / US EO 14365 / China Global AI Action Plan codify three structurally distinct regulatory pathsHow: 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 trackerSource: deep_research_enrichedconf 93%
- 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%
- 2027-01-01 → 2027-12-31pendingUN Global Mechanism on AI in international security holds 2nd standing session with bloc-divergent voting recordHow: 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 itemsSource: deep_research_enrichedconf 58%
- 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 divergenceSource: deep_research_enrichedconf 55%
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Evidence chain
Network propagation neighbors
Top incoming (parents)
Edges that influence THIS node's belief
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | SEM_042 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finall — Kevin Weil | 73.8% | 0.450 | 0.050 | -0.050 |
| prereq | 235_038 David Sinclair begins partial epigenetic reprogramming trial — Peter Diamandis | 74.0% | 0.450 | 0.050 | -0.048 |
| prereq | SEM_012 Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling — Jensen Huang | 75.0% | 0.450 | 0.050 | -0.044 |
| prereq | SEM_008 Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will co — Dario Amodei | 76.9% | 0.450 | 0.050 | -0.037 |
| prereq | 238_009 Recursive self-improvement is already happening now (no long — Alex Wissner-Gross | 78.1% | 0.450 | 0.050 | -0.032 |
Top outgoing (children)
Predictions THIS node influences
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 246_016 Dragonfly nuclear-powered octicopter arrives at Titan in 203 — Peter Diamandis | 35.6% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.077 |
| prereq | 235_030 Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 203 — Ray Kurzweil | 39.2% | 0.750 | 0.050 | -0.075 |
| prereq | 240_036 TEPCO's restarted reactor will support 20% of Japan's electr — Peter Diamandis | 34.3% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.064 |
| prereq | 239_008 Moon base will exist in 10 years — Elon Musk | 28.8% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.047 |
| prereq | SEM_034 True artificial general intelligence will be achieved betwee — Demis Hassabis | 28.7% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.046 |
Ticker exposure
Beneficiaries (23)
Adverse (6)
Prerequisites (8)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 238_009 | Recursive self-improvement is already happening now (no longer three years out) | AI | — |
| prereq | 235_038 | David Sinclair begins partial epigenetic reprogramming trials with Life Biosciences in March 2026. | Biotech/Longevity | — |
| prereq | SEM_008 | Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will commence sometime in 2025. | AI | — |
| 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_042 | 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. | AI/Agents | — |
| killer | TK14 | Superbubble Pop (S&P 500 -40%, Moonshot Capital Evaporates) | — | — |
| killer | TK01 | AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | — | — |
| killer | TK03 | AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | — | — |
Dependents (5)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 235_030 | Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 2033. | Biotech/Longevity | — |
| 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 | SEM_034 | True artificial general intelligence will be achieved between 2032 and 2042 — 'first we solve AI, then use AI to solve everything else'. | AI/AGI | — |
| prereq | 239_008 | Moon base will exist in 10 years | Space | — |
Linked documents (7)
| Sim | Source | Title | Market prob | Polarity | Reviewed | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.579 | arxiv | Multi-entropy in random tensor networks | — | mentions | pending | 2026-06-03 |
| 0.568 | arxiv | Emergent Closed Universes in Symmetric Orbifold CFTs | — | mentions | pending | 2026-06-03 |
| 0.562 | arxiv | Positivity of the gravitational path integral implies the axionic weak gravity conjecture | — | mentions | pending | 2026-05-06 |
| 0.561 | arxiv | Baby Universe in a Coupled SYK Model | — | mentions | pending | 2026-05-06 |
| 0.560 | arxiv | Non-Perturbative Closed Form for the Typical Bipartite Mutual Information of Haar-Random States | — | mentions | pending | 2026-05-28 |
| 0.558 | arxiv | The Double Well Done Doubly-Well | — | mentions | pending | 2026-06-03 |
| 0.528 | arxiv | Hidden Ising models from the generalized Yang-Baxter equation | — | mentions | pending | 2026-05-28 |
Raw metadata
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"context": "I tend to think that if you know or or you're very confident that you know where the end state is and we're sort of living in the prequel to the future, but we know how the story ends. Probably what happens is lots of different businesses and lots of different nation states all take different mutually exclusive path.",
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