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Everyone is underestimating the next year of AI improvements (more than 2x gain)

Predictor: Dave Blundin · ep#240 "NVIDIA's $1 Trillion Prediction, Anthropic Beats OpenAI, Tesla vs. TSMC & The CS Job Collapse" · source

Prior probability
60.0%
Current probability
49.5%
evolves via intake + LBP
Conviction
4/5
Signal quality
B
Resolution
pending
Window
2026-01-01 – 2027-11-30
Edges in / out
10 / 5
Tickers exposed
37

Prediction text

Everyone is underestimating the next year of AI improvements (more than 2x gain) | that's also why everyone's really underestimating the next year because we did a 1000x like what are you expecting in the next year? Oh 2x like what are you talking about?

Verbatim quote

From episode "NVIDIA's $1 Trillion Prediction, Anthropic Beats OpenAI, Tesla vs. TSMC & The CS Job Collapse"
that's also why everyone's really underestimating the next year because we did a 1000x like what are you expecting in the next year? Oh 2x like what are you talking about?

Predictor: Dave Blundin

κ + Brier as of 2026-05-22
κ (discount)
0.821
Brier
0.0491
excellent
Hits / Misses
3 / 2
of 9 resolved
Hit rate
33.3%
Calibration plot (stated vs observed)

Evidence about this node from Dave Blundin 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

4 prob_history rows
0%25%50%75%100%prior 60%2026-04-302026-05-032026-05-10
intake v2milestone miss sweeplbp propagationreference class assignedlegacy v1prior_prob (analyst seed)current = 49.5%

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 fired ✓ · 2 pending
  1. 2026-04-15hitARC-AGI-2 doubles year-over-year
    How: Best ARC-AGI-2 score reaches 77.1% (Gemini 3.1 Pro), double its predecessor
    Source: LM Council Benchmarks — 'Gemini 3.1 Pro 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, double predecessor'conf 95%
  2. 2026-04-23hitGPT-5.5 ships with massive coding/reasoning benchmark gains
    How: OpenAI ships GPT-5.5 scoring 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 (up from 75.1% GPT-5.4) and 74.0% on 1M-token MRCR v2 (up from 36.6%)
    Source: Artificial Analysis — 'OpenAI's GPT-5.5 is the new leading AI model'conf 99%
    Notes: HIT — direct evidence of >2x improvement on long-context reasoning benchmark.
  3. 2026-04-30hitHumanity's Last Exam top score crosses 50% threshold
    How: Top frontier model achieves >=50% on Humanity's Last Exam vs 38.3% Stanford 2025 baseline (Claude Opus 4.6 / Gemini 3.1 Pro)
    Source: IEEE Spectrum — 'Stanford's AI Index 2026' + LM Council Benchmarksconf 95%
  4. 2026-06-01 → 2027-06-30pendingAI investment exceeds $700B annualized run-rate
    How: Stanford AI Index or equivalent confirms 2026 AI investment >=$700B (vs $581B in 2025, $253B in 2024) — ~20% YoY growth above already-record base
    Source: Build Fast — 'Best AI Models April 2026' + Stanford Index trajectoryconf 70%
  5. 2027-04-01 → 2027-12-31pendingTop-tier benchmark performance growth >=2x by mid-2027
    How: Top-of-leaderboard scores on SWE-bench Verified, ARC-AGI-2, and HLE all show >=2x improvement vs April 2026 baselines
    Source: Trend extrapolation from 2025-2026 capability curveconf 55%
    Notes: Validates Blundin's '>2x next year' thesis if borne out across major benchmarks.

What if this resolves?

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(live posterior: 50%)

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Evidence chain

Every probability update with full Bayesian provenance — chronological, latest first
LBP2026-05-10T02:00:02Z49.5%-1.2pp
Network propagation: 50.7% → 49.5%
6-iter LBP, residual 0.00584 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run e5c18d29
LBP2026-05-03T02:00:01Z50.7%-2.2pp
Network propagation: 52.9% → 50.7%
6-iter LBP, residual 0.00677 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run 1a683ac9
LBP2026-04-30T16:39:51Z52.9%-2.9pp
Network propagation: 55.8% → 52.9%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00825 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v2 · run 0c8a4ea3
LBP2026-04-30T02:18:57Z55.8%-4.2pp
Network propagation: 60.0% → 55.8%
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
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Top incoming (parents)

Edges that influence THIS node's belief

KindNodeTheir probP(c|s=T)P(c|s=F)Δ implied
killerTK09
Energy Grid Cap (Data Center Power Wall)
35.0%0.0500.600-0.088
prereqSEM_015
Nvidia agreed to remit 15% of China chip-sale revenue directJensen Huang
66.3%0.6000.050-0.076
prereqSEM_027
Nvidia Data Center revenue +66% YoY, contributing ~90% of $5Joseph Moore
68.3%0.6000.050-0.075
killerTK05
Rate Regime Persistence (10y > 5% through 2028)
30.0%0.0500.600-0.060
killerTK03
AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze)
10.0%0.0500.600+0.050

Top outgoing (children)

Predictions THIS node influences

KindNodeTheir probP(c|s=T)P(c|s=F)Δ implied
prereq248_033
Superhuman AI will make BCI-enhanced humans irrelevant compaDave Blundin
36.7%0.6000.050-0.049
prereq242_031
Most large companies' business models will be disrupted in 2Peter Diamandis
36.1%0.6500.050-0.018
prereq232_055
We're exiting the industrial age permanently as recursive sePeter Diamandis
35.5%0.7000.050+0.013
prereq244_019
Peter's son won't need a driver's license in 2 yearsPeter Diamandis
48.4%0.9200.050-0.010
prereq230_020
Peter's 14-year-old son Milan will never get a driver's licePeter Diamandis
34.7%0.6500.050-0.004

Ticker exposure

37 ticker(s) linked

Beneficiaries (24)

MUWULFIRENEQIXALABAPLDASMIYASMLPLABNVDANBISCRWVAAPLAMTAMZNDELLGOOGLIRMLNVGYMETAMSFTORCLSFTBYSTX

Adverse (6)

ACNGENCHGGIBMWNSLRN

Prerequisites (10)

Predictions that must hit first
TypePredTitleDomainLag
prereqSEM_011Nvidia became the world's first $5 trillion company (late 2025), operating a near-monopoly on advanced AI chips.Capital Markets
prereqSEM_027Nvidia Data Center revenue +66% YoY, contributing ~90% of $57B fiscal Q3 revenue; >$4.5T market cap entirely underpinned by AI silicon.Capital Markets
prereqSEM_014Nvidia's Arizona-based TSMC factory successfully fabricated cutting-edge semiconductors on US soil for first time in decades (October 2025).Manufacturing
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_015Nvidia agreed to remit 15% of China chip-sale revenue directly to US government in exchange for reversing specific AI chip export bans.Policy/Semis
killerTK09Energy Grid Cap (Data Center Power Wall)
killerTK05Rate Regime Persistence (10y > 5% through 2028)
killerTK01AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall)
killerTK02AI Compute Supply Shock (TSMC/Taiwan Disruption)
killerTK03AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze)

Dependents (5)

Predictions enabled by this
TypePredTitleDomainLag
prereq244_019Peter's son won't need a driver's license in 2 yearsAuto/Transport
prereq232_055We're exiting the industrial age permanently as recursive self-improvement unfolds.AI
prereq242_031Most large companies' business models will be disrupted in 2-5 yearsMarkets/Stocks
prereq230_020Peter's 14-year-old son Milan will never get a driver's license.Auto/Transport
prereq248_033Superhuman AI will make BCI-enhanced humans irrelevant compared to AI 2 years from today.AI

Linked documents (6)

Auto-generated by cosine similarity from Polymarket / Manifold / EDGAR / GDELT
SimSourceTitleMarket probPolarityReviewedPublished
0.620manifoldWill "Maybe I was too harsh on deep learning theory..." make the top fifty posts in LessWrong's 2026 Annual Review?11%mentionspending2026-05-11
0.618github_releasefacebookresearch/neuroai v0.2.1mentionspending2026-05-14
0.611arxivNegation Neglect: When models fail to learn negations in trainingmentionspending2026-05-13
0.605github_releasepytorch/pytorch v2.2.0mentionspending2024-01-30
0.579manifoldWill "Forecasting is Way Overrated, and We Should S..." make the top fifty posts in LessWrong's 2026 Annual Review?20%mentionspending2026-04-26
0.566github_releasepytorch/pytorch v1.13.1mentionspending2022-12-16

Raw metadata

From Thesis_Timeline_v1.0_FINAL workbook
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