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Full autonomy achieved within 2 years before Salim's son gets driver's license

Predictor: Salim Ismail · ep#242 "Elon Enters the Chip Race, the S&P 500 Repricing, and Human Drivers Will Become Illegal | EP #242" · source

Prior probability
92.0%
Current probability
71.2%
evolves via intake + LBP
Conviction
3/5
Signal quality
B
Resolution
hit
Window
2028-01-01 – 2028-10-31
Edges in / out
12 / 5
Tickers exposed
31

Prediction text

Full autonomy achieved within 2 years before Salim's son gets driver's license | I've got my 2 years for us to get to full autonomy before my son gets his driver's license. He's 14 right now.

Verbatim quote

From episode "Elon Enters the Chip Race, the S&P 500 Repricing, and Human Drivers Will Become Illegal | EP #242"
I've got my 2 years for us to get to full autonomy before my son gets his driver's license. He's 14 right now.

Resolution evidence

Status: hit

Salim's son 2y horizon — same as above.

Predictor: Salim Ismail

κ + Brier as of 2026-05-22
κ (discount)
0.643
Brier
0.0144
excellent
Hits / Misses
1 / 0
of 2 resolved
Hit rate
50.0%
Calibration plot (stated vs observed)

Evidence about this node from Salim Ismail 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

6 prob_history rows
0%25%50%75%100%prior 92%2026-04-292026-05-032026-05-17
intake v2milestone miss sweeplbp propagationreference class assignedlegacy v1prior_prob (analyst seed)current = 71.2%

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.
No leading signals identified yet.

No upstream prereqs identified — milestones are derived from window quartiles only.

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: 71%)

Click a button to clamp this prediction and run a Gibbs sample. Returns the predictions whose marginals shift most. ~30s per run; ideal for stress-testing "if X resolves, what else moves?"

Evidence chain

Every probability update with full Bayesian provenance — chronological, latest first
LBP2026-05-17T02:00:01Z71.2%-1.8pp
Network propagation: 73.0% → 71.2%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00689 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run e607fa96
LBP2026-05-10T02:00:02Z73.0%-2.9pp
Network propagation: 75.8% → 73.0%
6-iter LBP, residual 0.00584 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run e5c18d29
LBP2026-05-03T02:00:01Z75.8%-4.2pp
Network propagation: 80.1% → 75.8%
6-iter LBP, residual 0.00677 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run 1a683ac9
LBP2026-04-30T16:39:51Z80.1%-5.2pp
Network propagation: 85.3% → 80.1%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00825 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v2 · run 0c8a4ea3
LBP2026-04-30T02:18:57Z85.3%-6.7pp
Network propagation: 92.0% → 85.3%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00825 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v1 · run 592311ef
resolution_terminal2026-04-29T22:23:17Z100.0%+19.9pp
resolution_terminal hit outcome=1.0 pre_resolution=0.801
Raw metadata
{
  "source": "backfill_resolution_history.py",
  "status": "hit",
  "bayesian_v2": false,
  "outcome_prob": 1,
  "evidence_kind": "resolution_terminal",
  "posterior_prob": 1,
  "delta_to_outcome": 0.19921999999999995,
  "inside_posterior": 0.80078,
  "validation_notes": "Salim's son 2y horizon — same as above.",
  "validation_status": "hit",
  "pre_resolution_prob": 0.80078,
  "resolution_evidence": "Salim's son 2y horizon — same as above.",
  "does_not_update_current_prob": true
}

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
prereq244_013
Uber will work with Chinese autonomous players (Pony, WeRideDara Khosrowshahi
47.0%0.9200.050-0.261
prereq243_033
About 20% of drivers slough off Uber platform annuallyDara Khosrowshahi
48.9%0.9200.050-0.245
prereq243_035
Austin and Atlanta autonomous markets growing faster than naDara Khosrowshahi
50.3%0.9200.050-0.221
prereq241_050
AI LLMs can run for hours (e.g., dinner to 4am) autonomouslyEric Schmidt
56.7%0.9200.050-0.174
killerTK06
China-Taiwan Military Conflict
8.0%0.0500.920+0.139

Top outgoing (children)

Predictions THIS node influences

KindNodeTheir probP(c|s=T)P(c|s=F)Δ implied
prereq230_020
Peter's 14-year-old son Milan will never get a driver's licePeter Diamandis
34.7%0.6500.050+0.124
prereq244_002
Humans will be demonstrably less safe than autonomous driverDara Khosrowshahi
37.6%0.6000.050+0.060
prereq243_013
Every new car sold 10 years from now will have autonomous soDara Khosrowshahi
41.0%0.6000.050+0.025
prereq243_017
Cost of lidar and cameras will continue coming down, making Dara Khosrowshahi
41.6%0.6000.050+0.020
prereq243_031
Uber will have significantly more drivers in 2030 than todayDara Khosrowshahi
46.3%0.6500.050+0.007

Ticker exposure

31 ticker(s) linked

Beneficiaries (24)

INVZWRDLIDRAEVAMBLYPONYOUSTVRRMAMBAAURAIOTHSAIMBGAFBIDUBMWYYGMGOOGLHMCIOTQCOMTMTSLAUBERVWAGY

Adverse (5)

MCYALLCINFPGRTRV

Prerequisites (12)

Predictions that must hit first
TypePredTitleDomainLag
prereq243_002Uber will be in 15 cities with autonomous partners by end of 2026Auto/Transport
prereqSEM_008Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will commence sometime in 2025.AI
prereq234_012Anthropic revenue will cross OpenAI revenue in middle of 2026Markets/Stocks
prereq235_002Anthropic will exceed OpenAI in revenue this year (2026).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
prereq241_050AI LLMs can run for hours (e.g., dinner to 4am) autonomously creating new solutionsAI
prereq243_035Austin and Atlanta autonomous markets growing faster than national averageAuto/Transport
prereq243_033About 20% of drivers slough off Uber platform annuallyLabor/Jobs
prereq244_013Uber will work with Chinese autonomous players (Pony, WeRide, hopefully Baidu) outside the USAuto/Transport
killerTK11Autonomous Regulatory Block (Level 4 Halt)
killerTK06China-Taiwan Military Conflict

Dependents (5)

Predictions enabled by this
TypePredTitleDomainLag
prereq230_020Peter's 14-year-old son Milan will never get a driver's license.Auto/Transport
prereq243_031Uber will have significantly more drivers in 2030 than today, including in USLabor/Jobs
prereq243_013Every new car sold 10 years from now will have autonomous softwareAuto/Transport
prereq243_017Cost of lidar and cameras will continue coming down, making new cars autonomous-ready within 10 yearsAuto/Transport
prereq244_002Humans will be demonstrably less safe than autonomous drivers (within 25 years, not 15)Auto/Transport

Validations (1)

Resolution events
Observed atStatusByNotes
2026-04-29hitthesis_timeline_v1.0_importSalim's son 2y horizon — same as above.

Linked documents (1)

Auto-generated by cosine similarity from Polymarket / Manifold / EDGAR / GDELT
SimSourceTitleMarket probPolarityReviewedPublished
0.555manifoldWhat time will my 13 year old son leave the house for his paper round on Wednesday 13th May?mentionspending2026-05-11

Raw metadata

From Thesis_Timeline_v1.0_FINAL workbook
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