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
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
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
Salim's son 2y horizon — same as above.
Predictor: Salim Ismail
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
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Probability over time
Milestone chain
No upstream prereqs identified — milestones are derived from window quartiles only.
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Evidence chain
Raw metadata
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"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 incoming (parents)
Edges that influence THIS node's belief
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 244_013 Uber will work with Chinese autonomous players (Pony, WeRide — Dara Khosrowshahi | 47.0% | 0.920 | 0.050 | -0.261 |
| prereq | 243_033 About 20% of drivers slough off Uber platform annually — Dara Khosrowshahi | 48.9% | 0.920 | 0.050 | -0.245 |
| prereq | 243_035 Austin and Atlanta autonomous markets growing faster than na — Dara Khosrowshahi | 50.3% | 0.920 | 0.050 | -0.221 |
| prereq | 241_050 AI LLMs can run for hours (e.g., dinner to 4am) autonomously — Eric Schmidt | 56.7% | 0.920 | 0.050 | -0.174 |
| killer | TK06 China-Taiwan Military Conflict | 8.0% | 0.050 | 0.920 | +0.139 |
Top outgoing (children)
Predictions THIS node influences
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 230_020 Peter's 14-year-old son Milan will never get a driver's lice — Peter Diamandis | 34.7% | 0.650 | 0.050 | +0.124 |
| prereq | 244_002 Humans will be demonstrably less safe than autonomous driver — Dara Khosrowshahi | 37.6% | 0.600 | 0.050 | +0.060 |
| prereq | 243_013 Every new car sold 10 years from now will have autonomous so — Dara Khosrowshahi | 41.0% | 0.600 | 0.050 | +0.025 |
| prereq | 243_017 Cost of lidar and cameras will continue coming down, making — Dara Khosrowshahi | 41.6% | 0.600 | 0.050 | +0.020 |
| prereq | 243_031 Uber will have significantly more drivers in 2030 than today — Dara Khosrowshahi | 46.3% | 0.650 | 0.050 | +0.007 |
Ticker exposure
Beneficiaries (24)
Adverse (5)
Prerequisites (12)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 243_002 | Uber will be in 15 cities with autonomous partners by end of 2026 | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | SEM_008 | Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will commence sometime in 2025. | AI | — |
| prereq | 234_012 | Anthropic revenue will cross OpenAI revenue in middle of 2026 | Markets/Stocks | — |
| prereq | 235_002 | Anthropic will exceed OpenAI in revenue this year (2026). | 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 | — |
| prereq | 241_050 | AI LLMs can run for hours (e.g., dinner to 4am) autonomously creating new solutions | AI | — |
| prereq | 243_035 | Austin and Atlanta autonomous markets growing faster than national average | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 243_033 | About 20% of drivers slough off Uber platform annually | Labor/Jobs | — |
| prereq | 244_013 | Uber will work with Chinese autonomous players (Pony, WeRide, hopefully Baidu) outside the US | Auto/Transport | — |
| killer | TK11 | Autonomous Regulatory Block (Level 4 Halt) | — | — |
| killer | TK06 | China-Taiwan Military Conflict | — | — |
Dependents (5)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 230_020 | Peter's 14-year-old son Milan will never get a driver's license. | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 243_031 | Uber will have significantly more drivers in 2030 than today, including in US | Labor/Jobs | — |
| prereq | 243_013 | Every new car sold 10 years from now will have autonomous software | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 243_017 | Cost of lidar and cameras will continue coming down, making new cars autonomous-ready within 10 years | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 244_002 | Humans will be demonstrably less safe than autonomous drivers (within 25 years, not 15) | Auto/Transport | — |
Validations (1)
| Observed at | Status | By | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | hit | thesis_timeline_v1.0_import | Salim's son 2y horizon — same as above. |
Linked documents (1)
| Sim | Source | Title | Market prob | Polarity | Reviewed | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.555 | manifold | What time will my 13 year old son leave the house for his paper round on Wednesday 13th May? | — | mentions | pending | 2026-05-11 |
Raw metadata
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