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USA will collapse before the People's Republic of China.

Created by Anubhav on 2012-02-04; known on 2030-01-01

  • Anubhav estimated 70% on 2012-02-04
  • Anubhav changed the deadline from “on 2030-01-01” and changed their prediction from “USA will collapse before China.” on 2012-02-04
  • Anubhav said “By ‘collapse’, I mean ‘political collapse’ (revolution/mass secessions). Prediction short-circuits when either of these countries collapses.on 2012-02-04
  • gwern estimated 35% and said “china looks a heck of a lot more fragile than the us – the us isn’t surpressing thousands of demonstrations and ‘incidents’ a yearon 2012-02-04
  • chemotaxis101 estimated 20% on 2012-02-04
  • RobertLumley estimated 40% on 2012-02-04
  • JoshuaZ said “How will this be judged if neither collapses before that point? on 2012-02-04
  • Anubhav said “Joshua: Deadline keeps getting extended until one of them collapses.on 2012-02-06
  • JoshuaZ estimated 35% on 2012-02-06
  • Anubhav estimated 50% and said “I couldn’t remember why I’d placed the high estimate, so I looked over the stuff I’d read 4 days ago. Found this: http://bit.ly/wunBEP Looks like I outsourced reasoning to outrage and cached thoughts. on 2012-02-08
  • Jayson Virissimo estimated 40% on 2012-02-08
  • ahartell estimated 30% on 2012-02-09
  • antsan estimated 25% on 2012-02-21
  • najdorf estimated 49% on 2013-02-06
  • Tuxedage estimated 75% on 2013-02-07
  • seifip estimated 10% on 2013-04-14
  • btrettel estimated 30% on 2015-07-26
  • themusicgod1 estimated 42% on 2016-04-15
  • pranomostro estimated 20% on 2018-12-15
  • Baeboo estimated 35% on 2018-12-15
  • najdorf estimated 99% on 2020-09-04