Statistics
Confidence | 50% | 60% | 70% | 80% | 90% | 100% | Total |
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Accuracy | 50% | 59% | 67% | 77% | 88% | 92% | |
Sample Size | 11812 | 16505 | 16980 | 17616 | 31357 | 8046 | 102316 |
Recent Predictions
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Joseph is at Elizabeth's apartment ( 40% confidence )
Created by RobertLumley on 2012-01-08; known on 2012-01-08; judged wrong by RobertLumley on 2012-01-08.
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Within 3 years, at least 3 manga English distributors will go out of business or stop publishing. ( 33% confidence; 3 comments )
Created by kiba on 2012-01-08; known on 2015-01-08.
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Night 8: pill was Vitamin D ( 40% confidence )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-08; known on 2012-01-08; judged wrong by gwern on 2012-01-08.
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Tomorrow morning, I will have negative karma on LessWrong. ( 19% confidence; 4 wagers; 3 comments )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-08; known on 2012-01-09; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2012-01-09.
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Copyright ruled unconstitutional by a US court before 2016. ( 0% confidence; 9 wagers; 5 comments )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-08; known on 2016-01-01; judged wrong by kuudes on 2016-01-01.
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Copyright is challenged in a US court as unconstitutional before 2016. The case is not dismissed without hearing. ( 30% confidence; 2 wagers; 7 comments )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-08; known on 2016-01-01; judged wrong by PseudonymousUser on 2016-01-07.
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Copyright is challenged in a US court as unconstitutional before 2013. The case is not dismissed without hearing. ( 12% confidence; 2 wagers; 2 comments )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-08; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by gwern on 2013-01-26.
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Googling 'real websites' will throw up at least one amusing hit or autocomplete. (only first-page hits count) ( 20% confidence )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-08; known on 2012-01-08; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2012-01-08.
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Googling 'real websites' will throw up at least one bizarre hit or autocomplete. (only first-page hits count) ( 60% confidence; 1 comment )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-08; known on 2012-01-08; judged right by Anubhav on 2012-01-08.
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I will become a Peter Thiel Fellow. ( 4% confidence; 3 wagers; 2 comments )
Created by Grognor on 2012-01-08; known on 2012-08-06; judged wrong by Grognor on 2012-03-05.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0fyO6ypVYI This super-awesome YouTube video will be taken down by the end of the year. ( 14% confidence; 2 wagers; 2 comments )
Created by Grognor on 2012-01-08; known on 2012-12-31; judged right by Grognor on 2012-06-14.
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I will enjoy this random youtube thing. ( 20% confidence )
Created by yurifury on 2012-01-08; known on 2012-01-08; judged wrong by yurifury on 2012-01-08.
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Part 2 of Shikamaru vs the Logical Fallacies to be ready within 2 months ( 60% confidence; 1 comment )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-08; known on 2012-03-08; judged wrong by gwern on 2012-03-08.
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Part 2 of Shikamaru vs the Logical Fallacies to be ready within a month ( 45% confidence )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-08; known on 2012-02-08; judged wrong by gwern on 2012-02-08.
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The bitcoin protocol will have a fatal weakness that is discovered, leading to the crash of the bitcoin economy. End of year prediction. ( 3% confidence; 15 wagers; 6 comments )
Created by kiba on 2012-01-07; known on 2012-12-30; judged wrong by Qiaochu on 2012-12-31.
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Night 7: pill was Vitamin D ( 35% confidence )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-07; known on 2012-01-07; judged wrong by gwern on 2012-01-07.
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Yoshimoto Banana will win a Nobel Prize for Literature. ( 0% confidence; 2 wagers; 2 comments )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-07; known on 2046-01-01.
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Won't have broadband tomorrow morning. ( 90% confidence; 1 comment )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-07; known on 2012-01-08; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2012-01-08.
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There will be a general strike in Spain on 2012 ( 57% confidence; 2 wagers; 3 comments )
Created by modulus on 2012-01-07; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by modulus on 2012-03-09.
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The future of the Euro: Germany / Netherlands abandon Euro and form new currency / currencies. Remaining currencies also abandon the Euro and relaunch national currencies. ( 19% confidence; 3 wagers )
Created by siscoking on 2012-01-07; known on 2014-01-16; judged wrong by ygert on 2014-02-02.
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The future of the Euro: Germany / Netherlands abandon Euro and form new currency / currencies. Remaining countries retain the Euro as a currency of the smaller Euro zone, without Germany. ( 18% confidence; 3 wagers; 2 comments )
Created by siscoking on 2012-01-07; known on 2014-01-16; judged wrong by ygert on 2014-02-02.
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Will try out Trello today. ( 50% confidence )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-07; known on 2012-01-08; judged right by Anubhav on 2012-01-07.
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The future of the Euro: Pheripheral countries leave, Germany and France lead move to fiscal union. Smaller Euro survives. ( 50% confidence; 1 comment )
Created by siscoking on 2012-01-07; known on 2014-01-16; judged wrong by ygert on 2014-02-02.
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Will have changed Windows' display language to Japanese by next Sunday. ( 50% confidence )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-07; known on 2012-01-15; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2012-01-15.
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The future of the Euro: “Euro survives”. ( 77% confidence; 6 wagers; 8 comments )
Created by siscoking on 2012-01-07; known on 2014-01-16; judged right by ygert on 2014-02-02.
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Reading my classmates’ public argument on Facebook will amuse me greatly ( 20% confidence )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-07; known on 2012-01-07; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2012-01-07.
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Reading my classmates' public argument on Facebook will amuse me moderately. ( 50% confidence )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-07; known on 2012-01-07; judged right by Anubhav on 2012-01-07.
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Stats assignment for today will include χ^2 or student's-t distributions. ( 10% confidence )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-07; known on 2012-01-07; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2012-01-07.
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Electronics project due Wednesday. ( 70% confidence )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-07; known on 2012-01-07; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2012-01-07.
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Riemann's Hypothesis and Goldbach's Conjecture will be resolved before a proof is found of whether White wins or ties chess. —Doron Zeilberger ( 29% confidence; 4 wagers; 4 comments )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-06; known on 2112-01-06.
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Night 6: pill was Vitamin D ( 50% confidence )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-06; known on 2012-01-06; judged right by gwern on 2012-01-06.
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I will regret not attending the IAI President's speech. ( 5% confidence; 2 wagers )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-06; known on 2012-01-30; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2012-01-29.
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Someone from the IAI will ring me up on the day of the President's speech. The call will be regarding my non-attendance. ( 20% confidence )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-06; known on 2012-01-09; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2012-01-08.
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'Ame Nochi Kumochi Nochi Hare' was the theme song of one of the 'Aa Megamisama' animes/OVAs. ( 60% confidence; 1 comment )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-06; known on 2012-01-06; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2012-01-06.
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I will have stopped wasting time on Omegle by 2:30. (It's 1:25 now.) ( 40% confidence; 1 comment )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-06; known on 2012-01-06; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2012-01-06.
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The Bitcoin price will hit 8 $/฿ in January 2012 UTC. ( 55% confidence; 11 wagers; 3 comments )
Created by Mqrius on 2012-01-06; known on 2012-02-01; judged wrong by gwern on 2012-02-01.
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Bitcoin >$9000 by February. ( 0% confidence; 16 wagers; 9 comments )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-06; known on 2012-02-01; judged wrong by gwern on 2012-02-01.
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Ballmer will step down as MS CEO and be replaced by Eric Schmidt —Cringely ( 7% confidence; 2 wagers; 1 comment )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-05; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by gwern on 2013-01-01.
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“A new Microsoft CEO” [Ballmer steps down] —Cringely ( 20% confidence; 2 wagers; 6 comments )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-05; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by gwern on 2013-01-01.
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“Facebook will back into an IPO by buying Yahoo” —Mr Windows ( 4% confidence; 3 wagers; 1 comment )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-05; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by gwern on 2012-02-02.
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“No IPO for Facebook” —Cringely ( 38% confidence; 3 wagers; 4 comments )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-05; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by gwern on 2012-02-02.
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“Leprechauns” (http://leanpub.com/leprechauns) will top the $720 in sales suggested by pre-publication declarations of interest (60 interested readers at an average of $12), within two weeks. ( 16% confidence; 3 wagers; 1 comment )
Created by Laurent Bossavit on 2012-01-05; known on 2012-01-19; judged wrong by Laurent Bossavit on 2012-01-24.
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The US Mint has resumed printing $2 bills since I checked in 2005 (thus explaining the new-looking $2 I received as change at IFC). ( 75% confidence; 1 comment )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-05; known on 2012-01-05; judged right by gwern on 2012-01-05.
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The IFC Center will detect me sneaking into the second movie & kick me out. ( 30% confidence )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-05; known on 2012-01-05; judged wrong by gwern on 2012-01-05.
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Night 5: pill was vitamin D. ( 60% confidence )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-05; known on 2012-01-05; judged wrong by gwern on 2012-01-05.
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I will continue wasting time on Omegle until 8 PM. (It's 5 PM now.) ( 70% confidence; 1 comment )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-05; known on 2012-01-05; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2012-01-05.
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The Bitcoin price will hit 7 $/฿ in January 2012 UTC. ( 80% confidence; 2 comments )
Created by Mqrius on 2012-01-05; known on 2012-02-01; judged right by PseudonymousUser on 2012-01-06.
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I will be able to solve a rubix cube in less than 1 minute and 30 seconds by July ( 75% confidence; 1 comment )
Created by ahartell on 2012-01-04; known on 2012-07-01; judged right by ahartell on 2012-02-20.
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I will not open facebook between now and midnight. ( 100% confidence )
Created by ahartell on 2012-01-04; known on 2012-01-05; judged right by ahartell on 2012-01-05.
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I will go to school tomorrow and friday. ( 100% confidence; 2 comments )
Created by ahartell on 2012-01-04; known on 2012-01-07; judged right by ahartell on 2012-01-06.
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euro and us dollar will form a new currency within 10 years (both will be supplanted by a common currency shared by the USA and some current Euro members) ( 32% confidence; 4 wagers; 3 comments )
Created by siscoking on 2012-01-04; known on 2022-01-16; judged wrong by Bruno Parga on 2022-01-17.
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Either Morotola or Cisco will buy Tivo. ( 32% confidence; 2 wagers; 3 comments )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-04; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by gwern on 2013-01-01.
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“Prediction #4: Motorola buys TiVO” —Cringely ( 35% confidence; 2 comments )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-04; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by gwern on 2013-01-01.
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Night 4: pill was Vitamin D ( 60% confidence )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-04; known on 2012-01-04; judged right by gwern on 2012-01-04.
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The Church of Kopimism will have over 20k members by 2013. Prediction will be withdrawn if membership stats aren't available. ( 57% confidence; 5 wagers; 3 comments )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-04; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by Tuxedage on 2013-01-13.
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I will finish reading GEB before I go to college. ( 37% confidence; 2 wagers )
Created by ahartell on 2012-01-04; known on 2012-09-23; judged wrong by ahartell on 2012-09-23.
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Taniguchi (from Haruhi) is written valley-mouth. ( 90% confidence )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-04; known on 2012-01-04; judged right by faws on 2012-01-04.
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Kunikida (from Haruhi) is written country-tree-field. ( 20% confidence )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-04; known on 2012-01-04; judged right by faws on 2012-01-04.
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Grognor (http://lesswrong.com/user/Grognor) will reach 1000 karma on LessWrong by September 27, 2012, one year after his first comment. ( 87% confidence; 6 wagers; 4 comments )
Created by Grognor on 2012-01-04; known on 2012-09-27; judged right by Grognor on 2012-03-13.
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By the end of the year Namecoin would be closer to Bitcoin in value than to the early-2012 value of Namecoin. ( 78% confidence; 2 comments )
Created by marchdown on 2012-01-03; known on 2012-12-16; judged wrong by gwern on 2012-12-27.
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“Bitcoins will be accepted by at least one major online trader of legal goods” (top 500) ( 14% confidence; 2 wagers; 2 comments )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-03; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by gwern on 2013-01-01.
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“Bitcoins will be accepted by at least one major online trader of legal goods” (top 100) ( 9% confidence; 2 wagers; 3 comments )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-03; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by gwern on 2013-01-01.
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I have heard Life before. ( 20% confidence )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-03; known on 2012-01-03; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2012-01-03.
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'Kimi ni aeta Yokatta' is from one of the Slayers series. ( 30% confidence )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-03; known on 2012-01-03; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2012-01-03.
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'Sakura saku' is the first Love Hina OP. ( 60% confidence; 1 comment )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-03; known on 2012-01-03; judged right by Anubhav on 2012-01-03.
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I will apply for a job as a software developer. ( 30% confidence )
Created by Emanuel Rylke on 2012-01-03; known on 2012-12-31; judged right by Emanuel Rylke on 2012-06-23.
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Night 3: pill was Vitamin D ( 50% confidence )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-03; known on 2012-01-03; judged right by gwern on 2012-01-03.
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2012 i will enter a romantic relationship that will last longer than 30 days. ( 5% confidence; 3 wagers )
Created by Emanuel Rylke on 2012-01-03; known on 2013-01-30; judged wrong by Emanuel Rylke on 2013-01-30.
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I will consume a story (book, movie, comic…) in french primarly for enjoyment and not language learning. ( 45% confidence )
Created by Emanuel Rylke on 2012-01-03; known on 2012-12-31; judged wrong by Emanuel Rylke on 2012-12-31.
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Future Cities Development Inc. will found at least one settlement in a special development region in Honduras and it will have a population of equal to or greater than 500 before 2013. ( 5% confidence; 3 comments )
Created by Jayson Virissimo on 2012-01-03; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by Jayson Virissimo on 2013-01-02.
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I will “remember my name, or soon learn it” for MSN contact sparky_tails for something Microsoft-related ( 10% confidence )
Created by Jach on 2012-01-03; known on 2013-01-16; judged wrong by ewang on 2013-01-19.
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HP MOR: EY already planned to incorporate the Peverell tombstone quote before Raemon asked him. ( 65% confidence; 7 wagers; 6 comments )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-03; known on 2016-01-01; judged right by HonoreDB on 2016-02-13.
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“Intel buys [merges with] Qualcomm” —Cringely ( 20% confidence; 2 wagers; 1 comment )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-03; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by gwern on 2013-01-01.
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HP MoR: The Peverell tombstone (“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death”) will be quoted or clearly alluded to at some point. ( 71% confidence; 13 wagers; 12 comments )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-03; known on 2015-01-01; judged right by Flailingjunk on 2013-07-25.
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AMZN market cap >= 0.25 * AAPL on 31 December 2012. ( 50% confidence; 2 wagers; 2 comments )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by gwern on 2013-01-01.
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“Apple will get a new CEO in 2012” [not Tim Cook] —Cringeley ( 35% confidence; 1 comment )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by gwern on 2013-01-01.
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At least one of my New Years predictions will turn out to be correct for reasons that are surprising to me. ( 80% confidence )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-27.
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I will have a total LessWrong karma of at least 10,000 by the end of the year. ( 75% confidence )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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My mother will not read any books by Steven Pinker this year ( 72% confidence; 2 wagers )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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I will not become a vegetarian in 2012 ( 82% confidence; 2 wagers; 2 comments )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-27.
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In 2012, I will go to at least two open viewing nights for telescopes in the greater Boston area ( 58% confidence )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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HP MoR: HPMOR will update at least twice in 2012 ( 95% confidence; 22 wagers; 10 comments )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by Isaac on 2012-03-16.
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The Hubble Telescope will continue functioning though 2012 ( 82% confidence; 2 wagers )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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No contact with intelligent aliens be made in 2012 ( 96% confidence; 31 wagers; 7 comments )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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Russia will lose at least one rocket launch in 2012 ( 55% confidence; 1 comment )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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Humans will continue to have at least one functioning probe on Martian surface or a satellite around Mars for all of 2012 ( 97% confidence; 3 wagers; 2 comments )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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I will coauthor at least one paper on integer complexity in 2013 ( 55% confidence; 2 wagers; 1 comment )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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Share will download one of the files I'm looking for tomorrow. ( 43% confidence; 3 wagers; 2 comments )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-02; known on 2012-01-04; judged right by Anubhav on 2012-01-03.
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I will read at least 15 novels of the Maria-sama ga Miteru series in the next 2 years. ( 3% confidence; 2 wagers; 3 comments )
Created by Anubhav on 2012-01-02; known on 2014-01-01; judged wrong by Anubhav on 2014-01-05.
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No improvement in factoring integers in a classical setting that has better time-asymptotics than the best current ones will be made in 2012 ( 85% confidence )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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There will be improvement in efficient matrix multiplication in 2012 that will be discussed in at least one of the following blogs: Combinatorics and more, Shetl-Optimized, Godel's Lost Letter. ( 51% confidence; 2 wagers; 2 comments )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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The relationship between P and BQP will not be resolved in 2012. ( 82% confidence; 2 wagers )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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General AI will not be built by 2013 ( 97% confidence; 19 wagers; 11 comments )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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P != NP will not be resolved by 2013 ( 95% confidence; 2 wagers )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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The Riemann Hypothesis will not be proven in 2012 ( 96% confidence; 2 wagers )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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In 2012, Clashes between North Korea and South Korea will result in fatalities, or the North Korean government will collapse. ( 65% confidence; 3 wagers; 2 comments )
Created by JoshuaZ on 2012-01-02; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by JoshuaZ on 2013-01-01.
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Night 2: pill was Vitamin D. ( 35% confidence )
Created by gwern on 2012-01-02; known on 2012-01-02; judged wrong by gwern on 2012-01-02.
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I will be defrauded, stolen from, robbed, burgled, or assaulted during my stay in Mexico City. ( 2% confidence; 3 wagers; 3 comments )
Created by Jayson Virissimo on 2012-01-02; known on 2012-02-01; judged wrong by Jayson Virissimo on 2012-01-17.
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I will be murdered during my stay in Mexico City. ( 0% confidence; 8 wagers; 8 comments )
Created by Jayson Virissimo on 2012-01-02; known on 2012-02-01; judged wrong by Jayson Virissimo on 2012-01-17.