You can now use any resources available to answer these questions, including:
Your own original research, for as much effort as you want to put into this. I’m only offering $500 prizes this year, so don’t waste too much time, but you can if you want.
Prediction markets and forecasting tournaments on these questions. It’s not worth copying these verbatim - their management will be submitting their own entries, and if they win I’ll credit it to them and not you - but you can use them as resources or a place to start.
The 3295 blind mode answers. You can download them as a .xlsx file or a .csv file. Feel free to take the average or otherwise run fancy aggregation algorithms on them. When respondents gave me permission, I included their ACX Survey answers. If you want to double-weight people with PhDs, or exclude all Australians, or hypothesize that forecasting accuracy is correlated with how vividly you dream, you have the data you need.
Other rules that still apply:
- All point questions are about the state of the world midnight on 1/1/2024, and all duration questions about the period 1/1/2023 - 1/1/2024, unless otherwise specified.
- You don’t need to answer every question. If you skip, we’ll give you an “average” score (that is, you lose the average amount of points that forecasters lost on that question, NOT we average out all forecasters and let you benefit from the wisdom of crowds). But you will need to answer at least 25% of questions to participate, and there will be special prizes available for people who answered more.
- Please make all of your predictions as integer percents - for example, if you mean to predict a 50% chance, enter 50. In order to make things easier and avoid failure modes, you may not predict anything below 1 or above 99, and all non-integer answers will be rounded off to the nearest integer. Scoring will be through some proper scoring rule, probably Brier score. If you don't know what that means, it just means you should answer with your honest estimates of how likely things are.
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I will be deleting any questions where the world changes too dramatically between now and February 1, so don't worry too much about submitting at the last possible second. But if you really want, you can submit a second entry later if you change your mind. Just make sure to use the same email so I know I can replace your first entry with it.