Will this Yudkowsky tweet hold up? (2024 version)
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Same as this market but closes and resolves end of 2024
https://manifold.markets/journcy/will-this-yudkowsky-tweet-hold-up

"This market resolves YES if at close (end of **2024**) my subjective perception is that this was a good take (https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1563282607315382273) --e.g., AI-generated video really is that good--and NO if it seems like Eliezer was importantly wrong about something, e.g., AI-generated video still sucks, or still couldn't be the cause for serious doubt about whether some random moth footage was made with a camera or not."

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benshindel avatar
Ben Shindelbought Ṁ50 of YES

Feel like we're pretty close... asking @GeorgeVii ... does this need to be AI-gen video from first principles, or would stuff like this hold? (AI-gen images that are turned into little motion gifs):

https://x.com/_bryanmarley/status/1729227168067068126?s=20

DanW avatar
Dan. W. bought Ṁ150 NO from 41% to 38%
Jacy avatar
Jacybought Ṁ34 of NO

@benshindel The tweet explicitly says:

> whether it's real or if the AI's prompt was "beautiful video of 15 different moth species flapping their wings, professional photography, 8k, trending on Twitter".

This wouldn't be a human-combined set of clips or a set of videos generated from images. This is much more difficult.

firstuserherebought Ṁ9,219 ofNO
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tjd

@firstuserhere well hey there sunny – didn't see this coming

Eliezer Yudkowskybought Ṁ10,400 ofNO
makoyass avatar
mako yass

no because ↑

RemiLeopard avatar
Remi Leopard

@makoyass He said "In 2-4 years", which puts his mean estimate at 2025-08, i.e. his probability for EOY 2024 would be <50% (he traded 72->59%)

Coagulopath avatar
Coagulopath

@cloudprism Note that this video is image-to-video. Yudkowsky's tweet mentions text-to-video.

Lavander avatar
Lavanderpredicts YES

@Coagulopath well, if I made some python notebook that would automatically convert text-to-image-to-video, that would totally count. If, of course, it produces enough quality outputs.

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Alexander Campbellbought Ṁ16 of YES

The below contract is trading 12 pts 'rich' vs this one which expires 6m later.

Clear arb.

am I wrong?

https://manifold.markets/journcy/will-this-yudkowsky-tweet-hold-up

firstuserhere avatar
firstuserherepredicts YES

@AlexanderLeCampbell one is end of 2024, the other end of 2026

firstuserhere avatar
firstuserherepredicts YES

A bit tangential but people here might enjoy playing around with stuff like HeyGen

inculted avatar
inculted

how accurate does it have to be in terms of species? is this from a layman perspective? i could see a point where it's identical for the average person, but someone who's an entomologist can easily see that it's a recording of a species that doesn't exist

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Sophus Corry

@inculted wrong -ologist, etymologists like words ahaha

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Alldjhfpredicts NO

Does this not exist at present already?

I hear reviews about Apple Vision Pro implementing this technology where it's amazing to see from virtual butterfly 🦋 flying to you. See, review by Markus Brownie

twink_joan_didion avatar
tjdbought Ṁ24 of NO

@sugar Idk but upon seeing that and reading the tweet again, my "first thought" would not be to question or believe it was casually generated by a 10-20 word prompt like "beautiful video of 15 different butterfly species flapping their wings, professional photography, 8k"

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firstuserherebought Ṁ100 of YES

@twink_joan_didion It's not about first thought but about : AI-generated video really is that good or not

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tjdpredicts NO

@firstuserhere I mean, i said first thought because that's what Yud's tweet says itself. but acknowledged it's subjective

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Lbought Ṁ10 of NO

see my comment on the other market for reasoning

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

I think you want to explicitly clarify here that this prediction market resolves YES if my tweet was WRONG in the sense that it OVERESTIMATED the required time and thus the 2-4 time bracket I stated was INCORRECT because the actual time was <2 years. (Am I correct?)

GeorgeVii avatar
GeorgeViipredicts YES

@EliezerYudkowsky Hmm, yes thats what I was thinking.
I think it will still have been a good take even if it overestimates, since the general culture is underestimating by many more years than you would have overestimated; & also I didn't take it as a super granular prediction, so if its off by a month or two idc.

Hope this doesn't screw your recent bet.
Tho you didn't bet this one down https://manifold.markets/journcy/will-this-yudkowsky-tweet-hold-up
so perhaps you're updating more toward 4 than 2 year timeline here?

GeorgeVii avatar
GeorgeViipredicts YES

@GeorgeVii "so if its off by a month or two idc." in the downwards direction that is.
The 2024 deadline is still strict for resolutions sake.

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Eliezer Yudkowskypredicts NO

Actually, I'm again misstating things: This market resolves at end of 2024, while my "2-4 years" prediction made on August 26th, 2022 would be correct so long as this technology arrives no earlier than August 26th, 2024.

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Gigacasting

This guy *****:

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Gigacasting

100x better than the meta paper