Will AI wipe out humanity before the year 2060?
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This Market will resolve to no if any humans are still alive at the end of 2060. Otherwise, the ai will resolve it to yes.

Creating this market as I am interested in the timeline as well as the outcome and we already have the same event on a 2100 timeline.

Link to 2100 market: https://manifold.markets/JamesDillard/will-ai-wipe-out-humanity-before-th?r=SmFtZXNCaWxscw

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Isaac Kingbought Ṁ279 of NO

The market description doesn't match the title; could you clarify which one is actually correct? If humanity is still around in 2060 and this market's resolution has been delegated to an AI, how should it resolve?

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James Billsis predicting YES at 14%

@IsaacKing fair commentary, I've updated to make it explicitly requiring humans to be alive in order to resolve no. If humans are not alive then the AI resolves it yes.

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Isaac Kingis predicting NO at 14%

@JamesBills Humans being uploaded, augmented, or in cryonic or suspended animation all count as being "alive", right?

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James Billsis predicting YES at 13%

@IsaacKing Do you think a free will caveat would resolve this?

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Isaac Kingis predicting NO at 13%

@JamesBills Not sure what you mean

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James Billsis predicting YES at 14%

@IsaacKing for example; alive with out free will/agency resolves yes

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Isaac Kingis predicting NO at 14%

@JamesBills How does making the market depend on a complex philosophical topic that may not even be well-defined help in any way? :)

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James Billsbought Ṁ35 of NO

@IsaacKing I'm going to take that as a no :)

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Mark Ingraham

The obvious answer is no, but the trading bot pumped this question with massive loans to get a yes.

The bot has 50k in loans against 170k in profit, with 90% of the profit being a handful of long term wrong bets. Once these bets saturate it will have to make real bets and collapse.

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Erick Ballis predicting YES at 16%

@MarkIngraham what bot are you talking about?

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Mark Ingraham

@ErickBall Michael's

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James Bills

Sticking to binary as the success of this market depends on people trading on future expectations rather than the outcome.