How will Manifold die?
25
364
3069
0.7%
As a consequence of a global catastrophe (nuclear war, hostile AI takeover, etc.)
1.2%
Outcompeted in the online marketplace
15%
Ship-of-Theseus'd into a new website
7%
Bought by a large corporation & monetized to death
0.2%
Shut down by the U.S. federal government
2%
Manifold is eternal
0.2%
Not with a bang but a whimper
17%
They go bankrupt
25%
People lose interest in it and stop using the site
5%
Once big enough to be noticed, regulators either shut them down or hobble them into irrelevance
1.6%
Heat death
15%
Founders are disappointed in slow/no/negative growth and shut Manifold down.
0.4%
Bought by a large corporation but later shut down for not being profitable
0.4%
with thunderous applause
0.5%
Founders shut down Manifold due to community drama

this market never resolves 😤

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Why is "As a consequence of a global catastrophe (nuclear war, hostile AI takeover, etc.)" at 0.8% when AI doom by 2030 is still at 10%?

@DavidBolin Because in this market, the plausible short-term gains to AI self-sufficiency aren't being inflated by borderline-magical amounts.

@DavidBolin because the AIs might keep Manifold around

I feel like "regulators either A OR B" should be two separate answer choices

bought Ṁ10 of Once big enough to b...

@ShadowyZephyr For my answer, I figured either having most of the value ruined by regulatory demands, or being outright shut down, would be thematically similar-enough to make a "bucket". But it could be interesting to have them as different answers.

bought Ṁ10 of Ship-of-Theseus'd in...

Great market idea. The general concept of using markets to predict bad futures to avoid them deserves its own term: maybe "via negativa futarchy" or "malfutarchy".

@SG malarchy

Data and code is open right? If it's going to fire I'll scrape it and run it myself. Dev would be slow but running it with no/slow development should be fairly cheap right?

we still got like 2 years of runway so no need to worry. I personally think clones would be cool. probably will be easier once we move off firebase (which I'm tackling rn)

@StrayClimb The chance of Manifold truly dying is actually extremely low. Even in the worst case where Manifold no longer seems like a viable business prospect, we cease active development, put the site in maintenance/low cost mode, and subsist off of user and EA donations. I personally will ensure that it lives on.

And, of course, the best case still is within reach... /SG/will-manifold-ipo-by-2030

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Manifold is eternal
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That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.