The wording of the question is pretty confusing. I propose changing it to, "In 2100, what will be the scientific consensus on whether life ever originated on Mars?"

@spider : i also initially thought it was just about having a consensus, even if the consensus is "no life" it would have resolved "yes".

i think this should be clarified

Currently manifold thinks there is a 78% chance of AGI by 2048.

If argue that AGI would massively increase our ability to answer the question posed by this market so this market should be well above 2048.

I also think probably Manifold over predicts the likelihood of AGI

@ChrisEdwards crap I massively misread the wording

@ChrisEdwards note that this question is about whether there is life on mars; so if there is no life on mars no agi will help us conclude that there is

@ChrisEdwards same here, I think it's the marsians messing with our heads

I think the price is decent, if anyone's more confident than me I'm selling my position at 88%

@Bayesian I mixed up the title, thought the price was the equivalent of 12%. So uh. should have sold ig.

A consensus that there was life, or a consensus either way?

@RemiRampin That there was life

@Bayesian wanna take?

@spider yeah sure

@Bayesian I've opened another with most of my remaining account balance

@spider wait reallyyy?

@Bayesian I'd honestly give this one slightly-greater-than-coin-flip odds.

@spider that's wild. would it be the same life as on earth in that case? or some independent marsian life

@Bayesian honestly I'm really uncertain how to divide probability mass between the two. Most of my current world view comes from the strengths and weaknesses of existing evidence (mainly seasonal atmospheric composition changes), instead of trying to reason it out as a black box.

@spider i'd put like 7% on the first and 3% on the second, that would be absolutely bizarre. unless "life" is tiny self replicating molecules and there are tons of them all throughout the universe but we don't know about them or care about them bc they never got or never could have gotten past that stage? ig in that case second option could be 50% for all I know

@Bayesian oh yeah, the idea that abiogenesis could be one of the easier steps would make for such a cool universe.

Full of future scientists investigating briny pockets full of weird patterns for the next few dozen millennia.

they could probably get them to form spontaneously in a big lab / simulations? at that stage. yeah that would be cool

wait did I misread the market all along???? I thought YES was that there wouldn't be any life found on mars. I am so confused. why did I buy YES again? huh