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What do you think of the following statements?

37 people have given 303 responses

Statements with the highest number of 👍 or the highest number of 👎 appear at the top (if everyone thinks 👎, that's consensus too)

The claim of "superhuman" forecasting ability is exaggerated.

77%
7%
17%

Given what we currently know it is fair to say that the Safe AI forecasting model performs better than the metaculus crowd forecast.

14%
75%
11%

The system's performance may not translate to consistent profitability in high-liquidity prediction markets.

63%
13%
23%

The search engine date cutoff feature used to prevent information leakage is potentially unreliable.

62%
7%
31%

On balance the Safe AI forecasting model will probably beat the metaculus crowd forecast if given questions 3 months in the future and unable to see the crowd forecast.

10%
60%
30%

People who strongly identify with a particular skill or domain (X) tend to be more pessimistic about AI surpassing human abilities in that domain (X).

60%
0%
40%

It is likely that information was leaking into the questions that Safe AI were testing their model on.

57%
7%
37%

The questions used for evaluation may have been cherry-picked or biased towards the system's strengths.

50%
21%
29%

Nathanpmyoung's market resolution is still unclearly defined.

33%
23%
43%

The decision to use Platt scaling in the evaluation is questionable and lacks sufficient justification.

28%
3%
69%

The evaluation set was all questions that resolved within some amount of time after the cutoff set.

14%
10%
76%