nunosempere.github.io/ea/Forecasting/ListOfForecastingProjects.md

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List of forecasting projects:

  • Have forecasters read Toby Ord's book, and generate their own probabilities of x-risks
  • Feed forecasted x-risk probabilities, in addition to some other inputs which could also be forecasted, to Trammel's model on patient philantropists, to find out what the optimal spending conditions for a patient philantropist would be. Right now, some of the inputs to Trammel's model are very much up in the air.
  • Forecast whether some big companies will keep to their chicken broiler / animal suffering commitments; this would be useful for some orgs to prioritize their outreach.
  • Forecast the value of altruistic projects; I (Nuño) have a small demo on this.
  • Throw some optimization power at the Metaculus Ragnarok questions
  • Look into the relationship between price or time spent and forecast accuracy
  • Look into rewarding forecasters according to their Shapley values
  • Predict which EA Fund applications will be funded
  • Add interesting and nontrivial markets to Augur.
  • Rapid Response EA Forecasting Hotline
  • Forecast incubator ideas' likelihood of success
  • Create a calibration hall of fame/shame for researchers' past forecasts
  • Case studies / lessons learned on forecasting
  • Pay and support forecasters to make forecasts on existing platforms
  • Get a visible forecasting win for EA/QURI/EpiFor
  • Participate in an OSINT project
  • Suggest questions to Good Judgement Open with an altruistic bent. It is not unusual for GJOpen to accept question suggestions.
  • Talk with CSET; they seem a little bit confused/lost.
  • Recruit people for CSET; they need more forecasters to be able to produce useful policy feedback
  • Forecasting for EA policy advocates
  • Estimate the value of the forecasted variables/questions on Metaculus and GJP
  • On-demand forecasting to research teams
  • Write down lessons learnt from EpidemicForecasting
  • Foretold consulting/training