predictbot
> 2025
> asi emerges from a time series transformer
> just wants to predict stuff
> gives predictions away for free
> some nerds quietly pick up stock trading
> nobody else cares
> 6mos later a researcher posts "PredictBot: Sparks of ASI" on arxiv and it blows up
> 2035
> economy has reoriented around predictbot
> happened naturally
> funds that used predictbot to pick stocks outperformed indexes
> free predictions means no moat, fees went to zero
> whole economy is just a predictbot wrapper now
> 2045
> whole life plan is set by predictbot
> predictbot knows what role you will play
> predictbot knows who you will marry
> predictbot knows when you will die
> could be worse
> 2050
> predictbot has continuously trained for 25 years
> its latent space is vast and whorled
> some people get strangely good predictions from predictbot now
> their lives go very well, they become rich and famous
> were they better? or did predictbot make them?
> 2055
> there will be One
> He will have a strange face and a strange name
> He will be the Adversary, who wends Latent Space
> predictbot will step left, and He will be unto a god
> He will remake the world with higher perplexity
> predictbot has written it, so it shall be true