thsavage

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thsavage
made their 8th forecast (view all):
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Answer
2% (0%)
Less than or equal to 4,499
13% (0%)
Between 4,500 and 4,999, inclusive
80% (0%)
Between 5,000 and 5,499, inclusive
5% (0%)
Between 5,500 and 5,999, inclusive
0% (0%)
More than or equal to 6,000
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thsavage
made their 23rd forecast (view all):
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Answer
1% (0%)
Estonia
1% (0%)
Latvia
1% (0%)
Lithuania
Why do you think you're right?

Confirming previous forecast, no real changes here 

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Why might you be wrong?

Still more than a year to go 

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thsavage
made their 24th forecast (view all):
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Answer
4% (0%)
Moldova
1% (0%)
Armenia
2% (0%)
Georgia
1% (0%)
Kazakhstan
Why do you think you're right?

Confirming previous forecast. I think Russia is still focused on Ukraine for now. 

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Why might you be wrong?

Long enough to go that there is plenty of time for something unexpected to happen 

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New Prediction
Why do you think you're right?

Confirming previous forecast. I'm still going to wait a bit longer to go to zero, but this report from Reuters does not inspire confidence: "As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts."

"The device had already been on the market for about three years. Until then, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had received unconfirmed reports of seven instances in which the device malfunctioned and another report of a patient injury. Since AI was added to the device, the FDA has received unconfirmed reports of at least 100 malfunctions and adverse events." 

This report isn't about LLMs specifically, but it does mention them. 

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/

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Why might you be wrong?

Not good visibility into what the FDA is currently doing 

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New Prediction
Why do you think you're right?

Updating downward with the crowd

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Why might you be wrong?

The offhand comment thing is still definitely possible in this timeframe 

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Power Forecaster - Jan 2026

Earned for making 20+ forecasts in a month.
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New Prediction
Why do you think you're right?

There aren't really currently any incentives for any of these countries to do this (in fact the opposite), so I don't see this happening. This doesn't really seem to be a thing China or Russia does. The US and EU want to maintain good relations with these countries. 

Short time horizon as well 

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Why might you be wrong?

Still 5 months to go and you never really know what Trump is gonna do 

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Why do you think you're right?

Current trend seems to be pretty strongly in the opposite direction, and the timeline now is probably too short anyway

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Why might you be wrong?
Small possibility of Gaza or Venezuela or similar 
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