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Duration:2 years

Time Period:2020 - 2021

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5.757k	Total Score
Score	Question	Question Type
210.898	What will be the state-of-the-art language modelling performance (in perplexity) on WikiText-103 by the following dates? (Jun 14, 2021)	Continuous
148.345	What will the state-of-the-art language text-to-SQL performance on WikiSQL be at 2021-06-14 in logical form test accuracy?	Continuous
128.552	What will the maximum z-score be for Denmark for observed deaths in 2020-2021 according to Euromomo?	Continuous
127.010	For the month of January 2021, what will the US Bureau of Labor Statistics report as the preliminary monthly nonfarm payroll number (in millions)?	Continuous
124.938	What will the mean level of transit activity be in San Francisco — Bay Area for the week 2021-01-24 through 2021-01-30?	Continuous
116.274	What will be the seasonally adjusted CPI-U (less energy and food) for January 2021?	Continuous
113.301	What will the mean level of transit activity be in Phoenix for the week 2021-01-24 through 2021-01-30?	Continuous
113.153	What will be the market cap of MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, FB, AMZN on December 31, 2021 as a percentage of the total S&P500?	Continuous
111.716	What will the mean level of transit activity be in the city of Dallas, Texas for the week 2021-01-24 through 2021-01-30?	Continuous
108.894	For the month of February 2021, what will the US Bureau of Labor Statistics report as the preliminary monthly nonfarm payroll number (in millions)?	Continuous
107.827	What will be the seasonally adjusted CPI-U (less energy and food) for February 2021?	Continuous
106.703	What will the mean level of transit activity be in New York City for the week 2021-01-24 through 2021-01-30?	Continuous
106.587	How will Donald Trump rank among presidents?	Continuous
104.403	What will the US Q1 2021 GDP growth rate be according to the US Bureau of Economic Analysis Advance Estimate?	Continuous
103.971	How many State of AI Report 2020 predictions will be judged true by their authors in the 2021 report?	Continuous
95.060	How many Reinforcement Learning e-prints will be published on arXiv over the 2020-12-14 to 2021-06-14 period?	Continuous
92.822	Will Donald Trump be President of the United States of America on 2021-01-21?	Binary
92.707	Will the US see mass price controls in 2021?	Binary
92.551	Will a single novel SARS-CoV-2 variant that is at least 30% more transmissible than preexisting variants infect 10M worldwide before mid-2021?	Binary
91.470	Will Antifa officially be labeled a terrorist group in the US before 2022?	Binary
89.859	Will Trump freely leave the White House?	Binary
89.304	How many consumer plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) will be sold in the US in 2020?	Continuous
89.248	Will Kim Jong-un still be the de facto leader of North Korea on 1 January 2022?	Binary
87.356	Will Donald Trump attend Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony in person?	Binary
86.193	Will the U.S. join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership trade pact in 2021?	Binary
85.422	Will Restaurant Brands International cease sourcing pork in North America from suppliers that use gestation stalls by Jan 1, 2022?	Binary
84.981	What will be the COVID-19: Government Response Stringency Index for the US be on February 1st 2021?	Continuous
84.594	Will Scott Morrison be Prime Minister of Australia on 1 July 2021?	Binary
84.428	Will the U.S. Affordable Care Act be expanded to include a public option before the end of 2021?	Binary
83.155	Will no CRISPR-edited babies be born in the year 2020?	Binary
82.859	How many will be employed in the US transportation and warehousing industry in 2021 (in thousands)?	Continuous
82.850	Will the USA enter a second civil war before July 2021?	Binary
81.515	What will be the U.S. GDP growth (year on year) in 2021?	Continuous
81.191	What will (seasonally-adjusted, annualized) unemployment insurance payments be in 2021 Q1, in billions of $USD?	Continuous
80.421	Will Apple close its flagship 5th Ave store for a period of two weeks or longer before April 2021?	Binary
78.483	Will Kyle Rittenhouse be convicted of first-degree intentional homicide?	Binary
77.167	How many people in the US between the ages 16-24 will be employed in 2021 (in thousands)?	Continuous
76.866	How many total games will be played in the NFL's 2020-2021 regular season?	Continuous
75.776	Will the price of bitcoin drop below $10K USD in 2021?	Binary
75.259	Alexander Lukashenko to remain president of Belarus on January 31st, 2021?	Binary
74.901	Will Germany make use of its Emergency Acts in light of COVID-19?	Binary
74.855	What will the total retail sales including food services be for February 2021?	Continuous
74.822	How many people 65+ will be employed in the US in 2021 (in thousands)?	Continuous
74.153	What will be the total stock of crude oil and other petroleum products for January 2021?	Continuous
74.072	On November 2021, will >20% of Americans believe the 2020 election was rigged?	Binary
73.777	What will China's unemployment rate be for Q1 2021?	Continuous
73.314	What will the maximum z-score be for Greece for observed deaths in 2020-2021 according to Euromomo?	Continuous
72.488	What will be the total number of commercial flights in operation on 30 June 2021?	Continuous
70.772	Will ACE or any of its top or standout charities see a scandal related to sexual harassment or unwanted sexual advances in 2021?	Binary
70.562	How efficacious will the Sputnik V SARS-CoV-2 vaccine be according to the peer reviewed results of the Phase 3 RCT?	Continuous
70.217	Will the World Series of Poker return to a live in-person format in 2021?	Binary
69.550	What will the mean level of transit activity be in the city of Dallas, Texas for the week 2021-02-21 through 2021-02-27?	Continuous
69.471	How many drugs will be approved by the FDA in 2021?	Continuous
69.466	How many subscribers will /r/sneerclub have on January 1st 2022?	Continuous
69.322	What will the state-of-the-art performance on SuperGLUE be on 2021-06-14?	Continuous
69.109	When will a vaccine targeted at the 2019 novel coronavirus (Covid-19) be administered to at least 10M people?	Continuous
68.357	Will Planet Nine be Discovered by mid-2021?	Binary
67.929	Will the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games take place in 2021?	Binary
67.635	Will USA top the Medal Table at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021?	Binary
67.550	What percent will software and information services contribute to US GDP in Q1 of 2021?	Continuous
66.814	When will these degrees of self-driving car autonomy be developed and commercially available? (L3)	Continuous
66.153	How many people will be employed in the US wholesale and retail industries in 2021 (in thousands)?	Continuous
66.052	What will the size of Singapore's total foreign workforce be, for the first month after 2020-12-01 for which data is published?	Continuous
64.853	What will the combined sector weighting of Information Technology and Communications be, in the S&P 500 on 2021-06-14?	Continuous
64.604	What will unemployment be in the US in 2021?	Continuous
64.128	How many total unique visitors will download Debian package files from ROS.org in the year ending July 2021?	Continuous
62.936	How many Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition e-prints will be published on arXiv over the 2020-12-14 to 2021-06-14 period?	Continuous
62.425	How many e-prints on multi-modal machine learning will be published on arXiv over the 2020-12-14 to 2021-06-14 period?	Continuous
61.744	What will the Mens winning 100m time in the 2020 Olympic Final be?	Continuous
60.928	How many electric vehicles will Tesla produce (units delivered) in 2021?	Continuous
60.786	Will Charles Murray receive a long-term Twitter ban before 2021?	Binary
60.025	What will be the total stock of crude oil and other petroleum products for February 2021?	Continuous
59.898	What fraction of United States adults will be vaccinated against the 2020—2021 seasonal influenza?	Continuous
59.250	What will the margin of victory be between John Ossoff and David Perdue in the 2020 5 Jan GA (Regular) Runoff Election?	Continuous
59.133	Will Margaret Ferrier resign as MP before April 2021?	Binary
58.909	Will Biden keep a +5% net Presidential approval rating throughout his first six months on the job?	Binary
58.075	Will ACE or any of its top or standout charities see a scandal related to racial inequity or discrimination in 2021?	Binary
57.809	What will be the lowest closing value for the Dow Jones Industrial Average before it reaches a new all-time record high close?	Continuous
57.672	Will the S&P 500 experience a bear market (peak to trough decline of 20% or more) in 2021?	Binary
56.976	Will James Lindsay receive a long-term Twitter ban before 2021?	Binary
56.355	How many Computation and Language e-prints will be published on arXiv over the 2020-12-14 to 2021-06-14 period?	Continuous
55.342	What will the percentage difference between full time tenure-track and non-tenure track employment in US baccalaureate institutions be in the 2020-2021 school year?	Continuous
54.600	What will the cost of energy of utility-scale solar photovoltaics be in 2020, in 2018 USD per kWh?	Continuous
54.278	What will the lower limit in the IPCC's ‘likely’ range of its climate sensitivity estimate be, in its 6th Assessment Report?	Continuous
52.550	What will be the total box office gross in the U.S. & Canada in 2021?	Continuous
51.916	What will be the total number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths globally by the end of 2021?	Continuous
51.200	What will the Federal Reserves' Industrial Production Index be for April 2021, for semiconductors, printed circuit boards and related products?	Continuous
50.892	If California passes Proposition 22 to classify app-based drivers as independent contractors, what will Uber's adjusted EBITDA for the mobility segment be in Q1 2021?	Continuous
50.887	What will the US Q4 2020 GDP growth rate be according to the US Bureau of Economic Analysis Advance Estimate?	Continuous
47.946	Will enough signatures be gathered to schedule a recall election for California Govenor Gavin Newsom?	Binary
47.304	If the total estimated number of novel coronavirus cases before 2021 exceeds 100 million, how many people will die before January 1, 2021?	Continuous
47.251	Will Netanyahu be convicted by the end of 2021?	Binary
47.242	Will a nuclear device with a yield of at least 1kt be detonated anywhere on Earth in 2021?	Binary
46.981	What percent of ballots cast in the 2020 US general election will be mail-in or absentee?	Continuous
46.785	How many e-prints on Few-Shot Learning will be published on arXiv over the 2020-12-14 to 2021-06-14 period?	Continuous
46.657	Will the NYT end up publishing any articles mentioning SSC or SA in the next year?	Binary
46.409	How many e-prints on AI Safety, Interpretability or Explainability will be published on arXiv over the 2020-12-14 to 2021-06-14 period?	Continuous
44.137	Microwave disruption of COVID-19 virus particles?	Binary
43.156	When will SpaceX Starlink internet be generally available?	Continuous
42.975	How effective will a second RCT find the most effective regimen of the AstraZenca SARS-CoV-2 vaccine to be?	Continuous
41.832	What will be the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases globally by the end of 2021?	Continuous
41.682	What share (in %) of the world's super-compute performance will be United States-based in the TOP500 list on the following dates? (June 2021)	Continuous
40.598	Will it turn out that Bloomberg manipulated 2020 election prediction markets?	Binary
40.389	Will China's Tianwen-1 rover successfully land on Mars?	Binary
39.920	Will the 1000th binary question resolution be positive?	Binary
39.859	How many infections of SARS-CoV-2 (novel coronavirus) will be estimated to have occurred worldwide, before 2021?	Continuous
39.748	Will 2021 be the hottest year on record according to NASA?	Binary
39.704	For the calendar year 2021, will peak monthly US unemployment occur within Q1?	Binary
39.252	Will China reach its NEV credit targets of 14% by 2021?	Binary
37.688	Will Scotland set a date for a new independence referendum in 2021?	Binary
37.584	Will the (English speaking) world be happier in 2021 than in 2020?	Binary
37.433	When will the 7-day moving average of daily confirmed COVID-19 cases first drop below 10% of a previous peak in the US?	Continuous
37.206	Will three or more United Nations Security Council resolutions be vetoed in 2021?	Binary
36.821	What will be the average percentage change in property and casualty insurance premiums in Q1 2021?	Continuous
36.057	How many new electric vehicles will be registered worldwide, in the calendar year 2020?	Continuous
35.615	What will the total deal value be of all the US Private Equity deals in billions of US$, in 2020?	Continuous
35.465	Will the results of the Electoral College be formally challenged in the House in 2021?	Binary
35.334	What will the price of IGM be, on 2021-06-14?	Continuous
34.389	Will Andrew Yang win the 2021 New York City mayoral election?	Binary
33.543	Will Uber and Lyft both be operating in California on June 1st 2021?	Binary
33.149	How many DC Fast public charging outlets/connections will be available in the United States by 2022?	Continuous
32.199	What will be the minimum unemployment rate in the United States for calendar year 2021?	Continuous
30.636	When will 10M people be administered a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate that has demonstrated an efficacy rate >75% in a n>500 RCT?	Continuous
30.511	What will the global weighted-average levelized cost of energy of onshore wind be in 2020, in 2018 USD per kWh?	Continuous
29.520	Will Richard Spencer receive a long-term Twitter ban before 2021?	Binary
29.008	What will the state-of-the-art performance on image classification on ImageNet be at 2021-06-14 in top-1 accuracy?	Continuous
27.789	What percent of ballots cast in the 2020 US general election will be cast via early in-person voting?	Continuous
26.779	What will be the sum of the performance (in exaFLOPS) of the top 500 supercomputers in the following dates? (June 2021)	Continuous
26.673	Will Andrew Yang run for mayor of New York in 2021?	Binary
26.251	What will be the 4-week average of initial jobless claims filed in February 2021?	Continuous
26.161	Will Gladys Berejiklian cease to be Premier of NSW before the next state election?	Binary
25.429	When will a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine be widely available for adults in the United States?	Continuous
24.191	Will Donald Trump attempt to pardon himself?	Binary
22.378	What will the margin of victory be between Kelly Loeffler and Raphael Warnock in the 2020 5 Jan GA Special Election?	Continuous
21.593	When will Beyond Chicken be available from a Grocery Store?	Continuous
21.321	What will the value of the herein defined Image Classification Performance Index be on 2021-06-14?	Continuous
20.778	Will the major Las Vegas casinos shut down again due to an increase in Covid-19 cases?	Binary
20.656	When will the U.S. rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement?	Continuous
19.914	When will the first Macs with Apple Silicon ship?	Continuous
19.148	How much will High Impact Athletes have donated by the end of 2021?	Continuous
18.644	What will be the total number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. by the end of 2021?	Continuous
17.286	When will 100M people receive a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate that has demonstrated an efficacy rate >75% in a n>500 RCT?	Continuous
16.798	What will the Womens winning 100m time in the 2020 Olympic Final be?	Continuous
14.976	When will the United States reach herd immunity (>230M) for COVID-19?	Continuous
14.928	What will be the Industrial Production Index number for February 2021?	Continuous
13.995	Will any of the nonprofits incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship become a future ACE top or standout charity by Jan 1, 2022?	Binary
13.771	If no human challenge trials are run for COVID-19 before February 5, 2021, how many total deaths in the US will be directly attributed to COVID-19 in 2021?	Continuous
12.199	When will traviswfisher be unseated on the Metaculus leaderboard?	Continuous
12.126	Will the Supreme Court of the US uphold the lower court's ruling in California v. Texas?	Binary
11.914	What will be the Alexa Traffic Rank for Metaculus.com on January 1st 2022?	Continuous
9.332	How many new cases of COVID-19 in the 1st quarter of 2021?	Continuous
8.553	Will Trump attempt to pardon a member of his family?	Binary
4.663	How many infections of COVID-19 will be estimated to have occurred before 2021? [50k-1B range]	Continuous
3.086	How many DC charging stations will Boulder, CO have by the end 2021?	Continuous
0.323	Will AMC Theatres file for bankruptcy protection before April 1 2021?	Binary
-0.235	What will the state-of-the-art performance on semantic segmentation of PASCAL-Context be at 2021-06-14 in mean IoU in percent (MIoU%)?	Continuous
-0.312	When will the Dow Jones Industrial Average set a new all-time record high close after the Coronavirus Crash of February 2020?	Continuous
-4.992	What will the state-of-the-art object detection performance on COCO be, at 2021-06-14 in box Average Precision (box AP)?	Continuous
-6.545	Will EA Global London 2021 be cancelled, rescheduled, or moved online?	Binary
-6.823	If the NYT publishes an article mentioning Slate Star Codex or Scott Alexander by July 2021, will it include his full name?	Binary
-7.075	Will a Glastonbury Festival take place in 2021?	Binary
-8.176	What will be the total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses purchased by the U.S. as of 30 June 2021?	Continuous
-8.217	Will a high profile criminal investigation take down a "hidden website" on the Tor Network during 2021?	Binary
-9.897	In the 2020 US Presidential election, when will the losing candidate concede? [closes 2021-01-20]	Continuous
-10.619	What will be the 4-week average of initial jobless claims filed in January 2021?	Continuous
-11.063	What will the total retail sales including food services be for January 2021?	Continuous
-11.360	How many infections of COVID-19 will be estimated to have occurred before 2021? [1-8B range]	Continuous
-11.654	What will the highest Exact Match rate of the best-performing model on SQuAD2.0 be on 2021-06-14?	Continuous
-11.737	Will the Open Courts Act become law?	Binary
-12.254	Will a language model with at least 100B parameters trained to do external information retrieval exist before 2023?	Binary
-14.038	If Lesswrong holds a similar Petrov Day event in 2021, will the "red button" be pressed?	Binary
-19.092	How much will the US federal government spend on income security in 2021 (in billions)?	Continuous
-21.878	What will the state-of-the-art performance on semantic segmentation on Cityscapes be at 2021-06-14 in mean IoU in percent (MIoU%)?	Continuous
-23.370	What will the value of the herein defined Object Detection Performance Index be on 2021-06-14?	Continuous
-25.083	Will Japan place in the Top 4 at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics?	Binary
-25.536	By February 1st, 2021, will Twitter temporarily or permanently suspend @realDonaldTrump or @POTUS based on alleged violations of Twitter's Terms of Service?	Binary
-27.896	How many people will be employed in the US education industry in 2021 (in thousands)?	Continuous
-28.064	What percentage of absentee ballots will be rejected in the 2020 US election?	Continuous
-28.303	Will an airborne wind energy system of at least 100kW be sold before 2022?	Binary
-28.724	What will the state-of-the-art performance on one-shot image classification on MiniImageNet be, on 2021-06-14, in accuracy?	Continuous
-28.775	Will Washington state’s Department of Revenue report a gross business income for Q1 2021 that reaches or exceeds pre-COVID levels from Q1 2019?	Binary
-37.174	When will the US unemployment rate fall to 4% or lower for the first time since the COVID-19 crisis of 2020?	Continuous
-42.455	Will an AI be trained using an Avogadro's number of operations before the end of 2020?	Binary
-48.179	What will be the Industrial Production Index number for January 2021?	Continuous
-48.571	How many athletes will have signed the High Impact Athletes giving pledge by the end of 2021?	Continuous
-50.135	How many billions of dollars of student loans will the US federal government forgive in 2021?	Continuous
-63.922	Will Derek Chauvin be acquitted of all murder charges?	Binary
-65.502	How many consumer electric vehicles (including PHEV, HEV and EV) will be sold by Volkswagen group in 2020?	Continuous
-66.999	Which month of 2021 will see the biggest global increase of COVID-19 cases?	Continuous
-68.248	Will the US Senate Majority Leader be a Republican on February 1st 2021?	Binary
-69.316	Will the world agree to new climate targets at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference?	Binary
-76.409	Will North Korea launch another intercontinental ballistic missile before 2022?	Binary
-77.757	Will Elon Musk be the richest person in the world at any point during the 2020s?	Binary
-78.904	Will Mathias Cormann become the next secretary-general of the OECD?	Binary
-90.616	What will US house prices be at the end of 2021?	Continuous
-101.335	What will be the differential in sales between the most-sold and second most-sold consumer electric vehicles in America in 2021?	Continuous
-103.089	When will it be legal to meet socially in groups larger than six in England?	Continuous
-103.790	How many DC charging stations will Orlando, FL have by the end 2021?	Continuous
-113.164	When will Disneyland reopen?	Continuous
-113.256	When will the US-Canada border reopen?	Continuous
-115.817	What will be the WTI oil price in December 2021?	Continuous
-116.419	When will the Chicago Symphony Orchestra have a public performance inside their concert hall?	Continuous
-116.983	What will be the value of C-band spectrum auctioned off by the FCC in Auction 107?	Continuous
-145.630	What will be the average top price performance (in G3D Mark /$) of the best available GPU on the following dates? (Jun-2021)	Continuous
-153.069	How many COVID-19 vaccines will be approved by the U.S. FDA as of 30 June 2021?	Continuous
-182.735	Will the UK's second wave reach 1000 deaths/day?	Binary
-211.730	What will inflation be in the US in 2021?	Continuous
-212.698	What will the maximum z-score be for Hungary for observed deaths in 2020-2021 according to Euromomo?	Continuous
-214.684	When will the U.S. lift its Presidential Proclamation restricting travel from the European Schengen Area?	Continuous