The Next Fifteen Years

A forecast built from first principles
Section future / 05-probabilities / register.md

Distributed predictions register#


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The seven-row table is not the only place this corpus commits to numbers. Domain pages state their own probability-stamped predictions in blockquotes, per the file conventions. Invariant 4 requires every such probability to appear in Part V or link to it; this page is where they appear. It is also the feeder for the resolution log - when a claim below comes due, it gets scored there under the same rules as the main table.

The first claims due table in Part VIII is the near-term subset of this register plus the indicator triggers; this page is the complete set of confidence-stamped claims.

The register#

Ordered by due date. "P" is the stated confidence at the source; the source page carries the full claim and its failure mode.

DuePClaim (short)Where
2029~65%>40% of new US frontier-training capacity on owned or bilateral generationEnergy
2030~55%Driver-out hub-to-hub freight at commercial scale on major US corridorsLogistics
2030~60%Binding rules on companion AI for minors in major marketsMeaning
2030~70%AI-specific liability coverage as a material line with published ratesInsurance
2032~60%Cyber: deterioration 2026–29, then structural improvement in the 2030sCybersecurity
2032~70%Majority of general-purpose robot units manufactured globally are Chinese-madeRobotics - supply chain
2032~70%Agricultural yield gains real (5–15% per input) while farm operating margins stay statistically unchangedAgriculture
2032~90%No major disruption to Taiwanese leading-edge output (input assumption)Uncertainty 4
2035~15%Meaningful UBI in a major economyFiscal
2035~30%Gulf capacity converts into broad domestic economic transformationGulf
2035~30%Productivity step-up raises real rates >100bp against the demographic tideRates → row 2
2035~50%A major central bank formally revises its target definition or tolerance bandPrices
2035~55% / ~25%Global South: meaningful welfare gains / meaningful growth gainsGlobal South
2035~70%Licensed-trades real wage growth outpaces credentialed cognitive professionsAssets
204040 / 45 / 15Growth outcome forks: materially higher / meaningful / disappointment2032–2040

Conditional claims - scoreable only if their trigger fires:

ConditionPClaim (short)Where
The 2027–29 correction arrives~65%Proximate trigger is a credit event in AI-adjacent structured financeCapital
A salient incident occurs~50%Operative technical content of the response is industry-originatedGame 2

Decompositions - attribution splits, not event probabilities; scored on mechanism accuracy:

SplitClaimWhere
50 / 30 / 20Entry-level hiring decline: AI substitution / cyclical / work-organization - flagged at source as the number most likely to be revisedGame 4

Round 19 closed the two flags this page opened in round 18: the energy 2029 and agriculture 2032 predictions were stamped (~65%, ~70%) at source and moved into the table above.

Reading the register as a set#

Three cautions apply to the table above that do not apply to any single row read alone.

Shared inputs cluster the outcomes. The ~90% Taiwan row is not one prediction among sixteen; it is an input sitting under most of the others. The robotics supply-chain claim, the cyber trajectory, the growth fork, and every compute-gated date inherit it, so the register's failure modes are correlated through it - if that row resolves badly, the correct response is the full-table re-score the main table mandates, not row-by-row scoring of claims whose common assumption failed. A second, softer cluster runs through permitting: the energy 2029 claim, the rates claim, and parts of the growth fork all lean on Uncertainty 2 resolving the way the corpus expects.

The tildes mean something. Every "~" marks a number elicited to the nearest 5 or 10 points, stated at the source page in the course of an argument rather than through the deliberation the seven main rows got. Calibration analysis should bucket them accordingly - a ~65% register claim resolving false is one point of evidence about a 60-70 band, not a Brier-score catastrophe. The compensating discipline is volume: sixteen roughly-stated claims scored together say more about calibration than seven carefully-stated ones, which is why scoring judges the bands across both pages jointly.

Resolution will be contested for about a third of these. "Commercial scale," "material line," "broad transformation" have judgment in them. The scoring rule already anticipates this - the source page carries the operational definition and the failure mode - but a register reader should know in advance which rows are crisp (Taiwan, Chinese-made majority, published insurance rates) and which will need the resolution argued in the ledger rather than looked up. A claim whose resolution essay exceeds its original argument was a badly specified claim, and logging that is itself framework correction.

How this page is maintained#

Any round that adds a probability-stamped blockquote anywhere in the corpus must add a row here in the same round (Reconcile step). When a claim resolves, its row moves to the resolution log with the outcome and the framework correction. Calibration is judged across this register and the main table together - the scoring 60% band lives mostly on this page.

Partial resolution rule: if a blockquote bundles clauses (e.g. consolidation and lag), score each clause when it becomes decidable - do not wait for the whole sentence. Document partials in the ledger; leave the source blockquote as authored until a re-score round rewrites it under scoring rule 5. That is how the open-weight lag was handled in r25–26 without laundering the miss.

Taiwan cluster: the ~90% fab row is not one of sixteen independent bets - it sits under compute-gated dates, robotics supply, and bipolar capacity. Gray-zone indicators (U4) can stress the consumed assumption while the stated disruption row still "holds." Log soft fails in the ledger before treating green crisis dashboards as vindication.


Related: Main table · Ledger · Scoring · Indicators

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