Predictive intelligence to anticipate anything.

(prior.chat)

12 points | by onemarkos 2 hours ago

10 comments

  • sva_ 13 minutes ago
    You can just open a new private browser window for a new prediction. But I'm unsure about their value.

    I asked it how many predictions it'll get right by Q4 2030 and it seems fairly confident in itself:

    68% Prior averages 71% to 75% directional quarterly accuracy by 2030, matching elite human forecasting teams.

  • Xcelerate 51 minutes ago
    I asked it to predict the first 1 KB of Chaitin’s constant. It hung, froze, then said I used up my free quota. Sounds about right.
    • foobar10000 43 minutes ago
      Sigh... I'm willing to bet (and this is not a hard thing to bet on) that even bb(50) is independent of ZFC and similar, and Omega(1KB) is > 748 , which is at this point known to be independent of ZFC.... Please do not ask the LLM to break the universe :)
      • boothby 18 minutes ago
        "Fuck off that's a waste of my time" is the final moat
  • johnnyo 1 hour ago
    I asked a question, server hung, then told me I had no more free questions without giving me an answer.
  • humoctopus 51 minutes ago
    I asked who would win the 2028 US presidential election and it said Vance at 51% likelihood.

    That's not an unreasonable prediction but it's a little bit of a cop-out, especially the 51% bit.

  • layer8 1 hour ago
    > Prior helps you anticipate anything: sports, markets […]. Our goal is to create the most powerful predictive intelligence in existence.

    Assuming that it gets anywhere close to that goal, does it take into consideration the effects of its predictions on the markets and calculates a fixpoint? (Or, maybe more likely, how the resulting chaotic system will behave?)

    • ponkpanda 54 minutes ago
      Obviously not.

      There is no tool that can do what this tool is claiming to do. At best, it can make reasonable inferences based on data it has available using whatever model it is using (assuming it's not a fraud) but key parts of the world are irreducibly complex. They cannot be predicted and that is without the problem of reflexivity which you correctly highlight as an issue - even for a notionally perfect prediction engine.

      Given enough compute and data, you could model every human on the planet at subatomic granularity and you'd a) be chaotically sensitive to initial conditions; b) be subject to random quantum fluctuations.

      Nice enough frontend though.

    • turzmo 56 minutes ago
      I assume that will be a feature available for the higher tier subscriptions...
      • layer8 42 minutes ago
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  • stevage 1 hour ago
    There is no way to know if this has any substance behind it or not or is just some sort of marketing sign-up page
    • amelius 0 minutes ago
      Why not? There are ways to check if a coin flip is fair or not to some level of confidence. Similar principle here.
    • wavewrangler 18 minutes ago
      Give it a whirl. You’ll have your answer pretty quickly, or not so quickly
    • SoftTalker 24 minutes ago
      If it did have any substance they'd connect it to Kalshi or Polymarket and start printing money.
  • chneu 19 minutes ago
    The show Devs kind of deals with this topic.

    Tldr: dudes wife/kid die in an unpredictable accident so he builds a super computer that predicts things, and can even go back in time using probability. Interesting story.

  • pluc 1 hour ago
    how many millionaires has this generated i wonder

    this is basically technical astrology.

    • wavewrangler 21 minutes ago
      Or is it or practically astrology, and technically numerology?
  • layer8 36 minutes ago
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