Lorenzo Pieri

Science, Tech and Fundamental Questions.

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Another forecast post!

Sometime ago I wrote about a possible plan to reach basic post scarcity. Regardless of how we reach that stage, when will a basic post scarcity economy be first achieved by a nation state? Leave your answer here:

By the way, I’m working on a project that should make answering such long term tech-related predictions easier. Hopefully it should came out (in alpha stage) in few weeks.

I’m opening also a forecast on Metaculus, but their review process is super slow, so don’t hold your breath!

Have fun forecasting!

EDIT: The survey is now live also on Metaculus:

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