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Blog Post: Foretold.io Retrospective #5

Open OAGr opened 2 years ago

OAGr commented 2 years ago

We spent ~20 person-months or something on Foretold.io, and have stopped working on it.

The main reasons were:

  1. Metaculus seemed to be growing & hiring a lot. (Originally this seemed less likely)
  2. It was more work than expected. I originally was hoping we'd find some clever ways of making it much simpler, we didn't really.
  3. In order to keep it active, it would have taken ~2 full-time people, at least (one programmer, one community organizer/question writer). This was a lot for the time.
  4. We weren't really able to solve the problem of what to do about data management. (Large tables of semantic predictions).
  5. We moved Squiggle into a separate project, which ideally could be used with Metaculus and other platforms.

I could see writing this as a ~2k word blog post, but I'd expect this to take a week or so.