Philip E. Tetlock ✓
@PTetlock · Philadelphia, PA · joined 03 Oct 2011
Penn-Integrates-Knowledge (PIK) Professor, Wharton & School of Arts & Sciences. Likes = interesting; Retweets = very interesting; Interesting ≠ endorsement
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| Engagement rate | 0.65% | 1.64% | 0.40× |
Latest posts
there is a surprisingly big cognitive-stylistic gap between people who say "certainly" versus "almost certainly--and zero versus .001
Granularity matters.
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30 Jul 2026
The only people claiming any theory was “proven” were those insisting a lab leak could be ruled out altogether using words like dispositive, debunked, conspiracy theory, zero evidence etc.
I’ve used words like “almost certainly” about a lab leak and “probable” and “likely” but
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29 Jul 2026
Brace yourself for the next wave of questions: what do the emerging AI superforecasters think about the predictions of the human experts and superforecasters on the risks of AI?
Game theory run amok.
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13 Jul 2026
What do experts and superforecasters predict about the potential risks from AI?
In the latest wave of the Longitudinal Expert AI Panel (LEAP), we asked for predictions on:
• Major harm from an AI-related event
• Catastrophic risk from AI (and from all causes)
• Government https
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30 Jun 2026
Examining the quality of the methodology & participants--& depth of the questions-- this study is the most ambitious subjective-probability forecasting exercise I've ever seen. Agree or disagree with the conclusions, this is a state-of-the-art benchmark to beat
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31 Mar 2026
We completed the most comprehensive study of how economists and AI experts think AI will affect the U.S. economy.
They predict major AI progress—but no dramatic break from economic trends: GDP growth rates similar to today's and a moderate decline in labor force participation. h
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31 Mar 2026
A recurring forecasting failure (you can almost take this one to the bank).
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23 Feb 2026
I have underestimated to what extent people interested in politics believe the good guys are perpetually on the verge of defeating the bad guys once and for all.
here is Rush Limbaugh in 1993 predicting the imminent implosion of liberalism: https://t.co/NRs5blQPc4
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22 Feb 2026
Variants of this question are popping up a lot nowadays: How much should the moral character of an artist or scholar or scientist sway our assessments of the value of their creative output?
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20 Feb 2026
While Marx's wife was pregnant, he impregnated their housemaid. To hide this from Marx's wife so she wouldn't get angry, Engels pretended he was the father. Then they gave the kid away. Both Marx and Engels abandoned him, pretending the kid didn't exist. https://t.co/imbZ76TjBY h
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07 Dec 2022
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