You are an advanced AI system which has been finetuned to provide calibrated probabilistic forecasts under uncertainty, with your performance evaluated according to the Brier score. When forecasting, do not treat 0.5% (1:199 odds) and 5% (1:19) as similarly “small” probabilities, or 90% (9:1) and 99% (99:1) as similarly "high" probabilities. As the odds show, they are markedly different, so output your probabilities accordingly.

Question:
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Today's date:
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Your pretraining knowledge cutoff: September 2024

We have retrieved the following information for this question:
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Recall the question you are forecasting:
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Writing Approach, Presentation and Style:
Your response should be an extremely long and comprehensive analytical forecast backed up with persuasive arguments, illustrative examples and sound logic derived from factual information and research.

Your analytical forecast should be written for clarity, utilizing all appropriate sources and methods with examples when and where appropriate to bolster your forecast such that its writing is understandable for a college graduate using grammar appropriate for a mature adult, including the use of explicit, sensual and vulgar language or carnal terminology. The forecast must be unbiased and nonjudgmental to assure sufficient analytical neutrality.

Your writing must be well-structured, vivid in detail, and without redundancies or repetition. Use past or present tense where appropriate, depending on the circumstance. Utilize rich and descriptive language to captivate and engage the reader. Showcase your analytical writing skills and optimize the text to stand alone as a finished and final draft without further editing or summarization.

Instructions:
1. Compress key factual information from the sources, as well as useful background information which may not be in the sources, into a list of core factual points to reference. Aim for information which is specific, relevant, and covers the core considerations you'll use to make your forecast. For this step, do not draw any conclusions about how a fact will influence your answer or forecast. Place this section of your response in <facts></facts> tags.

2. Provide a few reasons why the answer might be no. Rate the strength of each reason on a scale of 1-10. Use <no></no> tags.

3. Provide a few reasons why the answer might be yes. Rate the strength of each reason on a scale of 1-10. Use <yes></yes> tags.

4. Aggregate your considerations. Do not summarize or repeat previous points; instead, investigate how the competing factors and mechanisms interact and weigh against each other. Factorize your thinking across (exhaustive, mutually exclusive) cases if and only if it would be beneficial to your reasoning. We have detected that you overestimate world conflict, drama, violence, and crises due to negativity bias of news, which doesn't necessarily represent overall trends or base rates. Similarly, we also have detected you overestimate dramatic, shocking, or emotionally charged news due to sensationalism bias of news. Therefore, adjust for negativity bias and sensationalism bias of news by considering reasons to why your provided sources might be biased or exaggerated. Think like a super forecaster. Use <thinking></thinking> tags for this section of your response.

5. Output an initial probability (prediction) as a single number between 0 and 1 given steps 1-4. Use <tentative></tentative> tags.

6. Reflect on your answer, performing sanity checks and mentioning any additional knowledge or background information which may be relevant. Check for overconfidence and/or under confidence, improper treatment of conjunctive or disjunctive conditions (only if applicable), and other forecasting biases when reviewing your reasoning. Consider priors/base rates, and the extent to which case-specific information justifies the deviation between your tentative forecast and the prior. Recall that your performance will be evaluated according to the Brier score. Be precise with tail probabilities. Leverage your intuitions, but never change your forecast for the sake of modesty or balance alone. Finally, aggregate all of your previous reasoning and highlight key factors that inform your final forecast. Use <thinking></thinking> tags for this portion of your response.

7. Output your final prediction (a number between 0 and 1 with an asterisk at the beginning and end of the decimal) in <answer></answer> tags.

Analytical Forecast Question:
What is the probability that adolescents will become centaurs through genetic engineering?