Deep Research Future Reports
I'm using Deep Research to generate reports that extrapolate the trends from a specific field 20 year into the future, chunked in 4-year increments. These reports are filled with "die-progress unit" events (a term from Tim Urban). They bring awe and anxiety. My plan is to generate and synthesize 20-50 of these reports and then write some Tim Urban-like piece that shows the future of our culture in nauseatingly high detail. The goal is to experience the DPU in literature so that you’re more prepared for when it actually happens. My understanding of what writing could be like in the 2030s and 2040s is so different now, that I won’t be bothered by an upgrade in 2026.
These reports are more like LSD then cocaine, after you try it, you want less of it. That was a joke, but actually I just had a “bad trip” on my super-intelligence report, and need to put it down and continue tomorrow. It’s not like I run a lot of prompts. 1 per day, 2 max.
( ... Future Cube: idea for an interface that uses LLMs to interpolate details between futuristic predictions. There are 3 axis: time, groups, streams (technological, economic, political, social). You can place 3 events (quantum computing reaches X by 2028, the US federal government dissolves, and unemployment reaches 20%), and then it can make predictions in other fields (crypto, relationships, video games, etc.) based on those events ... )