Vinod Khosla recently read Ben Austen's WIRED article about Steve Jobs.
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What would count as true or false
The reading itself cannot be checked directly, so this turns on whether the article exists. True: a WIRED article by Ben Austen about Steve Jobs was published shortly before September 2012 (within roughly the previous year). Mostly true: such an article exists but was published somewhat earlier, or the byline or topic differs slightly. Mostly false: the article is by a different author or in a different publication. False: WIRED's archive shows no Ben Austen article about Jobs.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (3)
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E1 Robert I. Sutton's Blog, page 6 Goodreads (blog of Robert I. Sutton, Stanford management professor) · 28 July 2012
“I can't even recall quite when it happened, but several month back a Wired reporter named Ben Austen called me about a piece he was doing on Steve Jobs' legacy.”
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E2 Don't Try to Be Completely Like Steve Jobs ZURB (design company blog) · 23 July 2012
“He's the cover story of this month's Wired magazine. In the article, writer Ben Austen brings up a very excellent and interesting idea — does Jobs deserve to be the patron of saint of entrepreneurs or is he merely a devil in disguise?”
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E3 The Zen of “The Zen of Steve Jobs” Graphically Inclined (WordPress blog) · 31 October 2012
“Isaacson’s biography and the Wired magazine article “The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale?” (Wired, August 2012) by Ben Austen point out that”
Reasoning
Three independent sources describe a WIRED article by Ben Austen about Steve Jobs that was published shortly before September 2012. E2 (dated July 2012) calls it the cover story of that month's WIRED. E1 (also July 2012) is from a Stanford professor whom Austen interviewed for a piece on Jobs' legacy. E3 gives the title and dates the issue August 2012. The sources differ by about a month on the issue date, but either date falls within the year before the claim, which meets the criteria for true.
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Vinod Khosla, “Vinod Khosla recently read Ben Austen's WIRED article about Steve Jobs.” (said 9 September 2012). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_0a3e0b9ed6cc, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_0a3e0b9ed6cc
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