At some point someone will probably try to give a program the fitness function of survive and reproduce.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?
Reasoning
Prediction with no horizon ('at some point') and vague.
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Sam Altman, “At some point someone will probably try to give a program the fitness function of survive and reproduce.” (said February 2015). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_28c1bea0d5e9, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_28c1bea0d5e9
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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