ClaimsDario Amodei

“In particular I expect improvements in mental health, well-being, and education to increase democracy, as all three are negatively correlated with support for authoritarian leaders.”

Dario Amodei, essay author 17 August 2015 Machines of Loving Grace (darioamodei.com)

Prediction Philosophy, ethics and society

Amodei expects improvements in mental health, well-being and education to increase democracy, citing that all three are negatively correlated with support for authoritarian leaders.

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

A diffuse causal expectation about democracy with no horizon, and effects cannot be isolated.

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Dario Amodei, “Amodei expects improvements in mental health, well-being and education to increase democracy, citing that all three are negatively correlated with support for authoritarian leaders.” (said 17 August 2015). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_71008fc59f8f, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_71008fc59f8f

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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