Tyler Cowen said that when he wrote that post he was convinced it was going nowhere, but that it is still a thing.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
What would count as true or false
This is a claim about what Cowen himself believed and about whether the thing he wrote about persists. True: the post he refers to exists and shows (or is consistent with) scepticism that the phenomenon would last, and evidence from around 2024-12-25 shows the phenomenon was still active or relevant at that date. Mostly true: the phenomenon was still current, but the post shows only mild or partial scepticism rather than being 'convinced it was going nowhere'. Mixed: one of the two parts holds (his earlier scepticism, or the phenomenon persisting) and the other is unclear. Mostly false: the post shows he expected the phenomenon to continue, or the phenomenon was largely gone by December 2024 and survived only marginally. False: the post plainly predicted success or persistence, and the phenomenon had clearly ended by December 2024.
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Reasoning
No evidence with a verified quote was found apart from the claim's own source, so the claim was not judged.
Cite this claim
Tyler Cowen, “Tyler Cowen said that when he wrote that post he was convinced it was going nowhere, but that it is still a thing.” (said 25 December 2024). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_bcea2fd7a68a, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_bcea2fd7a68a
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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