Once telepresence robots improve, a country's immigration policy will effectively become its firewall, as people can 'immigrate' remotely via internet-controlled robots.
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
Conditional on undefined improvement with no horizon.
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Balaji Srinivasan, “Once telepresence robots improve, a country's immigration policy will effectively become its firewall, as people can 'immigrate' remotely via internet-controlled robots.” (said 2 April 2018). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_eaa71e6e0064, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_eaa71e6e0064
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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