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Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 When these policies are properly priced, we welcome the pain-today, gain-tomorrow effects they have. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 We will decide that vote based on the wishes of a majority of shareholders, not shares. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 There are no "bargains" among our current holdings: We�re content with what we own but far from excited by it. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not researched Warren Buffett Factual 28 Feb 2001 JM's CEO Jerry Henry announced retirement plans a year earlier, but Buffett and Munger convinced him to stay on. Warren Buffett · Factual · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 My debt to him is incalculable. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 Indeed, erroneous reports are particularly dangerous when they are circulated by highly-respected members of the media, simply because most… Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not researched Warren Buffett Factual 28 Feb 2001 Berkshire's 2000 acquisitions cost about $8 billion, 97% paid in cash and 3% in stock. Warren Buffett · Factual · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 The managers of our shoe businesses are first-class from both a business and human perspective. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not researched Warren Buffett Factual 28 Feb 2001 Buffett's investment performance improved beginning in 1951. Warren Buffett · Factual · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not researched Warren Buffett Factual 28 Feb 2001 The family-run jewelry business's same-store sales rose 9%, 11%, 13%, 10%, 12%, 21% and 7% over the past seven years. Warren Buffett · Factual · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 There will be plenty of action in town. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Own records only Warren Buffett Prediction 28 Feb 2001 CORT looks like a good bet to beat Berkshire's original expectations for the business. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 Really juicy results from negotiated deals can be anticipated only when capital markets are severely constrained and the whole business… Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 Quite simply, a few hours spent at the feet of the master proved far more valuable to me than had ten years of supposedly original thinking. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Resolved true Warren Buffett Promise 28 Feb 2001 If the new Convention Center is available, Buffett will poll shareholders on whether to return to a Monday annual meeting. Warren Buffett · Promise · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 We may regain some economic goodwill at Dexter in the future, but we clearly have none at present. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 we would never issue a policy that lacked a cap. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 I don�t want to tip my hand, so let�s just say Ernie will have to deal with a pitch he has never seen before. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 At Berkshire, we make no attempt to pick the few winners that will emerge from an ocean of unproven enterprises. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 The declines make no difference to us, given that we expect all of our businesses to now and then have ups and downs. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 Tony Nicely, GEICO�s CEO, remains an owner�s dream. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 The Constitution�s First Amendment allows the media to print or say almost anything. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 But value is destroyed, not created, by any business that loses money over its lifetime, no matter how high its interim valuation may get. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Own records only Warren Buffett Factual 28 Feb 2001 Buffett said "we believe" that Berkshire's gain in per-share intrinsic value for the year (2000) moderately exceeded its gain in book value, and he called this judgment "necessarily subjective". Warren Buffett · Factual · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not researched Warren Buffett Factual 28 Feb 2001 Berkshire's 2000 book-value gain outpaced the performance of the S&P 500. Warren Buffett · Factual · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 a small annual advantage in our favor can, if sustained, produce an anything-but-small long-term advantage. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 Nevertheless, this retroactive insurance should be decent business for us. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not researched Warren Buffett Factual 28 Feb 2001 Buffett believed he understood the future economics of trading stamps, textiles, shoes and second-tier department stores, and was mistaken. Warren Buffett · Factual · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 Reported earnings are an inadequate measure of economic progress at Berkshire Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Unresolvable Warren Buffett Promise 28 Feb 2001 At the April 28, 2001 meeting, doors will open at 7 a.m., the movie will begin at 8:30 and the meeting will start at 9:30. Warren Buffett · Promise · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not researched Warren Buffett Factual 28 Feb 2001 Since first publishing its economic principles in 1983, Berkshire has consistently stated it would rather purchase businesses than stocks. Warren Buffett · Factual · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 But the business is a lemon if its cost of float is higher than market rates for money. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 Agonizing over errors is a mistake. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 By shamelessly merchandising birdless bushes, promoters have in recent years moved billions of dollars from the pockets of the public to… Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 We are pleased that the Financial Accounting Standards Board has since gone to an alternative approach that strikes us as very sound. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Own records only Warren Buffett Factual 28 Feb 2001 Buffett knew nothing about CORT but immediately printed out its SEC filings and liked what he saw. Warren Buffett · Factual · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 It will be a different story this year. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not researched Warren Buffett Factual 28 Feb 2001 GEICO's increased advertising spending in 2000 did not produce a commensurate increase in inquiries. Warren Buffett · Factual · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Mostly true Warren Buffett Promise 28 Feb 2001 Buffett and Charlie Munger will answer shareholder questions until 3:30 p.m. at the 2001 meeting, except for a noon break. Warren Buffett · Promise · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not researched Warren Buffett Factual 28 Feb 2001 Buffett told shareholders a year earlier that Berkshire would get its money's worth from stepped-up GEICO advertising in 2000, and that proved wrong. Warren Buffett · Factual · 28 Feb 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 I clearly made a mistake in paying what I did for Dexter in 1993. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not checkable Warren Buffett Not checkable 28 Feb 2001 I should pay to have my job. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 28 Feb 2001
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 As of 2001, nanobot size and cost were the primary features not yet practical for brain-scanning nanobots. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Science and research methods
Own records only Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 At any time, Kurzweil's company could sell the prior version of its software for perhaps a quarter of the price of the current version. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 The bulk of human experiences will shift from real reality to virtual reality. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 Technology
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 Kurzweil's first book, The Age of Intelligent Machines, written in the 1980s, ended with the prospect of machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence, and he found it difficult to look beyond that. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Their own work or organisation
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 Because most of the genome is redundant, the brain's initial design is characterized by about one hundred million bytes, about the size of Microsoft Word. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Science and research methods
Not yet due Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 By 2050, $1000 of computing will equal the processing power of all human brains on Earth. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 Some philosophers maintain that achieving human-level intelligence is impossible without a body. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Philosophy, ethics and society
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 Noninvasively scanning a living brain will ultimately become feasible as MRI, optical and other scanning improve. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 Science and research methods
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 Kurzweil's technical field is pattern recognition, and his projects over more than thirty years have used chaotic computing. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 Stock values of B2B and B2C web portals and enabling technologies are likely to come back strongly as e-commerce escalates and surviving firms show profitable models. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 It took ninety years to achieve the first MIPS per thousand dollars, and as of 2001 one MIPS per thousand dollars is added every day. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 AI compute, hardware and data
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 The brain's massive parallelism is the key to its pattern recognition abilities. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Science and research methods
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 As of 2001, computer games already claim to be conscious, and they are not terribly convincing. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not yet due Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 Most of civilization's intelligence will be nonbiological, and by the end of the 21st century will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than human intelligence. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 The Broadcast Architecture, requiring replication codes from a central secure server, is impossible in the biological world, so nanotechnology can be made safer than biotechnology in that respect. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 AI safety and alignment
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 In Kurzweil's view, the likely outcome is that superhuman intelligences will appear to biological humans as transcendent servants satisfying their needs and desires. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 AI safety and alignment
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 The brain is not an undifferentiated blank slate but a collection of hundreds of specialized, interconnected regions. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Science and research methods
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 Radical extensions to human longevity and far greater economic expansion do not rule each other out, because the positive factors are stronger and will ultimately dominate. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 Economics and markets
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 For the past two centuries automation has eliminated low-skill jobs while creating new, better paying higher-skill jobs. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 AI, the economy and work
Mostly false Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 Computers will be able to read on their own, understanding and modeling what they read, by the second decade of the 21st century. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 AI capabilities
Mostly false Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 A personal computer can download fully trained speech-recognition patterns in seconds without repeating the training process. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 The number of college students has increased one hundred fold. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 There are no natural limits preventing functionally equivalent recreation of the hundred-billion-neuron human brain. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 A defect in the mechanism limiting nanobot self-replication would endanger all physical entities, biological or otherwise. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 AI safety and alignment
Not checkable Jim Cramer Not checkable Jan 2001 I don’t know if in six months this thesis, this mantra, will work for weeks, if not months because in three months I know it will be higher Jim Cramer · Not checkable · Jan 2001
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 Sizes of a broad range of electronic and mechanical technologies are shrinking at a double exponential rate. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Technology
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 The Internet's emergence as a worldwide phenomenon was predictable much earlier from exponential trend data. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Technology
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 The history of technology shows that technological change is exponential. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 By the third decade of the twenty-first century, we will be in a position to create highly detailed and complete maps of all relevant features of all neurons, neural connections and synapses in the human brain, and to recreate these designs in suitably advanced neural computers. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 Technology companies' rapid creation of real wealth will continue to fuel ongoing double exponential growth in the economy. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 Investments in education at all levels have been increasing exponentially. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Economics and markets
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 Moore's Law follows an S curve, reaching a level where exponential growth is no longer feasible. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 AI compute, hardware and data
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 Undetectable spy nanobots placed in food or water could monitor, influence and even control people's thoughts and actions. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 AI safety and alignment
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 Sufficient nuclear weapons exist today, not all apparently well accounted for, to end all mammalian life on the planet. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Other global risks
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 A specific technological paradigm provides exponential growth until its potential is exhausted. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Technology
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 Computer speed per unit cost doubled every three years in 1910-1950, every two years in 1950-1966, and was doubling every year as of 2001. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 AI compute, hardware and data
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 Chips of 2001 are flat, while the human brain is organized in three dimensions. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 AI compute, hardware and data
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 When one computer learns a skill or gains an insight, it can immediately share it with billions of other machines. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 AI capabilities
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Citation Jan 2001 Hans Moravec and others have speculated that efficient brain simulations require about 1,000 times less computation than the theoretical potential of the biological neurons simulated. Ray Kurzweil · Citation · Jan 2001 AI compute, hardware and data
Mostly false Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 Supercomputers will achieve one human brain's capacity by 2010, and personal computers by around 2020. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 The economic growth rate will continue to grow exponentially because the rate of progress will continue to accelerate. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 The creative and constructive applications of advanced technology like nanotech and AI will dominate over harmful ones. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 Technology
Not yet due Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 By 2030, nanobot technology will be viable and brain scanning will be a prominent application. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 Science and research methods
Mostly false Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 Exponential-outlook views of the economy will prevail gradually over the next several years, producing a strong continuing updraft for the stock market. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 Technologies being researched (3D chips, optical, crystalline, DNA, quantum computing) will keep exponential growth in computation going for a long time. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 AI compute, hardware and data
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 Future machines will claim to be people and to have the full range of emotional and spiritual experiences people claim. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 Philosophy, ethics and society
Own records only Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 At Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, each slightly more intelligent version of its speech recognition software invariably had greater value than the previous generation and sales increased as a result. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 Because of repetitive patterns in each brain region, capturing every detail is not necessary to reverse engineer the significant digital-analog algorithms. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Science and research methods
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 The human brain uses an electrochemical digital-controlled analog computational process that is very inefficient. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Science and research methods
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 In Kurzweil's view, the intelligence that emerges after the Singularity will continue to represent human civilization, which he described as already a human-machine civilization. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Own records only Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 Kurzweil told a Nobel-winning panelist that 100 years was a reasonable estimate of the technical progress needed for self-replicating nanoengineered entities, at the rate of progress then current. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Other global risks
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 Technological progress will ultimately become so fast that it exceeds humans' ability to follow it. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 The brain gets its powers from extremely parallel organization in three dimensions. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Science and research methods
Not researched Ray Kurzweil Factual Jan 2001 The economic models used for social security projections are entirely linear, assuming fixed economic growth. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Jan 2001 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 The Singularity will transform all aspects of life, including social, sexual and economic. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 Any skill, capability or form of intelligence one cares to define will be replicated in nonbiological machines within a few decades. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction Jan 2001 According to Kurzweil's models, adopting an exponential rather than linear outlook means current stock prices should triple, adding about $40 trillion on roughly $20 trillion of equity. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · Jan 2001 Economics and markets
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“The primary features that are not yet practical are nanobot size and cost.”

Ray Kurzweil, essay author January 2001 The Law of Accelerating Returns (Kurzweil Library)

As of 2001, nanobot size and cost were the primary features not yet practical for brain-scanning nanobots.

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Ray Kurzweil, “As of 2001, nanobot size and cost were the primary features not yet practical for brain-scanning nanobots.” (said January 2001). Verdict: not researched. Reliability API, claim c_00f7cfff8d64, method 0.1.0+28da144b. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_00f7cfff8d64

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