| Not yet due |
Balaji Srinivasan | Prediction |
25 Mar 2021 |
There is about a 30 percent chance of a firewall attack on Bitcoin, over a timeframe the interviewer framed as the next five years.
Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 25 Mar 2021 |
Economics and markets |
| Resolved true |
Ray Dalio | Factual |
22 Mar 2021 |
Ray Dalio has systemized his definition of a bubble into a "bubble indicator" that he monitors for each market.
Ray Dalio · Factual · 22 Mar 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Elon Musk | Promise |
14 Mar 2021 |
A SpaceX Falcon booster will fly for the ninth time on the night of 14 March 2021.
Elon Musk · Promise · 14 Mar 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly false |
Elon Musk | Promise |
6 Mar 2021 |
Tesla will add a "Download Beta" button for FSD Beta to the Service section of the car display in about 10 days from 6 March 2021.
Elon Musk · Promise · 6 Mar 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Mixed |
Elon Musk | Promise |
6 Mar 2021 |
Tesla is doubling the FSD Beta program size with software version 8.2 and will probably expand it about tenfold with version 8.3.
Elon Musk · Promise · 6 Mar 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Yann LeCun | Prediction |
4 Mar 2021 |
Researchers may never develop techniques to represent suitable probability distributions over high-dimensional continuous spaces such as all possible video frames.
Yann LeCun · Prediction · 4 Mar 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
4 Mar 2021 |
The Siamese network / joint embedding idea goes back to papers from Geoff Hinton's lab and Yann LeCun's group in the early 1990s.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 4 Mar 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Resolved true |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
4 Mar 2021 |
Language models pretrained with self-supervised learning achieve considerably higher performance than models trained solely in a supervised manner.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 4 Mar 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Mostly true |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
4 Mar 2021 |
Facebook has deployed XLM-R, a model based on its RoBERTa architecture, to improve hate speech classifiers in multiple languages across Facebook and Instagram.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 4 Mar 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable |
Yann LeCun | Prediction |
4 Mar 2021 |
Perhaps, in the long run, non-contrastive methods with latent-variable predictive models will prove a better alternative.
Yann LeCun · Prediction · 4 Mar 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Mostly true |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
4 Mar 2021 |
LeCun said Facebook AI had created and open sourced SEER, a billion-parameter self-supervised computer vision model that he described as proven to work efficiently with complex, high-dimensional image data.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 4 Mar 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Mostly true |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
4 Mar 2021 |
As of March 2021, self-supervised learning had not yet brought computer vision the same improvements it has brought to natural language processing.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 4 Mar 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Mostly true |
Elon Musk | Factual |
4 Mar 2021 |
Starship SN10 landed intact (as of 4 March 2021).
Elon Musk · Factual · 4 Mar 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
4 Mar 2021 |
The Barlow Twins method tries to minimize redundancy between the individual components of the embedding vectors.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 4 Mar 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Resolved true |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
4 Mar 2021 |
After pretraining on a billion unlabeled Instagram images and fine-tuning on ImageNet, SEER outperformed state-of-the-art self-supervised systems, reaching 84.2 percent top-1 accuracy on ImageNet.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 4 Mar 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable |
Elon Musk | Promise |
3 Mar 2021 |
SpaceX will make a Starship test flight attempt about five minutes after this post on 3 March 2021.
Elon Musk · Promise · 3 Mar 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved false |
Elon Musk | Promise |
3 Mar 2021 |
SpaceX will attempt a Starship launch on 4 March 2021, with the window opening at 9am.
Elon Musk · Promise · 3 Mar 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true |
Elon Musk | Factual |
2 Mar 2021 |
The city of Starbase, Texas is being created (as of 2 March 2021).
Elon Musk · Factual · 2 Mar 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
14 Feb 2021 |
The NYT journalist has not known about Slate Star Codex for three years, so he read the edited version of the Voldemort post that told people not to take it out of context.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Mixed |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
14 Feb 2021 |
The NYT's original pitch was interest in how Scott Alexander warned early about the coronavirus pandemic and urged mask-wearing before it was standard advice.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Scott Alexander | Prediction |
14 Feb 2021 |
Far more people will read the NYT article than will read Scott Alexander's response, so the NYT's plan will probably work.
Scott Alexander · Prediction · 14 Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
14 Feb 2021 |
Scott Alexander's Contra Grant post states "My research suggests no average gender difference in ability".
Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
14 Feb 2021 |
Scott Alexander said the NYT's characterisation was true only insofar as he once expressed agreement with an unrelated Charles Murray position: that telling poor people to learn to code is insufficient and a stable income is needed.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
14 Feb 2021 |
Scott Alexander received support from Steven Pinker, Larry Sanger, Jonathan Haidt, Liv Boeree and Yascha Mounk.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
14 Feb 2021 |
Scott Alexander was warned by people "in the know" that the NYT would publish something as negative as possible about him once it had an excuse.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Mixed |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
14 Feb 2021 |
In early 2020, Scott Alexander learned the New York Times wanted to write an article about him.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Mixed |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
14 Feb 2021 |
Scott Alexander wrote a 30,000-word condemnation of one of the right-wing figures named in the article on his blog a few years ago.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
14 Feb 2021 |
Scott Alexander met Peter Thiel once at a party, long before Trump was in the news, and exchanged about two sentences with him.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
14 Feb 2021 |
Scott Alexander has never personally been involved in the tech industry.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Mixed |
Bill Gates | Prediction |
Feb 2021 |
New COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines will soon begin to bend the pandemic curve substantially.
Bill Gates · Prediction · Feb 2021 |
Biosecurity |
| Resolved true |
Bill Gates | Factual |
Feb 2021 |
The Gates Foundation has worked with manufacturers and partners to deliver vaccines cheaply at large scale, including to 822 million children in low-income countries through Gavi.
Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true |
Bill Gates | Factual |
Feb 2021 |
The United States included $4 billion for Gavi in its latest COVID-19 relief package.
Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 |
Biosecurity |
| Mostly false |
Bill Gates | Factual |
Feb 2021 |
Stress and isolation during the pandemic have had far-reaching impacts on mental health.
Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 |
Biosecurity |
| Mostly true |
Bill Gates | Factual |
Feb 2021 |
One and a half billion children lost classroom time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and some may never return.
Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 |
Other |
| Unresolvable |
Bill Gates | Prediction |
Feb 2021 |
The coronavirus pandemic will be the defining event of the Gateses' generation, as World War II was for their parents' generation.
Bill Gates · Prediction · Feb 2021 |
Biosecurity |
| Mixed |
Bill Gates | Factual |
Feb 2021 |
Foundation partners have applied lessons from earlier foundation-backed vaccine work to developing COVID-19 vaccines.
Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 |
Biosecurity |
| Resolved true |
Bill Gates | Factual |
Feb 2021 |
COVID-19 was not the Gates Foundation's sole focus in 2020; it continued work across its other program areas.
Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true |
Bill Gates | Factual |
Feb 2021 |
The Gates Foundation's malaria team had to rethink bed net distribution because mass distribution events were no longer safe during the pandemic.
Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true |
Bill Gates | Factual |
Feb 2021 |
As of February 2021, the Gates Foundation had invested $1.75 billion in the fight against COVID-19.
Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true |
Elon Musk | Guidance |
27 Jan 2021 |
Tesla may track to growth of a fair bit above 50% in 2021, though it does not commit to it.
Elon Musk · Guidance · 27 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved false |
Elon Musk | Prediction |
27 Jan 2021 |
Tesla Semi will likely be the first vehicle to achieve full autonomy.
Elon Musk · Prediction · 27 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Elon Musk | Prediction |
27 Jan 2021 |
Tesla's next FSD computer (version 2) is expected to be about three times as powerful as version 1.
Elon Musk · Prediction · 27 Jan 2021 |
AI compute, hardware and data |
| Unresolvable |
Elon Musk | Promise |
27 Jan 2021 |
Tesla expects Giga Berlin and Giga Texas to start production in 2021.
Elon Musk · Promise · 27 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Elon Musk | Prediction |
27 Jan 2021 |
Tesla expects to become the market leader in solar and then go far beyond it.
Elon Musk · Prediction · 27 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Elon Musk | Guidance |
27 Jan 2021 |
Tesla believes it can maintain a growth rate above 50% per year for many years.
Elon Musk · Guidance · 27 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Elon Musk | Guidance |
27 Jan 2021 |
Tesla thinks it probably should be able to achieve 30% of targeted design cell capacity in 2022.
Elon Musk · Guidance · 27 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved false |
Elon Musk | Prediction |
27 Jan 2021 |
Musk said he was highly confident Tesla's cars would drive themselves with reliability in excess of a human in 2021.
Elon Musk · Prediction · 27 Jan 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable |
Elon Musk | Prediction |
27 Jan 2021 |
Musk said he was confident that "they", a group he described as having incredible attention to detail, would buy FSD as soon as it was working on time, which he said he hoped would be later in 2021.
Elon Musk · Prediction · 27 Jan 2021 |
Economics and markets |
| Resolved true |
Elon Musk | Factual |
27 Jan 2021 |
Liquid hydrogen has a density comparable to styrofoam.
Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 |
Technology |
| Mixed |
Elon Musk | Prediction |
27 Jan 2021 |
Long-range trucking with batteries is feasible.
Elon Musk · Prediction · 27 Jan 2021 |
Technology |
| Unresolvable |
Elon Musk | Promise |
27 Jan 2021 |
Tesla is installing 200 gigawatt-hours a year of battery cell capacity in 2022.
Elon Musk · Promise · 27 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only |
Elon Musk | Factual |
27 Jan 2021 |
Musk said that very few of Tesla's customers in China had selected the FSD option, which he thought was maybe as low as 1% or 2%, and that this was much lower than the rest of the world.
Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 |
Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable |
Elon Musk | Promise |
27 Jan 2021 |
Tesla expects Cybertruck volume production to begin in 2022.
Elon Musk · Promise · 27 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Delivered on time |
Elon Musk | Promise |
27 Jan 2021 |
Musk said Tesla was confident it would have excellent integration between Powerwall and Tesla Solar (retrofit and roof) before the end of 2021.
Elon Musk · Promise · 27 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true |
Elon Musk | Promise |
27 Jan 2021 |
Tesla will price the new Model S $10,000 higher than the old model.
Elon Musk · Promise · 27 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved false |
Elon Musk | Prediction |
27 Jan 2021 |
Safe Level 5 full self-driving can be achieved using only the current Full Self-Driving computer version 1.
Elon Musk · Prediction · 27 Jan 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable |
Elon Musk | Factual |
27 Jan 2021 |
Tesla achieved full-year 2020 free cash flow of nearly $2.8 billion after spending more than $3 billion on new factories and other expenditures.
Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Elon Musk | Prediction |
27 Jan 2021 |
Tesla thinks Dojo may be the best neural net training computer in the world, possibly by an order of magnitude.
Elon Musk · Prediction · 27 Jan 2021 |
AI compute, hardware and data |
| Resolved false |
Elon Musk | Guidance |
27 Jan 2021 |
Tesla targets 100 gigawatt-hours of Tesla-produced cells in 2022.
Elon Musk · Guidance · 27 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true |
Elon Musk | Factual |
27 Jan 2021 |
Musk described gathering surround video from eight cameras operating simultaneously with synchronized frame rates.
Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
21 Jan 2021 |
Scott Alexander quit his day job so his employer would not be affected by the fallout.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 21 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
21 Jan 2021 |
Trolls posted Scott Alexander's real name in many places after he tried to protect his anonymity.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 21 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
21 Jan 2021 |
Scott Alexander lost a five-digit sum in advertising and Patreon fees.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 21 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
21 Jan 2021 |
Scott Alexander deleted his blog, which had 1,557 posts.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 21 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
21 Jan 2021 |
While trying to restore his blog, Scott Alexander accidentally sent about three hundred emails to each of five thousand people.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 21 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Scott Alexander | Factual |
21 Jan 2021 |
After Scott Alexander deleted his blog, articles about him appeared in the New Yorker, Reason, and The Daily Beast.
Scott Alexander · Factual · 21 Jan 2021 |
Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable |
Jeremy Grantham | Prediction |
8 Jan 2021 |
Grantham believes this event will be recorded as one of the great bubbles in financial history, alongside the South Sea bubble, 1929 and 2000.
Jeremy Grantham · Prediction · 8 Jan 2021 |
Economics and markets |
| Mostly true |
Jeremy Grantham | Factual |
8 Jan 2021 |
Bonds are even more expensive by historical comparison than stocks.
Jeremy Grantham · Factual · 8 Jan 2021 |
Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable |
Jeremy Grantham | Factual |
8 Jan 2021 |
As of early January 2021, the US stock market P/E ratio is in the top few percent of its historical range while the economy is in the worst few percent.
Jeremy Grantham · Factual · 8 Jan 2021 |
Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable |
Sam Altman | Prediction |
2021 |
If the US does not take a radical step toward a fair, inclusive system, it will not be the leading country in the world for much longer.
Sam Altman · Prediction · 2021 |
AI policy and governance |
| Unresolvable |
Sam Altman | Prediction |
2021 |
By default, automation will concentrate wealth and power in a tiny number of hands.
Sam Altman · Prediction · 2021 |
AI, the economy and work |
| Unresolvable |
Yann LeCun | Prediction |
2021 |
Training systems on video prediction with self-supervised techniques will provide a path towards some level of physical common sense in machines.
Yann LeCun · Prediction · 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Resolved true |
Sam Altman | Factual |
2021 |
America has repeatedly found ways to challenge concentration of wealth and power.
Sam Altman · Factual · 2021 |
Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Unresolvable |
Sam Altman | Prediction |
2021 |
Altman said he thinks a model similar to the one used by companies can work for the US as well as it does for companies.
Sam Altman · Prediction · 2021 |
Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable |
Sam Altman | Factual |
2021 |
Countries that concentrate wealth in a small number of families do worse over the long term.
Sam Altman · Factual · 2021 |
Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Mostly true |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
2021 |
A cat has fewer than 1 billion neurons, while a dog has 2 billion.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 2021 |
Other |
| Unresolvable |
Sam Altman | Prediction |
2021 |
American Equity would create a society that Altman believes would work much better than today's.
Sam Altman · Prediction · 2021 |
Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Mostly true |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
2021 |
Since the 1990s, algorithms exist that learn oriented edge detectors fully unsupervised with the equivalent of a few minutes of real time.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable |
Yann LeCun | Prediction |
2021 |
A machine cannot be trained to be intelligent purely from text.
Yann LeCun · Prediction · 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
2021 |
The knowledge needed for house-cat intelligence fits in about 800 million neurons.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 2021 |
Other |
| Mostly true |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
2021 |
Self-supervised training of visual representations from video has not yet been successful.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable |
Sam Altman | Prediction |
2021 |
Automation will significantly change how people think about work.
Sam Altman · Prediction · 2021 |
AI, the economy and work |
| Unresolvable |
Sam Altman | Prediction |
2021 |
If everyone benefits more directly from economic growth, it will be easier to move faster toward a better world with automation.
Sam Altman · Prediction · 2021 |
AI, the economy and work |
| Resolved true |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
2021 |
The American financial payment system is much more lax about signature verification than Europe's.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 2021 |
Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable |
Sam Altman | Prediction |
2021 |
In a world where economic growth guarantees basic needs, absolute poverty in America would be eliminated.
Sam Altman · Prediction · 2021 |
Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Unresolvable |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
2021 |
The most intelligent AI systems have less common sense than a house cat.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable |
Sam Altman | Prediction |
2021 |
American Equity would cushion the transition from today's jobs to the jobs of tomorrow.
Sam Altman · Prediction · 2021 |
AI, the economy and work |
| Unresolvable |
Sam Altman | Prediction |
2021 |
He said he believes a new US social contract with a floor and no ceiling would lead to a huge increase in US prosperity and keep the US in the global lead.
Sam Altman · Prediction · 2021 |
AI, the economy and work |
| Mostly true |
Sam Altman | Factual |
2021 |
Countries have historically given land to citizens, such as through the US Homestead Acts, to distribute resources people needed to succeed.
Sam Altman · Factual · 2021 |
Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
2021 |
At that earlier time, datasets were so small that hand-engineered methods worked better than convolutional nets.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Mostly true |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
2021 |
In reinforcement learning the machine receives only a single scalar feedback, and only occasionally.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable |
Yann LeCun | Prediction |
2021 |
All of intelligence could possibly be solved by filling in blanks in language and similar self-supervised prediction.
Yann LeCun · Prediction · 2021 |
AI timelines and forecasting |
| Unresolvable |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
2021 |
AI is not anywhere close to reproducing the learning done by a cat brain of about 800 million neurons.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable |
Sam Altman | Prediction |
2021 |
Automation could create more abundance than people ever dreamed possible.
Sam Altman · Prediction · 2021 |
AI, the economy and work |
| Mostly true |
Sam Altman | Factual |
2021 |
The joint-stock company allowed many people to align on a common goal and accomplish things no individual could.
Sam Altman · Factual · 2021 |
Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable |
Sam Altman | Prediction |
2021 |
Eliminating poverty will increase productivity.
Sam Altman · Prediction · 2021 |
Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable |
Sam Altman | Prediction |
2021 |
American Equity would free Americans to work on what they really care about, improve social cohesion, and incentivize everyone to think about ways to grow the whole pie.
Sam Altman · Prediction · 2021 |
Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Unresolvable |
Yann LeCun | Factual |
2021 |
Most of the complicated components of intelligence already exist in cats, dogs and non-human primates.
Yann LeCun · Factual · 2021 |
Science and research methods |
| Unresolvable |
Yann LeCun | Prediction |
2021 |
Active learning and reinforcement learning will become obsolete, useless or easy once self-supervised representation learning or predictive world models are figured out.
Yann LeCun · Prediction · 2021 |
AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable |
Sam Altman | Prediction |
2021 |
Without policies addressing the cost of living crisis, any redistribution will be far less effective than it otherwise could be.
Sam Altman · Prediction · 2021 |
Economics and markets |