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| Not researched | Jensen Huang | Factual | 26 Sep 2025 | Jensen Huang tells Nvidia's investors that Nvidia's guidance includes no China revenue. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable | Jensen Huang | Prediction | 26 Sep 2025 | Moving hyperscalers' traditional computing to AI represents hundreds of billions of dollars of spending. Jensen Huang · Prediction · 26 Sep 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Mostly true | Jensen Huang | Factual | 26 Sep 2025 | TikTok cannot operate without AI. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Not yet due | Jensen Huang | Prediction | 26 Sep 2025 | Over the next several decades the economy will grow, lots of new jobs will be created, every job will be changed and some jobs will be lost. Jensen Huang · Prediction · 26 Sep 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Unresolvable | Jensen Huang | Prediction | 26 Sep 2025 | AI in the cloud will also be embodied, much of it in people's cars and personal robots, everywhere with them. Jensen Huang · Prediction · 26 Sep 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2025 | Those who know he is bullshitting but have left the room. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Jensen Huang | Prediction | 26 Sep 2025 | General purpose computing is over and the future is accelerated computing and AI computing. Jensen Huang · Prediction · 26 Sep 2025 | AI compute, hardware and data |
| Unresolvable | Jensen Huang | Prediction | 26 Sep 2025 | Huang said that the quantity under discussion is about to go up by a billion times; the quote and its surroundings do not name that quantity. Jensen Huang · Prediction · 26 Sep 2025 | AI compute, hardware and data |
| Not researched | Jensen Huang | Factual | 26 Sep 2025 | Nvidia is giving AI co-agents to every single person in the company. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2025 | Going to Café de Flore for food (let alone onion soup) is the equivalent of going to Mar-a-Lago to discuss Kant, Algazel, & other topics of… Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 25 Sep 2025 | The book listing on Amazon was updated with a total of 50 added pages. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 25 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2025 | Palestinian Christians have been their biggest victims. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2025 | He will also take Tylenol next accident. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2025 | |
| Mixed | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 25 Sep 2025 | Taleb's point was that bike lanes improve well-being and happiness without generating economic growth. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 25 Sep 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | So the poor must be imported — reluctantly. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | If they try to enforce the letter of the law, it would be too much like a police state. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Steven Pinker | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | Harvard does not admit students on meritocratic grounds. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | There are other things where it’s not inexorable, it’s not monotonic, but it certainly seems to have a direction. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Own records only | Steven Pinker | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | Pinker gives many more A grades than he used to, to avoid an empty lecture hall. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | For the past 9m every time I've seen Trump or any of his myrmidons making an economics statement has prompted me to buy gold-- irresistibly. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Again, since it depends on nothing but common expectations, it can unravel as when you have a big public demonstration where people see… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Not to mention that in all of the songs, there are some lyrics that are rather misogynistic by today’s contemporary standards, but somehow… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I think a lot of the shaming mobs, a lot of the trolling, a lot of the degradation of discourse in social media comes because of that… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Steven Pinker | Prediction | 24 Sep 2025 | Pinker said he thinks a world war is less likely today than it was 100 years ago. Steven Pinker · Prediction · 24 Sep 2025 | Other global risks |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Unreliable & unwise. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Steven Pinker | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | Some marine species, such as broadcast spawners, coordinate the release of gametes on the full moon or a fixed number of days after it. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Mostly true | Steven Pinker | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | Human sacrifice, once practised by all ancient civilizations, no longer exists today. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Not researched | Steven Pinker | Citation | 24 Sep 2025 | A corollary of Aumann's agreement theorem, possibly pointed out by Geanakoplos, is that rational agents should not engage in speculative trade. Steven Pinker · Citation · 24 Sep 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I suggest that eye contact is an instant common knowledge generator. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Mixed | Steven Pinker | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | More countries are democratic than not, though fewer than 20 years ago. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | It’s not particularly intuitive, in the same way that markets are not particularly intuitive, in the same way that science is not… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | A Schelling point is a choice that people make to coordinate that has no intrinsic value other than the fact that everyone else knows that… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Steven Pinker | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | Large language models have features, such as hidden layers, that implicitly build in some insights of linguistics. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | You can’t reasonably expect to make a greater profit by speculating on private information. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I tend to think that our assessment of a work of art isn’t completely extricable from our knowledge of its provenance Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | No government can have snipers on every rooftop and telescreens in every room surveilling you 24/7 with the Stasi ready to pounce on you if… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | When it comes to just preferences, I don’t think that priors apply or are even meaningful. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | There needn’t be any predictability from outsiders other than it’s likely to pop into the mind of the people involved. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Steven Pinker | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | The war in Ukraine is not as bad as World War I. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | Other global risks |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | If there wasn’t some suspicion, the weapons would be useless because they wouldn’t be a deterrent. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | there can be no element of just raw subjective preference. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Everyone knows that everyone knows that money has value. That’s what gives it value, as long as they do. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I guess I’ll say not gone forever, but certainly in retreat. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I suggest that human relationships like friendship, like authority, like romance, like transaction partners are all coordination games that… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Those assumptions are seldom satisfied, but if they are satisfied, then yes. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | is harder at the top of the S-curve. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | In cases where there’s doubt as to whether this signal has been received or how it’s interpreted, or where there’s no way in which you can… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I’m one of those freaks who just does not enjoy the taste of chocolate. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | That’s probably what happens most of the time. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Steven Pinker | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | Slavery exists only clandestinely today; no country has legal slavery anymore. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | There has never been a society that welcomed immigration for its own sake. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | There’s no limit to the number of things that we can coordinate creatively in evolutionarily novel ways by setting up new conventions that… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Oh, one possibility is to revisit all the indicators of progress. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | We couldn’t think through an infinite number of “I know that he knows” thoughts, and our mind starts to spin when we do three or four. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Steven Pinker | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | Steven Pinker is a psychologist, not an economist, mathematician or game theorist. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | We end up in the strange situation of xenophobic people importing labor for their own purposes while voting against immigration — a sort of… Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Liberal enlightenment is at a disadvantage in that regard, in that it oughtn’t to rely on charismatic thought leaders. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Probably worse. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I think liberal enlightenment is a great idea. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | This is a case where the epistemic peers don’t share priors. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Steven Pinker | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | Asked whether Taiwan is a sovereign state, Pinker said the official policy of the United States, and as far as he knows of pretty much every other country, is that Taiwan as a sovereign state does not exist. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | AI policy and governance |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | When it comes to the points that people converge on because the other one knows that they will converge on it, there doesn’t have to be any… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Of course, it’s dependent on the assumptions that go into the theorem. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | It isn’t even gone. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | It’s not exactly a noble lie, but it’s a common pretense. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I think “I’ve Just Seen a Face.” Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I think there’s a lot of interplay in human life between this recursive mentalizing, that is, thinking about other people thinking about… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Some degree of empathy for the average person, so that we don’t want to cut the beating heart out of someone’s chest, on average. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Some of us who do science can help interpreting it. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Paradoxically, you need some degree of determinism for the idea of holding people responsible for their choices to have any effect. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | A Schelling point, I think it’s more like common salience. It’s closely related. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | We know other people will accept it and give us something of value. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Often, once they make their move, they generate the common knowledge that allows everyone to coordinate, but there has to be some kind of… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | It would tank. It would be almost nonexistent just because all of our economy depends on coordination, on people doing things that are in… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Common knowledge, in the technical sense, does involve this infinite number of arbitrarily embedded beliefs about beliefs about beliefs. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I would say Highway 61. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Mixed | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | Entities in biology and economics grow convexly then slow as they saturate; growth may be unbounded but remains sub-logarithmic. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Of course, they don’t have common knowledge in knowing that the other will know. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Sometimes, when we want not to change the relationship in force, we actually take steps to avoid common knowledge, as in innuendos and… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Mixed | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | If ancient populations such as hunter-gatherers and Inuit had a high incidence of cardiovascular disease, the unavoidable conclusion is that cardiovascular problems are at least half genetic. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I think a somewhat different case, other than an utter lie, would be a genteel, benign hypocrisy, where you have a common pretense. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Liberal democracy is on its heels. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I think there’s a natural backsliding. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Steven Pinker | Prediction | 24 Sep 2025 | Legal, open slavery will probably not come back. Steven Pinker · Prediction · 24 Sep 2025 | Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Prediction | 24 Sep 2025 | A sharp reduction in immigrant labor supply to the U.S. and Europe would trigger hyperinflation due to nonlinear squeeze effects. Nassim Taleb · Prediction · 24 Sep 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I think the most basic answer is that liberal enlightenment is not particularly intuitive. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Prediction | 24 Sep 2025 | Soon most U.S. government expenditure will go to servicing debt, and the U.S. lacks political mechanisms to correct this. Nassim Taleb · Prediction · 24 Sep 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Of course, it’s a question of where you draw the line so that the law doesn’t forfeit all of its authority. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Any method that is optimized for finding the truth has just that built-in advantage. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | children, being naive and innocent about certain conventions and norms that govern adult life, often do blurt out truths; they don’t have… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Yes. I guess I do. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Steven Pinker | Prediction | 24 Sep 2025 | Pinker said he does not think ritual human sacrifice is coming back. Steven Pinker · Prediction · 24 Sep 2025 | Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I think we do have such thinkers. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Own records only | Steven Pinker | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | According to Pinker, students in his course are not performing as well as students used to on an assessment that he describes as constant from year to year. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Mostly true | Steven Pinker | Factual | 24 Sep 2025 | There are not more slaves in the world today than in the past as a proportion of the world's population. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 | Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | A combination of we’ve got enough knowledge about cause and effect to know that throwing a virgin into the volcano will not, in fact, bring… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Now, they aren’t guaranteed to succeed because there is brute force and infirmities in human psychology and cognition, and mob effects and… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Instead, common knowledge can be generated by something that is self-evident, that is conspicuous, that’s salient, that you can witness at… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | Many are discovering,” he said, “that lifestyle improvements, such as bicycling paths and pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly cities, may not… Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 |
“I think a lot of the shaming mobs, a lot of the trolling, a lot of the degradation of discourse in social media comes because of that anonymity.”
Steven Pinker 24 September 2025 Steven Pinker on Coordination, Common Knowledge, and the Retreat of Liberal Enlightenment (Conversations with Tyler)
I think a lot of the shaming mobs, a lot of the trolling, a lot of the degradation of discourse in social media comes because of that…
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