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Verdict	Person	Kind	Said	Claim	Topic
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	Charlie and I are extraordinarily lucky. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	I knew then that Jack was going to be my kind of manager. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	This viewpoint is too mechanomorphic to be considered as an explanation of priming in humans. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	But I don’t think I could do the management job Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	This is a major expense in programmer eﬀort, but I would argue that it is a necessary expense for the creation of rich concepts with… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	My chosen entry point into deliberation is words Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	Knowledge goals (discussed in later sections) are not arbitrary; they derive from real-world goals or higher-level knowledge goals. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not researched	Warren Buffett	Factual	2007	The cumulative pre-tax loss from the derivative operation described in the quote totals $409 million, of which only $5 million occurred in 2006. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2007	Economics and markets
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	America’s founders enjoyed a freedom of action far surpassing that of America’s subsequent politicians. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	In postulating multiple levels of organization, I am not positing that the behaviors of all higher layers emerge automatically from the… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not researched	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Factual	2007	Yudkowsky stated that, within the account of visualization as a multistage flow from high-level to low-level feature controllers, the final mental imagery is introspectively visible but the process that creates it is mostly opaque. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 2007	Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	Where concepts are building blocks, thoughts are immediate. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	there is no guarantee that the political itself will survive. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	This cannot be done by painting each individual pixel the same shade of red Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not yet due	Warren Buffett	Prediction	2007	Americans will live better ten or twenty years after 2007 than they do today, despite the unwise course of U.S. borrowing. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 2007	Economics and markets
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	I try to keep it both simple and fair. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	The concept for “red,” described earlier, is actually a fuzzy percept for degrees of redness. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Unresolvable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Prediction	2007	Yudkowsky conjectured that matching imagery against large concept sets will be one of the most computationally intensive subprocesses in AI, perhaps the most expensive subprocess. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · 2007	AI capabilities
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	The model of deliberation presented in this chapter requires five distinct layers of organization, each layer built on top of the… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	Code, when abused, is an excellent tool for creating long-term problems in the guise of short-term solutions. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	Charlie and I believe our four criteria are essential if directors are to do their job Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	The non-Western world had not yet seen the Peace of Westphalia. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	The presence of an immediate, local test of utility means that observed failures and successes can contribute unambiguously to forming a… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	Concepts and thoughts should not break as the result of small changes. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	If the AI takes a relatively fixed amount of time to mentally process each object, then single-feature clustering on the subjectively… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	Evolution conserves computing power by complicating the algorithm. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	The sensory appearance of a microtask would vary depending on the modality. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not researched	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Factual	2007	Humans can introspectively perceive only the highest levels of organization of the mind. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 2007	Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	direct imitation of human modalities would not be appropriate. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	Appropriate prices don’t guarantee profits in any given year, but inappropriate prices most certainly guarantee eventual losses. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	Schmitt would not counsel reasoned half-measures. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	how do we know that the property was acquired justly in the first place? Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	These are first steps toward AI, but not the only first steps, and certainly not the last steps. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not researched	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Factual	2007	Sandberg's communication-delay quantity S is much greater than 1 for clustered computing systems. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 2007	AI compute, hardware and data
Not researched	Warren Buffett	Factual	2007	CORT's earnings improved significantly in 2006, and XTRA's earnings stayed at the high level reached in 2005. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2007	Economics and markets
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	we have long had jobs that we love, in Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	The incredibly drastic solutions favored by Schmitt in his dark musings have become impossible after 1945, in a world of nuclear weapons… Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	If there is something prophetic about Girard's announcement of the founding murder, then Strauss might note that his situation also… Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	Introspective concepts can describe beliefs and thoughts and even deliberation Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	one must choose one’s enemies well, for one will soon be just like them. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Unresolvable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Factual	2007	Yudkowsky estimated that the whole process of forming the mental image in his example took less than one second. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 2007	Philosophy, ethics and society
Not researched	Warren Buffett	Factual	2007	Buffett personally manages Berkshire's 62 outstanding derivative contracts, which are free of counterparty credit risk. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2007	Economics and markets
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	If I had to pick one single mistake that has been the most debilitating in AI, it would be implementing a process too close to the token… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Mixed	Peter Thiel	Factual	2007	In Girard's view, the Judeo-Western revelation may be slow because humans do not wish to hear its message, but it is not reversible. Peter Thiel · Factual · 2007	Philosophy, ethics and society
Not researched	Warren Buffett	Factual	2007	Lou Simpson has an outstanding long-term record managing GEICO's equity portfolio. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2007	Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Prediction	2007	Cautiously considering what a more foresightful and less accretive design for intelligence might look like, Yudkowsky suggested that in an AI the center of gravity of intelligence, the process humans observe through their internal narrative, would probably become the central supersystem of the mind, to an even greater degree than in humans. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · 2007	AI capabilities
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	Ex ante, wealth transfers made a certain amount of sense in the late 1940s. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	Walter and Edwin never came within a mile of inside information. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	I am not sure whether analogous tests have been performed for the lateral geniculate nucleus, but the feedback connections are there. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	Sometimes these delusions are self-serving. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not researched	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Citation	2007	Maloney (1986) found that natural surfaces have spectral reflectance distributions varying along roughly five to seven dimensions. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Citation · 2007	Science and research methods
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	The fundamental challenge is not focusing on the numerical facet but rather perceiving a “numerical facet” in the first place. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	a nation whose conception owed so much to Locke that one exaggerates only slightly to describe him as its definitive founder. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	Observing that the human body is composed of molecules, proteins, cells, tissues, and organs is not a complete design for a human body, but… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	Concept-concept interactions are more readily accessible to introspection and to experimental techniques, and are relatively well-known in… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	By contrast, on the Western side (if it can even be called a side), there is great confusion over what the fighting is for, and why there… Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	Overnight, the fundamentalist civil rights mania of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which spoke in the language of inviolable… Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	Knowing that the task is large does not enable us to meet the challenge just by making our designs larger or more complicated Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	The only concept that is pure information-loss is a concept that lies entirely on the surface of a modality; a concept whose satisfaction… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not researched	Warren Buffett	Factual	2007	GEICO's productivity grew 47% between yearend 2003 and yearend 2006 (policies up 42%, employees down 3.5%). Warren Buffett · Factual · 2007	Their own work or organisation
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	The most important reason for decomposability is that concepts with organized internal structures are more mutable. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	AI development is exploratory, parallelized, and large. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	Modalities are wired; concepts are learned; thoughts are invented. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	And so, in determining the correct mixture of violence and peace, the Christian statesman or stateswoman would be wise, in every close… Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not researched	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Factual	2007	The author's DGI theory requires sensory modalities with feature controllers that are inverse complements of feature detectors. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 2007	Science and research methods
Not researched	Warren Buffett	Factual	2007	Berkshire's annual meeting draws many people from around the globe every year. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2007	Their own work or organisation
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	As recent events have illustrated vividly, the real problem with the theory goes much deeper. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	There can be no real accommodation with the Enlightenment, since so many of its easy bromides have become deadly falsehoods in our time. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	If the programmer hardwires a subitizer that outputs numerons (unique number tags) as detected features, the AI may be able to chunk “five”… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	The specific example of imposing “triangular” on “light bulb” is a nontrivial feat of mind Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not researched	Warren Buffett	Factual	2007	In 2006 Berkshire agreed to enter into a huge retroactive reinsurance contract with Equitas. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2007	Their own work or organisation
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	If a CEO bats .300, he gets paid for being a .300 hitter Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	No single criterion is effective in doing these jobs Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	There can be no return to the archaic world or even to the robust conception of the political envisioned by Carl Schmitt. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	The saint knew that the opposite had been true of Socrates, who left us no example of weeping, but left us example of laughter. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	We are lucky to have her: She scores very high on our four criteria Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	For the modern world, the death of God was followed by the disappearance of the question of human nature. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	For Strauss as for Nietzsche, the truth of mimesis and of the founding murder is so shocking that most people, in all times and places… Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	It may be a valid analytical method but it probably belongs on the deliberation level, not the modality level. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	But the days of lush profits from our newspaper are over. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	The complexity of the thought level of organization arises from the cyclic interaction of thoughts and mental imagery. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Unresolvable	Peter Thiel	Factual	2007	For every jihadist killed after September 11, about ten more arose to seek martyrdom. Peter Thiel · Factual · 2007	Other global risks
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	There are no short cuts in Strauss. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Unresolvable	Warren Buffett	Prediction	2007	As U.S. trade problems worsen, the dollar is highly likely to weaken over time. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 2007	Economics and markets
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	Mental imagery is the active canvas on which deliberative thought is painted—“active canvas” implying a dynamic process and not just a… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	A general intelligence with a visual modality has no need to explicitly store an infinite number of such statements in a theorem-proving… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	The answer is that derivatives, just like stocks and bonds, are sometimes wildly mispriced. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	The price of abandoning oneself to such an artificial representation is always too high, because the decisions that are avoided are always… Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	The fact that these things are hidden does not mean that they do not exist or that they are unknowable. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	Raw code has only a single level of organization, and changing a random instruction on this level usually simply breaks the overall… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not researched	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Factual	2007	The three color channels of the human visual system are exactly the number needed to maintain color constancy under natural lighting conditions. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 2007	Science and research methods
Unresolvable	Peter Thiel	Prediction	2007	The modern age will not be permanent and will ultimately give way to something very different. Peter Thiel · Prediction · 2007	Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	The most direct method for comprehending a world in which not all human beings are homo economicus would therefore appear to involve a… Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Warren Buffett	Not checkable	2007	We will make many more. Warren Buffett · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	Hence, on the whole, sensory modalities are characterized by the smooth flow of information through ascending layers of feature detectors. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Peter Thiel	Not checkable	2007	But we now live in a world where the cat is out of the bag, at least to the extent that we know that the scapegoat really is not as guilty… Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 2007
Mostly true	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Factual	2007	The process of visualizing a triangular light bulb is not really open to human introspection. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 2007	Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	Coding the wrong thing successfully can mess up an AI project worse than any number of programming failures. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not checkable	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Not checkable	2007	These building blocks are learned complexity, rather than innate complexity; they are abstracted from experience. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · 2007
Not researched	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Factual	2007	Almost all of the internal complexity of concepts is hidden from human introspection. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 2007	Philosophy, ethics and society

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“Hence, on the whole, sensory modalities are characterized by the smooth flow of information through ascending layers of feature detectors.”

Eliezer Yudkowsky 2007 Levels of Organization in General Intelligence (MIRI)

Hence, on the whole, sensory modalities are characterized by the smooth flow of information through ascending layers of feature detectors.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Hence, on the whole, sensory modalities are characterized by the smooth flow of information through ascending layers of feature detectors.” (said 2007). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_71c6cb4fc2f1, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_71c6cb4fc2f1

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