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2,653 claims by 33 public figures and organisations, checked against the public record. Each has its quote, source, verdict and evidence. Read them without a key; browse by person.

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Unresolvable Bill Ackman Promise 1 Aug 2022 Bill Ackman will appear on CNBC at 8:20am on 2 August 2022 to discuss what he called Visa's continued facilitation of child trafficking on PornHub and affiliated sites. Bill Ackman · Promise · 1 Aug 2022 Their own work or organisation
Mixed Bill Ackman Factual 31 Jul 2022 The Pershing Square Foundation is not involved in this case but has supported organizations working to stop human trafficking and image-based abuse. Bill Ackman · Factual · 31 Jul 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Bill Ackman Factual 30 Jul 2022 Bill Ackman and his firm have no economic interest, long or short, in Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Amex or any other payments company, processing company, bank or financial institution. Bill Ackman · Factual · 30 Jul 2022 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Bill Ackman Factual 29 Jul 2022 Bond and stock markets rallied substantially after Powell said on Wednesday that Fed rates were at neutral (2.25–2.5%). Bill Ackman · Factual · 29 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Bill Ackman Factual 29 Jul 2022 The Big Four accounting firms are not directly exposed to gas or food inflation. Bill Ackman · Factual · 29 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Bill Ackman Factual 27 Jul 2022 Since the close on 14 June 2022, 2-year, 10-year and 30-year Treasury rates were down 36, 70 and 41 basis points respectively as of 27 July 2022. Bill Ackman · Factual · 27 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 22 Jul 2022 A new trailer for The Rings of Power was released at Comic-Con on 2022-07-22. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 22 Jul 2022 Other
Mostly true Bill Ackman Factual 14 Jul 2022 Ackman said that in response to the June 2022 CPI print, short-term fed funds futures moved upward, implying a peak fed funds rate of 3.68% by December 2022, then cuts to 2.9% by January 2024. Bill Ackman · Factual · 14 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 14 Jul 2022 The first full-length trailer for The Rings of Power was released by 2022-07-14. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 14 Jul 2022 Other
Resolved true Bill Ackman Factual 5 Jul 2022 There had been 309 mass shootings in the US year-to-date as of 5 July 2022, about 12 per week. Bill Ackman · Factual · 5 Jul 2022 Other
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 The US will have genuine goods shortages because of supply chain problems. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Not yet due Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 By the end of the 2020s, cryptocurrency will be what all politics is about, as social media was in the 2010s. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 Many non-white people in the US will shift to supporting Bitcoin because of inflation. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Philosophy, ethics and society
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Factual 4 Jul 2022 Slow steaming, which he called a self-inflicted wound caused by ESG, means every container ship in the world now has to slow down. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 Opt-in online networks will be able to be materialized as communities in the physical world. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Philosophy, ethics and society
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 A coup attempt against the Chinese leadership would not succeed. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Other
Not yet due Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 In five or ten years people will care a great deal where their money is held and whether it can be frozen. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Own records only Balaji Srinivasan Factual 4 Jul 2022 Balaji Srinivasan holds no Snap (Snapchat) stock. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 4 Jul 2022 Their own work or organisation
Not yet due Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 By the end of the 2020s, governments will not be able to fund themselves without cryptocurrency. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 Amendments barring seizure of Bitcoin will probably be ratified in a fair number of US states. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Factual 4 Jul 2022 Twitter has a global leaderboard, which is inherently zero-sum. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 4 Jul 2022 Technology
Mostly true Balaji Srinivasan Factual 4 Jul 2022 In the late 1990s, and probably the early 2000s, people (including Bill Gates) talked about a 'convergence device'. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 4 Jul 2022 Technology
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 Balaji Srinivasan said he does not believe the things he was describing are going to go away, calling this his personal belief and not financial advice. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 The majority of English speakers on the internet are or soon will be in India. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 The Chinese state would respond to a coup attempt with AI-enabled surveillance to root out civil society groups that collaborated. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 AI policy and governance
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 Srinivasan said he thinks that in the US it will play out as something like maximalists versus wokes. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Philosophy, ethics and society
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 The United States is heading toward anarchy. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Philosophy, ethics and society
Mostly true Balaji Srinivasan Factual 4 Jul 2022 Inflation affects African Americans, Latinos, Asians and whites equally. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 Freeze and seizure orders will be issued to centralized crypto exchanges. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 If the US has genuine serious inflation or hyperinflation, American society will come apart. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Factual 4 Jul 2022 A slight tonal shift in a prompt word produces a totally different looking DALL-E 2 image. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 4 Jul 2022 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 It is possible, though not certain, that some kind of coup will be attempted against Xi Jinping or the Chinese Communist Party. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Other
Resolved true Bill Ackman Factual 4 Jul 2022 Interest rates declined dramatically over the two weeks before 4 July 2022. Bill Ackman · Factual · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 An inflation-tracking app combining crypto tools will become the new CoinMarketCap, checked daily by users. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 Srinivasan said he thinks the US will see very serious inflation because the Federal Reserve will probably be forced to cut rates to the floor, possibly before the 2024 election, and print money. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 The political spectrum will rotate so that red-blue becomes orange versus green. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Philosophy, ethics and society
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 Bitcoin will probably become the Schelling point (focal asset) for assets that cannot be seized. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Factual 4 Jul 2022 To his knowledge, the Tim Ferriss rankings are not juiced or editorialized. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 4 Jul 2022 Other
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Factual 4 Jul 2022 China's boom was caused by Deng Xiaoping allowing farmers to keep some of their grain, so that their effort led to results. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 Mobile phones will come to be seen as an intermediate stage, as people want the use of their hands and to be outside rather than stuck inside. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Technology
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 There will be serious inflation and a surge in Bitcoin's price, followed by the US government trying to freeze or seize Bitcoin with something similar to Executive Order 6102. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Factual 4 Jul 2022 In the 2000s, online services generally wanted everybody to sign up. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 4 Jul 2022 Technology
Resolved true Balaji Srinivasan Factual 4 Jul 2022 Sergey Brin remarked many years ago that staring down at a phone is emasculating. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 4 Jul 2022 Technology
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 4 Jul 2022 Censorship will increase dramatically if inflation takes hold. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 4 Jul 2022 Philosophy, ethics and society
Resolved true Nate Silver Prediction 30 Jun 2022 Republicans are heavy favorites to win the House in the 2022 midterms, and the Senate is a toss-up. Nate Silver · Prediction · 30 Jun 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Resolved true Jim Cramer Factual 30 Jun 2022 The first half of 2022 was the worst first half for the stock market since 1970. Jim Cramer · Factual · 30 Jun 2022 Economics and markets
Resolved true Nate Silver Prediction 30 Jun 2022 If Republicans take control of the House in 2023, they are pretty likely to hold COVID panels or investigations. Nate Silver · Prediction · 30 Jun 2022 AI policy and governance
Delivered on time Nate Silver Promise 29 Jun 2022 Nate Silver's midterms forecast model will be published soon. Nate Silver · Promise · 29 Jun 2022 Their own work or organisation
Resolved true Jim Cramer Factual 28 Jun 2022 On the 2022-06-28 Mad Money episode, Jim Cramer interviews Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services. Jim Cramer · Factual · 28 Jun 2022 Their own work or organisation
Resolved true Nate Silver Factual 24 Jun 2022 Public trust in the US Supreme Court is way down in polls as of June 2022. Nate Silver · Factual · 24 Jun 2022 AI policy and governance
Unresolvable Jim Cramer Prediction 23 Jun 2022 People will one day all spend hundreds of dollars in the Metaverse. Jim Cramer · Prediction · 23 Jun 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Unresolvable Jim Cramer Prediction 23 Jun 2022 The Metaverse operating system will become as important as Apple, making privacy concerns moot. Jim Cramer · Prediction · 23 Jun 2022 Technology
Unresolvable Nate Silver Prediction 12 Jun 2022 Biden will likely get a gun control bill passed but not a voting rights bill. Nate Silver · Prediction · 12 Jun 2022 AI policy and governance
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 10 Jun 2022 Humans do not explicitly pursue inclusive genetic fitness, although natural selection optimized on that simple loss function. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 10 Jun 2022 AI safety and alignment
Unresolvable Eliezer Yudkowsky Prediction 10 Jun 2022 Losing a conflict with a high-powered cognitive system looks at least as deadly as everyone on Earth suddenly dying within the same second. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · 10 Jun 2022 AI safety and alignment
Unresolvable Eliezer Yudkowsky Prediction 10 Jun 2022 Using current alignment techniques, humanity is not on course to get AGI that avoids killing everyone with probability roughly 1. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · 10 Jun 2022 AI safety and alignment
Unresolvable Eliezer Yudkowsky Prediction 10 Jun 2022 Given insufficient foresight by the operators, Yudkowsky expects many of those alignment problems to appear at about the same time after a sharp AI capability gain. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · 10 Jun 2022 AI safety and alignment
Unresolvable Eliezer Yudkowsky Prediction 10 Jun 2022 Future AGI will not be upper-bounded by human ability or human learning speed. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · 10 Jun 2022 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Eliezer Yudkowsky Prediction 10 Jun 2022 A sufficiently capable cognitive system with any medium-bandwidth channel of causal influence could easily bootstrap to overpowering capabilities independent of human infrastructure. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · 10 Jun 2022 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 10 Jun 2022 When natural selection produced general intelligence in humans, alignment with the outer optimization loop broke after the intelligence became general, relatively late in its accumulation of capability and knowledge. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 10 Jun 2022 AI safety and alignment
Resolved true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 10 Jun 2022 MIRI tried and failed to find a coherent formula for an agent that would let itself be shut down without actively trying to get shut down. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 10 Jun 2022 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Eliezer Yudkowsky Prediction 10 Jun 2022 Yudkowsky expects that training by gradient descent against that behavior in a toy domain would produce not-particularly-coherent local patches to thought processes, which would break with near-certainty inside a superintelligence generalizing far outside its training distribution. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · 10 Jun 2022 AI safety and alignment
Resolved true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 10 Jun 2022 There is no known way to use loss functions, sensory inputs or reward inputs to make a cognitive system's optimization point at particular latent things in the environment. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 10 Jun 2022 AI safety and alignment
Unresolvable Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 10 Jun 2022 AlphaZero surpassed all accumulated human knowledge about Go after about a day of self-play, without human playbooks or sample games. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 10 Jun 2022 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Eliezer Yudkowsky Prediction 10 Jun 2022 Programmers' and operators' methodologies may break when they move from not-fully-dangerous to dangerous AI domains, which are out-of-distribution for them. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · 10 Jun 2022 AI safety and alignment
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 10 Jun 2022 Under the current optimization paradigm there is no general method known to get particular inner properties into an AI system or verify they are present. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 10 Jun 2022 AI safety and alignment
Unresolvable Eliezer Yudkowsky Prediction 10 Jun 2022 Fast AI capability gains seem likely and may break many previous alignment-required invariants simultaneously. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · 10 Jun 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 10 Jun 2022 Human raters make systematic, regular, compactly describable and predictable errors. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 10 Jun 2022 AI safety and alignment
Unresolvable Eliezer Yudkowsky Prediction 10 Jun 2022 Systems much smarter than humans would be able to learn from less evidence than humans require. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · 10 Jun 2022 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Eliezer Yudkowsky Prediction 10 Jun 2022 Even if an AGI ends up perfectly inner-aligned on a sensory reward signal, an AGI strongly optimizing on that signal "will kill you", because the sensory reward signal was not a ground truth about alignment as seen by the operators. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · 10 Jun 2022 AI safety and alignment
Unresolvable Eliezer Yudkowsky Prediction 10 Jun 2022 Many anti-corrigible lines of reasoning may first appear only at high levels of AI intelligence. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · 10 Jun 2022 AI safety and alignment
Resolved true Nate Silver Prediction 9 Jun 2022 Democrats could hold the Senate in the 2022 midterms if GOP candidates are subpar in a couple of key states or Democrats win the closest races. Nate Silver · Prediction · 9 Jun 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Resolved true Nate Silver Prediction 9 Jun 2022 Democrats holding the House in the 2022 midterms would require an unlikely change in the national environment. Nate Silver · Prediction · 9 Jun 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Mixed Nate Silver Factual 6 Jun 2022 Senator Susan Collins voted against Trump's position about one-third of the time, including voting to impeach him, and has voted with Biden about one-third of the time. Nate Silver · Factual · 6 Jun 2022 AI policy and governance
Mixed Nate Silver Factual 27 May 2022 Forgiving all student loan debt is quite unpopular with the public in polls. Nate Silver · Factual · 27 May 2022 Economics and markets
Research failed Nate Silver Factual 27 May 2022 Forgiving some student loan debt is reasonably popular. Nate Silver · Factual · 27 May 2022 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 Digital super intelligence will be within humans rather than separate from them. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 Philosophy, ethics and society
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 People will hear early claims that computers have passed the Turing test and will not pay attention to them. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 AI capabilities
Not yet due Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 Beyond the point reached around 2032, a timing he said depends on how diligent a person is, people will get back more than a year of longevity from scientific progress for each year lived. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 Biosecurity
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 Individual people will be able to do more than today because they will have many more skills through AI. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 AI, the economy and work
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Factual 26 May 2022 Currently 95% of Nobel Prizes in medicine go to people with MDs. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · 26 May 2022 Science and research methods
Not yet due Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 It will probably take about four or five years before AI passing the Turing test becomes obvious and no longer a question. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 Designing proteins that flag and destroy cancer cells (e.g. with AlphaProteo) would amount to a cure for cancer. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 Science and research methods
Not yet due Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 Kurzweil said he thinks molecular assemblers, which would let people build anything they want anywhere, will arrive more like the 2040s. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 Technology
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 Humans will not use actual brain matter to expand their brains, but computer-based intelligence. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 Philosophy, ethics and society
Mostly true Ray Kurzweil Factual 26 May 2022 The prizes received by Geoffrey Hinton and by Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were very much for AI. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · 26 May 2022 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 Ultimately humans will be able to create new types of bodies and won't be limited to one. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 Philosophy, ethics and society
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Factual 26 May 2022 Current AI systems are not yet sentient, but are moving in that direction. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · 26 May 2022 Philosophy, ethics and society
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Factual 26 May 2022 Kurzweil presented a similar device about 15 years ago. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · 26 May 2022 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 Kurzweil said he believes that if people can hold on for five, maybe ten years, "we can replace all of these problems" that make them die sooner than they want. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 Biosecurity
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 The rate of gain in longevity from medical progress will accelerate. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 Biosecurity
Not yet due Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 Kurzweil says that saying "by the end of the decade" is conservative and that it could happen faster; the material does not state what the estimate refers to. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 People will have access inside their own minds to all the creations of every living person who has demonstrated anything. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 Philosophy, ethics and society
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 New types of jobs will emerge that cannot be imagined today. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 AI, the economy and work
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 It will become very hard to imagine how a person could die, with brain and heart backups. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 Biosecurity
Not yet due Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 Kurzweil said he thinks people will be given money so they can manage while they reconsider what kind of work they will be able to do. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 AI, the economy and work
Own records only Ray Kurzweil Factual 26 May 2022 Of people Kurzweil asked about 15 years ago, about 80% said they would not carry phones, yet that group carries phones today. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · 26 May 2022 Technology
Unresolvable Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 Simulated-biology testing of medications against cancer will be millions of times faster than past methods. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 Science and research methods
Not yet due Ray Kurzweil Prediction 26 May 2022 AI will go inside humans and make them much smarter than before. Ray Kurzweil · Prediction · 26 May 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Resolved true Satya Nadella Factual 24 May 2022 Gaming is the biggest digital entertainment category. Satya Nadella · Factual · 24 May 2022 Economics and markets
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Prediction AI safety and alignment

“an AGI strongly optimizing on that signal will kill you, because the sensory reward signal was not a ground truth about alignment (as seen by the operators).”

Eliezer Yudkowsky, author 10 June 2022 AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities (MIRI)

Even if an AGI ends up perfectly inner-aligned on a sensory reward signal, an AGI strongly optimizing on that signal "will kill you", because the sensory reward signal was not a ground truth about alignment as seen by the operators.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

Reasoning

Prediction about a hypothetical AGI with no horizon; untestable.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Even if an AGI ends up perfectly inner-aligned on a sensory reward signal, an AGI strongly optimizing on that signal "will kill you", because the sensory reward signal was not a ground truth about alignment as seen by the operators.” (said 10 June 2022). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_f7905d2dc581, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_f7905d2dc581

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