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Mostly true Tyler Cowen Factual 13 May 2019 US consumers are not bearing the full burden of the tariffs in the US-China trade war. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 13 May 2019 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Bill Gates Prediction 11 May 2019 With the right investments in health and education, young people at the bottom of the global population pyramid will drive tremendous growth and innovation. Bill Gates · Prediction · 11 May 2019 Other
Resolved true Bill Gates Factual 10 May 2019 Melinda Gates asked Bill Gates to introduce her at her Moment of Lift book tour stop in Seattle on 2019-05-10. Bill Gates · Factual · 10 May 2019 Their own work or organisation
Resolved true Satya Nadella Factual 30 Apr 2019 Microsoft is partnering with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to bring the Xbox Adaptive Controller to veterans with limited mobility. Satya Nadella · Factual · 30 Apr 2019 Philosophy, ethics and society
Resolved true Vinod Khosla Factual 30 Apr 2019 Most people are not getting access to high-quality behavioral health support. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 30 Apr 2019 Other
Resolved true Satya Nadella Factual 29 Apr 2019 Satya Nadella appeared at Dell Tech World with Michael Dell and Pat Gelsinger. Satya Nadella · Factual · 29 Apr 2019 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Vinod Khosla Factual 21 Apr 2019 Vinod Khosla said he never read the book he referred to as the "ten book", which had been attributed to him, and did not recommend it. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 21 Apr 2019 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Vinod Khosla Prediction 19 Apr 2019 Vinod Khosla said he suspected that the physical exam in medicine will be replaced by something like an upgraded AI-directed ultrasound. Vinod Khosla · Prediction · 19 Apr 2019 AI capabilities
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 11 Apr 2019 Amazon has 10 Amazon Go stores in Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 11 Apr 2019 Technology
Mostly true Jeff Bezos Factual 11 Apr 2019 Amazon spent several years building Amazon Aurora, a managed MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible database with durability and availability equal to or better than commercial engines at one-tenth the cost. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 11 Apr 2019 Technology
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 11 Apr 2019 AWS is a business with a $30 billion annual run rate as of early 2019 and is growing fast. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 11 Apr 2019 Economics and markets
Mostly true Jeff Bezos Factual 11 Apr 2019 Amazon represents a low single-digit percentage of the retail market, and much larger retailers exist in every country where it operates. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 11 Apr 2019 Economics and markets
Mostly true Jeff Bezos Factual 11 Apr 2019 Amazon's first-party business grew at a compound annual rate of 25% from 1999 to 2018, from $1.6 billion to $117 billion. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 11 Apr 2019 Economics and markets
Resolved true Satya Nadella Factual 9 Apr 2019 Microsoft is teaming up with Mastercard, Workday and the public sector to support the next generation of cybersecurity leaders. Satya Nadella · Factual · 9 Apr 2019 Technology
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual Apr 2019 Third-party sellers' share of physical gross merchandise sales on Amazon has grown from 3% of the total to 58%. Jeff Bezos · Factual · Apr 2019 Economics and markets
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual Apr 2019 Amazon began developing the Fire phone and the Echo around the same time. Jeff Bezos · Factual · Apr 2019 Technology
Unresolvable Jeff Bezos Factual Apr 2019 Amazon invested in and offered independent sellers selling tools such as inventory management, payments, shipment tracking, reporting and cross-border selling. Jeff Bezos · Factual · Apr 2019 Economics and markets
Mostly true Jeff Bezos Factual Apr 2019 Third-party sales on Amazon grew from $0.1 billion to $160 billion over the period discussed, a compound annual growth rate of 52%. Jeff Bezos · Factual · Apr 2019 Economics and markets
Mostly true Jeff Bezos Factual Apr 2019 Since the first-generation Echo, customers have purchased more than 100 million Alexa-enabled devices. Jeff Bezos · Factual · Apr 2019 Technology
Mostly true Jeff Bezos Factual Apr 2019 Amazon represents a low single-digit percentage of the global retail market, with much larger retailers in every country where it operates. Jeff Bezos · Factual · Apr 2019 Economics and markets
Resolved true Rodney Brooks Factual 19 Mar 2019 Computer architects are building special-purpose chips for runtime use of trained neural networks to compensate for power and performance limits. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 19 Mar 2019 AI compute, hardware and data
Unresolvable Rodney Brooks Factual 19 Mar 2019 As of 2019, the computation needed to train many current neural networks can only be provided by very large companies with very large budgets. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 19 Mar 2019 AI compute, hardware and data
Mostly true Rodney Brooks Factual 19 Mar 2019 The push to make everything learnable is raising the cost of AI beyond what individuals or even large university departments can afford. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 19 Mar 2019 AI compute, hardware and data
Unresolvable Rodney Brooks Factual 19 Mar 2019 Brooks says his review, including this comment, is seventy-six words shorter than Sutton's post. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 19 Mar 2019 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Rodney Brooks Factual 19 Mar 2019 At a two-day Deep Learning workshop at the National Academy of Science in the week before 2019-03-19, the view favouring task-specialised computation structures was more in vogue than pure learning with massive compute. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 19 Mar 2019 AI capabilities
Mostly true Rodney Brooks Factual 19 Mar 2019 Moore's Law is slowing, and some computer architects report the doubling time of computation on a single chip moving from one year to twenty years. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 19 Mar 2019 AI compute, hardware and data
Resolved true Rodney Brooks Factual 19 Mar 2019 Today's machine learning data sets can contain billions of examples, whereas a human may need only a handful to learn the same thing. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 19 Mar 2019 AI capabilities
Mostly true Ray Dalio Factual 8 Mar 2019 Money donated to Grameen America is repeatedly lent and repaid, so each $1 donated results in roughly $12 lent to people over 10 years. Ray Dalio · Factual · 8 Mar 2019 Other
Unresolvable Ray Dalio Prediction 7 Mar 2019 2020 will be "the year of the ocean." Ray Dalio · Prediction · 7 Mar 2019 Other
Unresolvable Ray Dalio Factual 7 Mar 2019 Ray Dalio took part in the Economist World Ocean Initiative's summit in March 2019. Ray Dalio · Factual · 7 Mar 2019 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Ray Dalio Factual 3 Mar 2019 A film of the first dive to 1,000m in Antarctica won Best Micro Movie at the World Wildlife Day Film Showcase. Ray Dalio · Factual · 3 Mar 2019 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Sam Altman Factual 16 Feb 2019 Average burn rates of early-stage startups rose very rapidly over the years before February 2019. Sam Altman · Factual · 16 Feb 2019 Economics and markets
Resolved true Gary Marcus Factual 16 Feb 2019 The system has no idea that a unicorn has one horn and asserts that it has four. Gary Marcus · Factual · 16 Feb 2019 AI capabilities
Mixed Sam Altman Factual 16 Feb 2019 There has been a massive surge in the availability of cheap seed funding for startups. Sam Altman · Factual · 16 Feb 2019 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Gary Marcus Factual 16 Feb 2019 OpenAI's new system is state of the art on some question-answering tests but is no match for humans on story understanding. Gary Marcus · Factual · 16 Feb 2019 AI capabilities
Resolved true Sam Altman Factual 14 Feb 2019 OpenAI has produced an unsupervised language model that can do many tasks. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Feb 2019 AI capabilities
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 7 Feb 2019 Jeff Bezos has written a post about developments with the National Enquirer and its parent company, AMI. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 7 Feb 2019 Their own work or organisation
Resolved true Sam Altman Factual 29 Jan 2019 Y Combinator is hosting a new conference (announced January 2019). Sam Altman · Factual · 29 Jan 2019 Field building and careers
Unresolvable Bill Ackman Prediction 25 Jan 2019 If Congress members went unpaid during shutdowns like federal workers, the US would no longer have government shutdowns. Bill Ackman · Prediction · 25 Jan 2019 AI policy and governance
Unresolvable Sam Altman Factual 24 Jan 2019 Helping people as much as possible over a long period led to most of Sam Altman's best career opportunities and three of his four best investments. Sam Altman · Factual · 24 Jan 2019 Field building and careers
Unresolvable Sam Altman Factual 24 Jan 2019 Sam Altman has not met a slow-moving person who is very successful. Sam Altman · Factual · 24 Jan 2019 Field building and careers
Unresolvable Sam Altman Factual 24 Jan 2019 Sam Altman has never met a very successful pessimistic person. Sam Altman · Factual · 24 Jan 2019 Field building and careers
Mostly false Sam Altman Factual 24 Jan 2019 Work stamina seems to be one of the biggest predictors of long-term success. Sam Altman · Factual · 24 Jan 2019 Field building and careers
Resolved true Sam Altman Factual 24 Jan 2019 Sam Altman has observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or create something important. Sam Altman · Factual · 24 Jan 2019 Field building and careers
Unresolvable Sam Altman Factual 24 Jan 2019 The most successful people Sam Altman knows believe in themselves almost to the point of delusion. Sam Altman · Factual · 24 Jan 2019 Field building and careers
Unresolvable Sam Altman Factual 24 Jan 2019 Most highly successful people have been really right about the future at least once when people thought they were wrong. Sam Altman · Factual · 24 Jan 2019 Field building and careers
Unresolvable Sam Altman Prediction 24 Jan 2019 With technology, more and more businesses will have true network effects and extreme scalability. Sam Altman · Prediction · 24 Jan 2019 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Scott Alexander Factual 22 Jan 2019 Of his 2018 predictions at 80%, Scott Alexander got 10 right and 3 wrong, a score of 77%. Scott Alexander · Factual · 22 Jan 2019 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Scott Alexander Factual 22 Jan 2019 Of his 2018 predictions at 60%, Scott Alexander got 8 right and 7 wrong, a score of 53%. Scott Alexander · Factual · 22 Jan 2019 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Scott Alexander Factual 22 Jan 2019 Of his 2018 predictions at 95%, Scott Alexander got 6 right and 2 wrong, a score of 75%. Scott Alexander · Factual · 22 Jan 2019 Their own work or organisation
Delivered on time Scott Alexander Promise 22 Jan 2019 Scott Alexander will post his 2019 predictions later in the week of 22 January 2019. Scott Alexander · Promise · 22 Jan 2019 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Scott Alexander Factual 22 Jan 2019 At the 95% confidence level, Scott Alexander's 2018 predictions came out only 75% correct. Scott Alexander · Factual · 22 Jan 2019 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Scott Alexander Factual 22 Jan 2019 Scott Alexander made predictions in February 2018 for the next five years. Scott Alexander · Factual · 22 Jan 2019 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Scott Alexander Factual 22 Jan 2019 Cryptocurrency crashed during 2018, after Bitcoin was around $15,000 when Scott Alexander made his 2018 predictions. Scott Alexander · Factual · 22 Jan 2019 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Scott Alexander Factual 22 Jan 2019 Scott Alexander made many correlated cryptocurrency predictions for 2018, which therefore scored badly. Scott Alexander · Factual · 22 Jan 2019 Their own work or organisation
Mostly false Gary Marcus Factual 17 Jan 2019 According to Giuliani's disclosure on 2019-01-17, every tweet and statement like the one referenced was a lie, and Trump's campaign colluded. Gary Marcus · Factual · 17 Jan 2019 Other
Mostly false Gary Marcus Factual 17 Jan 2019 A linked report confirms that Donald Trump took talking points from Vladimir Putin. Gary Marcus · Factual · 17 Jan 2019 Other
Unresolvable Gary Marcus Prediction 15 Jan 2019 William Barr may become the person who most subverts American democracy, more than Donald Trump. Gary Marcus · Prediction · 15 Jan 2019 AI policy and governance
Resolved true Sam Altman Factual 9 Jan 2019 Sam Altman spoke with Vinod Khosla in an interview or conversation published in January 2019. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Jan 2019 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Gary Marcus Factual 9 Jan 2019 The Kindle edition of The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science is available as of 2019-01-09. Gary Marcus · Factual · 9 Jan 2019 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Sam Altman Prediction 5 Jan 2019 By 2025, AGI will feel within reach to many people in the AI industry. Sam Altman · Prediction · 5 Jan 2019 AI timelines and forecasting
Resolved true Sam Altman Prediction 5 Jan 2019 By 2025, net-gain nuclear fusion will be working at prototype scale. Sam Altman · Prediction · 5 Jan 2019 Technology
Unresolvable Sam Altman Factual 5 Jan 2019 As of January 2019, Altman said portfolio 1 in his bet was probably close to satisfying the bet's condition. Sam Altman · Factual · 5 Jan 2019 Their own work or organisation
Resolved true Sam Altman Factual 5 Jan 2019 Sam Altman made a bet almost four years before January 2019. Sam Altman · Factual · 5 Jan 2019 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Sam Altman Prediction 5 Jan 2019 By 2025, gene editing will have cured at least one major disease. Sam Altman · Prediction · 5 Jan 2019 Technology
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 2 Jan 2019 Mike George, former Alexa VP and long-time Amazon employee, has agreed to lead the Day 1 Academies Fund. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 2 Jan 2019 Their own work or organisation
Resolved true Gary Marcus Factual 2 Jan 2019 Gary Marcus posted "Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal" on 2018-01-02, asking whether deep learning might be approaching a wall and be just one tool among many needed for AGI. Gary Marcus · Factual · 2 Jan 2019 AI capabilities
Mostly true Nassim Taleb Factual 2019 In Hayek's account, knowledge is consolidated via prices and arbitrageurs, who trade products, services and financial securities, not binary bets. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 2019 Economics and markets
Resolved true Yann LeCun Factual 2019 In computer vision, the trend is to apply ConvNets to an entire image to detect, segment and recognize objects of any size at any location. Yann LeCun · Factual · 2019 AI capabilities
Resolved true Nassim Taleb Factual 2019 Morgan Stanley correctly predicted the financial crisis but lost $10 billion on its hedge. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 2019 Economics and markets
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Unresolvable Gary Marcus Prediction 2019 The deep learning approach to language would never work, as argued in a chapter of Rebooting AI. Gary Marcus · Prediction · 2019 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Nassim Taleb Factual 2019 The difference between binary and vanilla payoffs is well known in mathematical finance but does not seem to have been passed on to the decision-theory literature. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 2019 Economics and markets
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Mostly true Nassim Taleb Factual 2019 Value at Risk is not a coherent risk measure because it violates subadditivity. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 2019 Economics and markets
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“Amazon today remains a small player in global retail.”

Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, shareholder letter April 2019 2018 Letter to Shareholders (Amazon IR)

Amazon represents a low single-digit percentage of the global retail market, with much larger retailers in every country where it operates.

Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.

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What would count as true or false

Judge as of April 2019, using Amazon's retail sales against estimates of total global retail sales for 2018. True: Amazon's share of global retail is a low single-digit percentage (below ~4%), and in each major country where Amazon operates there are retailers with larger total retail sales. Mostly true: the share is below ~5%, or the share is low single-digit and larger retailers exist in nearly all of its countries, with an exception in a minor market. Mixed: only one of the two parts holds (for example a low share overall, but Amazon is the largest retailer in a major market such as the US). Mostly false: the share is around 5%–9%, or Amazon was the largest retailer in several major markets where it operated. False: the share is 10% or more, or Amazon was the dominant retailer in most of its markets.

Evidence

  1. As 3rd-party sellers take over, Amazon's own market share loses 10 points Retail Dive · 14 June 2019
    “While its share of U.S. e-commerce may reach 37.7% this quarter by eMarketer's measure, its share of retail sales overall will hit just 4%, according to that report.”
  2. Total Retail Sales Worldwide, 2016-2021 (trillions and % change) EMARKETER · 1 January 2018
    “Retail sales worldwide reached nearly $24 trillion in 2018.”
  3. Top Retail Companies in the world by Market Share: Ranking the Ten Biggest Retail Insight Network · 8 March 2019
    “Amazon.com’s revenues increased by 31% to $232bn in 2018, due to strong sales growth in all of its segments including International, North America, and AWS.”
  4. Top Retail Companies in the world by Market Share: Ranking the Ten Biggest Retail Insight Network · 8 March 2019
    “Walmart reported a 2.8% year-on-year increase in 2018 revenue, which reached $514bn, primarily driven by US e-commerce sales.”

Reasoning

E3 puts Amazon's total 2018 revenue at $232bn, and that figure includes AWS, so its retail sales were lower still. E2 puts 2018 worldwide retail sales at nearly $24 trillion, which gives Amazon a global share of about 1% or less, well inside the low-single-digit range. E4 shows Walmart's 2018 revenue of $514bn was more than double Amazon's, and E1 cites eMarketer putting Amazon at only about 4% of total U.S. retail sales. The evidence does not compare retailers country by country, so the part about larger rivals in every market is only partly supported, which rules out a full true verdict.

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Jeff Bezos, “Amazon represents a low single-digit percentage of the global retail market, with much larger retailers in every country where it operates.” (said April 2019). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_fde48f08c015, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_fde48f08c015

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