2,528 claims · page 15 of 26
| Verdict | Person | Kind | Said | Claim | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not researched | Scott Alexander | Factual | 14 Feb 2021 | Scott Alexander deleted his blog and replaced it with a post condemning the New York Times' actions, as a protest and to prevent his name being revealed. Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| 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 |
| Not researched | Bill Gates | Factual | Feb 2021 | The Gates Foundation is working with manufacturers and partners to deliver COVID-19 vaccines cheaply and at very large scale. Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Bill Gates | Factual | Feb 2021 | The Gates Foundation has worked on infectious diseases for decades and has long-standing relationships with the WHO, experts, governments and the private sector. Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Bill Gates | Factual | Feb 2021 | Over the two decades to 2021, Gates Foundation resources backed the development of 11 vaccines certified as safe and effective. Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Bill Gates | Factual | Feb 2021 | About two decades before 2021, Bill and Melinda Gates created a foundation focused on global health, using returns from Microsoft. Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| 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 |
| Not researched | Bill Gates | Factual | Feb 2021 | Most of the Gates Foundation's COVID-19 funding went to producing and procuring medical supplies. 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 | 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 |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Promise | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla may make a few Cybertruck deliveries toward the end of 2021. Elon Musk · Promise · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla built a Model Y factory in China from start to finish in one year. Elon Musk · Factual · 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 |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla Semi would use typically five times as many cells as a car but would not sell for five times the price of a car. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla started producing the model at Fremont and has almost reached full production speed. Elon Musk · Factual · 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 |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla produced and delivered 0.5 million cars in 2020. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla has finished almost all of the Cybertruck engineering. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla reached industry-leading GAAP operating margins, positive net income and record cash flow in 2020. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla built a battery cell pilot factory in the Bay Area. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| 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 |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla introduced the heat pump to all of its vehicles. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla delivered in 2020 almost as many cars as it had produced in its entire history before. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| 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 |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Promise | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla will be offering a subscription within the next month or two. 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 |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla ramped Model 3 production in Shanghai to more than 5,000 cars a week sustainably. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla is in talks with its cell suppliers about making the 4680 form factor. Elon Musk · Factual · 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 |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | No production car had ever accelerated from 0 to 60 mph in under two seconds. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Cell supply is the only problem for Tesla in building a long-range battery truck. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| 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 |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla's solar business saw strong quarter-over-quarter growth over the last year, with its best quarter since about 2018 in Q4 2020. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| 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 |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla has had preliminary discussions with other automakers about licensing Autopilot. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| 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 |
| Not researched | Yann LeCun | Factual | 2021 | A paper coming out of the FAIR group at Menlo Park shows a masking-based method that works very well, without data augmentation. Yann LeCun · Factual · 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 29 Dec 2020 | A part of Fooled by Randomness was inspired by the psychology of Lebanese depositors who enjoyed steady and high returns. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 29 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Elon Musk | Promise | 29 Dec 2020 | Tesla will give three months of Full Self-Driving free to all cars delivered in the final three days of 2020, with delivery and paperwork complete by midnight Dec 31. Elon Musk · Promise · 29 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 27 Dec 2020 | Taleb has finished the technical content of the Lindy chapter of his book. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 27 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Elon Musk | Factual | 25 Dec 2020 | The latest Tesla software update lets owners change the car horn sound to a goat, snake with saxophone, fart sound or holiday jingles. Elon Musk · Factual · 25 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 24 Dec 2020 | A 12-story rocket turns off its engines and performs a controlled fall. Elon Musk · Factual · 24 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 15 Dec 2020 | Buffett said he attended the first graduation of the Small Business Program, which he credited to Goldman Sachs, at LaGuardia Community College about 10 years before he spoke in December 2020. Warren Buffett · Factual · 15 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 15 Dec 2020 | Berkshire Hathaway has bought a few small businesses. Warren Buffett · Factual · 15 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Factual | 15 Dec 2020 | Buffett graduated from two universities and attended neither graduation ceremony. Warren Buffett · Factual · 15 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Factual | 15 Dec 2020 | The company Mrs. B started at the Furniture Mart now employs probably 10,000 people. Warren Buffett · Factual · 15 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 10 Dec 2020 | Volume 3 of Taleb's Incerto includes errors in regression/overfitting in social science, plus IQ metrics. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 10 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 9 Dec 2020 | Starship SN8's flight on 2020-12-09 achieved a successful ascent, switchover to header tanks and precise flap control to the landing point. Elon Musk · Factual · 9 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Elon Musk | Factual | 25 Nov 2020 | On 2020-11-25, Musk described a launch as a "life leader launch", saying it carried more risk than normal. Elon Musk · Factual · 25 Nov 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly false | Elon Musk | Promise | 24 Nov 2020 | SpaceX aims to fly Starship SN8 on its first flight to about 15 km (~50,000 ft) altitude the week after 2020-11-24. Elon Musk · Promise · 24 Nov 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Elon Musk | Factual | 22 Nov 2020 | The rocket was due to fly its 7th flight on 2020-11-23, landing on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You. Elon Musk · Factual · 22 Nov 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Bill Ackman | Promise | 19 Nov 2020 | Bill Ackman will match donations to a cause dollar for dollar. Bill Ackman · Promise · 19 Nov 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Gary Marcus | Factual | 28 Oct 2020 | Marcus spent three months recruiting Rodney Brooks to join his robotics company idea. Gary Marcus · Factual · 28 Oct 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 25 Oct 2020 | Ray Dalio has practiced meditation since 1968. Ray Dalio · Factual · 25 Oct 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ray Dalio | Factual | 25 Oct 2020 | Dalio recently made a $50 million donation to set up a Center for Health Justice. Ray Dalio · Factual · 25 Oct 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 25 Oct 2020 | Dalio did not anticipate the COVID-19 pandemic and was taken by surprise by it. Ray Dalio · Factual · 25 Oct 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ray Dalio | Factual | 25 Oct 2020 | Dalio said "we" bought 60,000 computers, in the context of children not being educated and the state lacking money. Ray Dalio · Factual · 25 Oct 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Yann LeCun | Factual | 30 Sep 2020 | Ken Perlin is a colleague of Yann LeCun at NYU. Yann LeCun · Factual · 30 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Yann LeCun | Factual | 28 Sep 2020 | Konbini published a short interview with Yann LeCun on the history of deep learning and his career. Yann LeCun · Factual · 28 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Ørsted | Promise | 9 Sep 2020 | Henrik Poulsen will serve as special advisor to Mads Nipper until 31 January 2021 to support a smooth transition. Ørsted · Promise · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | Mads Nipper's compensation package follows Ørsted's remuneration policy and includes a fixed base salary of DKK 15 million, which also covers pension contribution. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | Ørsted ranks #1 in Corporate Knights' 2020 Global 100 index of most sustainable corporations and is on the CDP Climate Change A List. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | Ørsted is one of the five largest renewable energy companies in the world. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | Mads Nipper's package includes an annual cash-based variable remuneration of 0-30% of annual fixed salary with a 15% target, and long-term share-based remuneration with a target of 20% of annual fixed salary. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ørsted | Promise | 9 Sep 2020 | Henrik Poulsen will remain in office as Ørsted CEO until 31 December 2020. Ørsted · Promise · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | Mads Nipper led a transformation of Grundfos over the past six years that reinforced the company's position in an increasingly competitive market and strengthened its financial performance. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Ørsted | Promise | 9 Sep 2020 | In 2021 the CEO's total target remuneration at Ørsted will be approximately DKK 20 million. Ørsted · Promise · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | Ørsted is headquartered in Denmark and employs 6,000 people. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | Henrik Poulsen announced on 15 June 2020 his decision to resign and step down as CEO of Ørsted no later than 31 January 2021. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ørsted | Promise | 9 Sep 2020 | Mads Nipper will take office as Ørsted CEO on 1 January 2021. Ørsted · Promise · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | The announcement does not change Ørsted's previous financial guidance for 2020 or the announced expected investment level for 2020. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | On 9 September 2020 Ørsted's Board of Directors appointed Mads Nipper CEO and Group President of Ørsted as of 1 January 2021. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | Under Ørsted's remuneration policy, the CEO must own shares in Ørsted to participate in the long-term share-based remuneration programme. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Yann LeCun | Factual | 14 Aug 2020 | The Wall Street Journal published a piece on self-supervised learning involving Kyunghyun Cho and Yann LeCun. Yann LeCun · Factual · 14 Aug 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Rodney Brooks | Factual | 3 Aug 2020 | On 2020-08-03 Rodney Brooks published a short blog post on how quickly accepted wisdom in science changes, with suggestions of possible radical scientific reorientations. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 3 Aug 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 29 Jun 2020 | A new economic history podcast launched by 29 June 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 29 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Scott Alexander | Factual | 24 Jun 2020 | The New York Times reporter told Scott Alexander that his editor absolutely prohibited writing the story without Alexander's real name and that the reporter considered the story too important to drop. Scott Alexander · Factual · 24 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Scott Alexander | Factual | 24 Jun 2020 | Scott Alexander discussed with the New York Times reporter why he wanted his real name left out of the story, saying largely what he said in his public post. Scott Alexander · Factual · 24 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 17 Jun 2020 | Tyler Cowen conducted a Conversations with Tyler interview with Rachel Harmon, released by 17 June 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 17 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 9 Jun 2020 | Marginal Revolution University released a new video featuring Colin Camerer by 9 June 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 9 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 5 Jun 2020 | Emergent Ventures announced its ninth cohort of winners by 5 June 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 5 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Gary Marcus | Factual | 4 Jun 2020 | Anima Anandkumar misrepresented private correspondence with Gary Marcus. Gary Marcus · Factual · 4 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 3 Jun 2020 | Tyler Cowen conducted a Conversations with Tyler interview with Ashley Mears, released by 3 June 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 3 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 29 May 2020 | Conor Friedersdorf interviewed Tyler Cowen, with the interview published by 29 May 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 29 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | GiveWell shares its plans for the year each spring. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly false | GiveWell | Promise | 28 May 2020 | GiveWell hopes to conduct in-depth reviews of one to two other charities in 2020, most likely Precision Agriculture for Development and/or Sanku, but may have limited capacity due to COVID-19 work. GiveWell · Promise · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | GiveWell's investigation of a potential alcohol policy grant was delayed because the potential grantee shifted its focus to COVID-19 response. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | GiveWell | Promise | 28 May 2020 | GiveWell will make additional COVID-19 response grants if it believes they are more cost-effective than the opportunities to which it would otherwise direct funds. GiveWell · Promise · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | As of 28 May 2020, GiveWell had made three grants for COVID-19 mitigation. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | GiveWell significantly expanded its research team in 2019. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | GiveWell | Prediction | 28 May 2020 | Much of GiveWell's work in 2020 will go forward as anticipated. GiveWell · Prediction · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
“As a protest and an attempt to prevent this from happening, I deleted my blog and replaced it with a post condemning the New York Times’ actions.”
Scott Alexander, blog author 14 February 2021 Statement on New York Times Article (Astral Codex Ten)
Scott Alexander deleted his blog and replaced it with a post condemning the New York Times' actions, as a protest and to prevent his name being revealed.
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