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| Verdict | Person | Kind | Said | Claim | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not researched | Satya Nadella | Factual | Oct 2017 | Satya Nadella said that when he was asked during the process whether he wanted to be CEO, he replied 'only if you want me to be a CEO'. Satya Nadella · Factual · Oct 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 12 Sep 2017 | Ray Dalio started going to China in 1984. Ray Dalio · Factual · 12 Sep 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 12 Sep 2017 | Bridgewater has managed money since 1993 for Chinese institutions outside China. Ray Dalio · Factual · 12 Sep 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 12 Sep 2017 | In the 1980s Dalio was wrong in expecting the worst economic conditions. Ray Dalio · Factual · 12 Sep 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 12 Sep 2017 | Dalio said he was told that his process of being radically truthful was hurting people's morale. Ray Dalio · Factual · 12 Sep 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | OpenAI does not lower its machine learning hiring bar for people who want to work on safety. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | Dario Amodei was not present when OpenAI was founded or its name chosen, and did not pick the name. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | OpenAI's safety team consisted of Dario Amodei and Paul Christiano as of mid-2017. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | Amodei said that he and OpenAI focus a lot on reinforcement learning because it, and extended versions of it, seems a better fit for what intelligent agents do in general. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | Amodei said he thinks that, broadly, most people at OpenAI are worried about the issues under discussion or at least think they are worth thinking about, and he set this apart from the staff actively doing technical work on them. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | Dario Amodei has not been closely involved in OpenAI's rapid hiring and growth, except on the safety side. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | OpenAI had about 55 staff in mid-2017. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | OpenAI is a nonprofit and does not sell products. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | As of 2017, OpenAI's funding came only from donations. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | Dario Amodei's PhD was not in machine learning. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | Dario Amodei had never worked at a startup before OpenAI. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | OpenAI is a nonprofit AI research lab. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | Amodei said he thinks OpenAI has generally been very selective in whom it picks. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 10 Jul 2017 | Skin in the Game is Volume 5 of Taleb's Incerto. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 10 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 10 Jul 2017 | Taleb's essay on the minority rule has been downloaded several million times. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 10 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 10 Jul 2017 | Taleb said he had initially looked at the topic under discussion in his book Antifragile. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 10 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 10 Jul 2017 | Taleb does not employ a full-time assistant and instead employs people for specific tasks. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 10 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not yet due | Nassim Taleb | Prediction | 10 Jul 2017 | A book that is interesting today and would have been interesting 20 years ago will probably still be interesting 20 years from now. Nassim Taleb · Prediction · 10 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 10 Jul 2017 | The first version of Fooled by Randomness had no citations. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 10 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 10 Jul 2017 | Taleb moved his office from New York to Connecticut for tax reasons. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 10 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 10 Jul 2017 | Fooled by Randomness is close to 20 years old. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 10 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 10 Jul 2017 | Taleb said he had posted a lot of things online and organized the book based on the excitement the chapters brought, adding "Of course, not 100%." Nassim Taleb · Factual · 10 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 10 Jul 2017 | Taleb made many local mistakes in his books and went back and corrected almost all of them without anybody knowing. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 10 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 10 Jul 2017 | Over time Taleb removed from Fooled by Randomness everything that was contemporary. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 10 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 10 Jul 2017 | The first 40 pages of the Skin in the Game manuscript explain skin in the game. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 10 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 22 Jun 2017 | Facebook used to have a sense that connecting people online would by itself make many things in the world better. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 22 Jun 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Promise | 22 Jun 2017 | Zuckerberg said he thought the new Groups tools gave Facebook a good shot at connecting a billion people to meaningful communities within about five years. Mark Zuckerberg · Promise · 22 Jun 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved false | Elon Musk | Promise | 16 Jun 2017 | SpaceX plans to send a Dragon 2 propulsive lander to Mars in about two years, and probably another Dragon mission in 2020. Elon Musk · Promise · 16 Jun 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 17 Apr 2017 | Jeff Bezos said he told the Amazon Studios team it was debatable whether a recently greenlit original would be interesting enough, that it was complicated to produce, that the business terms were not that good, and that there were other opportunities. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 17 Apr 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly false | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 17 Apr 2017 | Jeff Bezos frequently uses "disagree and commit" on decisions himself. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 17 Apr 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 17 Apr 2017 | Jeff Bezos works in an Amazon building named Day 1 and kept the name when he moved buildings. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 17 Apr 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 17 Apr 2017 | Jeff Bezos has been reminding people that it is Day 1 for a couple of decades. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 17 Apr 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 17 Apr 2017 | Jeff Bezos said he replied right away to the team with "I disagree and commit and hope it becomes the most watched thing we've ever made." Jeff Bezos · Factual · 17 Apr 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Ray Kurzweil | Factual | Mar 2017 | Marvin Minsky was Kurzweil's mentor for 54 years until Minsky's death about a year before March 2017. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Mar 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ray Kurzweil | Factual | Mar 2017 | Ray Kurzweil said he visited Rosenblatt in 1962 when he was 14. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · Mar 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Buffett said he had never met the CEOs of any of the four airlines, though he added that he may have met one and shaken his hand at a Texas business Hall of Fame event. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire received an 8.5 percent coupon on its Dow Chemical preferred, not 10 percent. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire Hathaway is not buying Apple stock at its current price. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Buffett said he had said the same thing (an offer only if wanted) at "the N.S.F." Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire's Dow Chemical preferred would have converted into about 70 to 72 million Dow shares. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire made about a billion dollars in capital gains on its Dow Chemical investment, plus an 8.5 percent coupon. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Warren Buffett bought his first stock in the spring of 1942, when he was 11 years old. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Buffett said he usually sees him maybe twice a year, at Sun Valley and perhaps one other time. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire received $255 million a year in dividends on its Dow preferred while it held it. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Buffett said Berkshire had received nothing but good reports about the CEO, whom Greg Abel had known 20 years earlier. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Buffett said that once he and the two others he referred to as "the three of us" learned that it was regarded as unfriendly, they had no intention of making one; the surrounding remarks refer to the 3G people and to Unilever. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire Hathaway stopped buying Apple stock when Apple's earnings were released. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Prediction | 27 Feb 2017 | Buffett guessed that there would be another deal involving Kraft Heinz at some point, and said he did not know when. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire has made money on its one prior airline investment (US Air). Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Warren Buffett bought a stock in 1942 while Franklin Roosevelt was president. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire Hathaway does not make hostile takeover bids. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Prediction | 27 Feb 2017 | Buffett said he would bet the Berkshire employee bracket contest would go over 100,000 entries in 2017, after 85,000 entries in 2016. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Delivered on time | Warren Buffett | Promise | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire will run the same NCAA bracket contest among its employees in 2017 as it did in 2016. Warren Buffett · Promise · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire regards $20 billion in cash as its minimum cash holding. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire has never owned chemical company common shares. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | As of February 2017, no acquisition deal is in the works at Berkshire. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire Hathaway has not bought Apple stock at its current (February 2017) price. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | When Buffett approached Precision Castparts and Mark Donegan, he said he would make an offer if they wanted one and otherwise to forget it. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire closed its purchase of $3 billion of Dow Chemical preferred stock in April 2009, when the market had collapsed. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Buffett said he does not work on acquisitions "that way" himself, referring back to an approach mentioned just before. He said he tells the seller he will make an offer if they want one and won't make one if they don't. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Unilever was the only deal in that area that Buffett seriously thought about and that made sense. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Within an hour, Berkshire and 3G conveyed to Unilever that their approach was not a friendly offer. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Promise | 27 Feb 2017 | If exactly one Berkshire employee reaches the sweet 16 in the contest, that employee will receive $1 million a year for life. Warren Buffett · Promise · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | As of February 2017, there is no backup deal after the Unilever approach. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mixed | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Buffett said Berkshire tried to time its sales of Dow Chemical stock once it rose above the conversion price, selling more aggressively as the price rose, because it did not want to own the roughly 72 million common shares. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | On 27 February 2017, asked whether he was working on anything, Buffett said he is always looking but that there was "nothing close". Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire does not make hostile takeover offers. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Buffett tried to sell Berkshire's US Air preferred stock at 50 cents on the dollar. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire's US Air preferred stock had a clause under which unpaid dividends compounded at a good rate. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Rodney Brooks | Factual | 12 Jan 2017 | Rodney Brooks is on the advisory board of the Toyota Research Institute. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 12 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Peter Thiel | Factual | 11 Jan 2017 | Thiel said he had watched the first season of HBO's Silicon Valley, that the character based on him died, and that he liked the character. Peter Thiel · Factual · 11 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Scott Alexander | Prediction | 6 Jan 2017 | Scott Alexander will take the job he is currently expecting to take. Scott Alexander · Prediction · 6 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Scott Alexander | Prediction | 6 Jan 2017 | Slate Star Codex will remain active through 2017. Scott Alexander · Prediction · 6 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Scott Alexander | Prediction | 6 Jan 2017 | Scott Alexander gave a 50% probability that he would be involved in at least one published or accepted-to-publish research paper by the end of 2017. Scott Alexander · Prediction · 6 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Scott Alexander | Factual | 6 Jan 2017 | Scott Alexander makes predictions at the beginning of every year. Scott Alexander · Factual · 6 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Scott Alexander | Prediction | 6 Jan 2017 | Scott Alexander gave a 50% probability that he would get at least one article published on a major site such as Huffington Post, Vox or New Statesman in 2017. Scott Alexander · Prediction · 6 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Scott Alexander | Prediction | 6 Jan 2017 | Scott Alexander gave a 60% probability that he would not score at or above the 95th percentile when he got his 2017 PRITE scores back. Scott Alexander · Prediction · 6 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Scott Alexander | Prediction | 6 Jan 2017 | Scott Alexander will attend the Bay Area Solstice in the coming year (2017). Scott Alexander · Prediction · 6 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Scott Alexander | Prediction | 6 Jan 2017 | Scott Alexander gave an 80% probability that by the end of 2017 SSC would have no co-bloggers with more than 5 posts. Scott Alexander · Prediction · 6 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Scott Alexander | Prediction | 6 Jan 2017 | Scott Alexander will pass his Boards in 2017. Scott Alexander · Prediction · 6 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Scott Alexander | Prediction | 6 Jan 2017 | Scott Alexander will finish a long FAQ in 2017. Scott Alexander · Prediction · 6 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 1 Jan 2017 | Sam Altman said he expected that someday, when the history of YC is written, people will talk about its software as one of its secret weapons. Sam Altman · Prediction · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | YC has funded more than 30 non-profits. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | YC Continuity is YC's growth-stage fund. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 1 Jan 2017 | In 2017 the total valuation of companies that have gone through YC will surpass $100 billion, absent a macroeconomic meltdown. Sam Altman · Prediction · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | In 2016 about 22.3% of companies YC funded had a woman on the founding team and about 12.5% of founders funded were women. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 1 Jan 2017 | Sam Altman said he expected YC's flagship program to significantly strengthen over the course of 2017 and beyond. Sam Altman · Prediction · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | Besides Airbnb, Dropbox and Stripe, more than 50 YC companies are each worth more than $100 million. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Promise | 1 Jan 2017 | Sam Altman will teach YC's online startup course in 2017. Sam Altman · Promise · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | In 2016, YC funded 68 female founders at 52 companies. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | YC gives companies in its program $120k for 7% ownership and works intensively with them for 3 months, then less intensively afterwards. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | The percentage of women who apply to YC is roughly the same as the percentage of women who get funded. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | Hacker News remains focused on startups, programming and other intellectually interesting topics. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | In October 2016, Michael Seibel took over responsibility for YC's main program as CEO of YC. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | YC invested about $27 million in its Winter and Summer 2016 batches and about $187 million so far in later-stage investments from its first Continuity fund. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
“And I said, only if you want me to be a CEO.”
Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO October 2017 Economic Club of Washington: Nadella on Hit Refresh (Economic Club of Washington)
Satya Nadella said that when he was asked during the process whether he wanted to be CEO, he replied 'only if you want me to be a CEO'.
Not researched Checkable, but outside the sample that was researched.
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Satya Nadella, “Satya Nadella said that when he was asked during the process whether he wanted to be CEO, he replied 'only if you want me to be a CEO'.” (said October 2017). Verdict: not researched. Reliability API, claim c_b505c8567789, method 0.1.0+28da144b. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_b505c8567789
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