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Own records only Bill Ackman Factual 2024 Pershing Square has 40 employees. Bill Ackman · Factual · 2024 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Rodney Brooks Factual 21 Oct 2023 As of October 2023 Rodney Brooks regularly rides in Cruise autonomous vehicles in San Francisco, more than once a week. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 21 Oct 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Mark Zuckerberg Factual 28 Sep 2023 Llama 2 has received more downloads and usage than Zuckerberg expected, even though he was optimistic. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 28 Sep 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Mark Zuckerberg Factual 28 Sep 2023 As of September 2023, Meta was not close to open sourcing its next foundation model that month and was still somewhat early in working on it. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 28 Sep 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Mark Zuckerberg Factual 28 Sep 2023 In Meta's internal experiments, people had no issues blending photorealistic and non-photorealistic elements in the same scene. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 28 Sep 2023 Technology
Own records only Nate Silver Factual 12 Sep 2023 Nate Silver has occasionally voted Republican or independent for state or local office. Nate Silver · Factual · 12 Sep 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Nate Silver Factual 12 Sep 2023 Nate Silver has voted Democrat for president in every election since he was old enough, except 2012, when he did not vote. Nate Silver · Factual · 12 Sep 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Nate Silver Factual 12 Sep 2023 Nate Silver has consistently scored in about the same place on the Political Compass test for many years. Nate Silver · Factual · 12 Sep 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Nate Silver Factual 11 Sep 2023 The median Silver Bulletin post now gets about the same views as the median post Nate Silver wrote at FiveThirtyEight, with less variance (higher floor, lower ceiling so far). Nate Silver · Factual · 11 Sep 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Nate Silver Factual 11 Sep 2023 Substack staff told Nate Silver that suspending monthly payments and prorated annual refunds is relatively easy to do. Nate Silver · Factual · 11 Sep 2023 Technology
Own records only Marc Andreessen Factual 2 Sep 2023 Andreessen Horowitz holds certain meetings where everyone puts their phones face down. Marc Andreessen · Factual · 2 Sep 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Dario Amodei Prediction 8 Aug 2023 Anthropic's security measures will defend against most attacks and against a less determined state-level actor. Dario Amodei · Prediction · 8 Aug 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Dario Amodei Factual 8 Aug 2023 Anthropic has generally found that hired physics PhDs can learn machine learning and contribute very quickly in most cases. Dario Amodei · Factual · 8 Aug 2023 Field building and careers
Own records only Dario Amodei Factual 8 Aug 2023 Anthropic has worked to ensure the data center used for its models is located in the United States. Dario Amodei · Factual · 8 Aug 2023 AI compute, hardware and data
Own records only Dario Amodei Factual 8 Aug 2023 Dario Amodei has pushed for better cybersecurity at every organisation where he has worked. Dario Amodei · Factual · 8 Aug 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Dario Amodei Factual 8 Aug 2023 Anthropic's current security measures are not sufficient against a super determined state-level actor. Dario Amodei · Factual · 8 Aug 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Dario Amodei Factual 8 Aug 2023 Dario Amodei formed his view on scaling gradually between 2014 and 2017. Dario Amodei · Factual · 8 Aug 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Dario Amodei Factual 8 Aug 2023 Anthropic is focusing heavily on cybersecurity, including working with its cloud providers. Dario Amodei · Factual · 8 Aug 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Dario Amodei Factual 8 Aug 2023 Every traditional investor who invests in Anthropic looks at its unusual governance body. Dario Amodei · Factual · 8 Aug 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Rodney Brooks Factual 22 Jun 2023 A Waymo commercial was being filmed across the street from a pickup location in San Francisco in June 2023. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 22 Jun 2023 Technology
Own records only Ørsted Promise 7 Jun 2023 Ørsted will target an unlevered, fully loaded lifecycle IRR at a 150-300 basis point spread to WACC at the time of bid or FID, whichever comes first, while investing a majority of CAPEX in offshore. Ørsted · Promise · 7 Jun 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Rodney Brooks Factual 7 Jun 2023 On Cruise rides in San Francisco, the car made left turns at speed with traffic that had close calls with parked cars. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 7 Jun 2023 Technology
Own records only Rodney Brooks Factual 28 May 2023 Brooks said that it did not annoy any human drivers. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 28 May 2023 Technology
Own records only Demis Hassabis Promise 20 Apr 2023 Jeff, Koray, Zoubin, Shane and Demis Hassabis will finalise the composition of the new Google DeepMind Scientific Board in the coming days. Demis Hassabis · Promise · 20 Apr 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Demis Hassabis Factual 20 Apr 2023 Sundar Pichai, Jeff Dean, James Manyika and Demis Hassabis coordinated their efforts over recent months and built a partnership. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 20 Apr 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 6 Apr 2023 No one in government has reached out to Eliezer Yudkowsky in a way suggesting they have the broad contours of the AI risk problem right. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 6 Apr 2023 AI policy and governance
Own records only Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 6 Apr 2023 GPT-4 got further than Eliezer Yudkowsky had expected simply stacking more layers would get. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 6 Apr 2023 AI capabilities
Own records only Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 6 Apr 2023 CFAR (named in the surroundings as the "Center For Applied Rationale") did not get as far as buying an fMRI machine, and it had no funding. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 6 Apr 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual Feb 2023 MIRI did not know in advance that its failed lines of research would fail to pan out. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Feb 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual Feb 2023 Friends of Eliezer Yudkowsky report that OpenAI researchers are very worried about AI risk in private but say they cannot be that worried in public. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Feb 2023 AI policy and governance
Own records only Elon Musk Factual 26 Jan 2023 The Giga Nevada area allocated to 100 GWh of cell production is a small fraction of the size of the area that currently makes about 35 GWh. Elon Musk · Factual · 26 Jan 2023 Technology
Own records only Elon Musk Factual 26 Jan 2023 Tesla's battery cell supply is roughly matched with the 1.8 million cars Musk referred to. Elon Musk · Factual · 26 Jan 2023 Technology
Own records only Elon Musk Factual 26 Jan 2023 Demand for Tesla cars far exceeds production and Tesla is making small price increases as a result. Elon Musk · Factual · 26 Jan 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Elon Musk Factual 26 Jan 2023 Tesla's internal production potential is closer to 2 million vehicles, although it publicly said 1.8 million. Elon Musk · Factual · 26 Jan 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Elon Musk Factual 26 Jan 2023 Tesla's production costs at Berlin and Austin are dropping in line with production growth. Elon Musk · Factual · 26 Jan 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Elon Musk Factual 26 Jan 2023 There are millions of Tesla cars on which full self-driving can be sold at essentially 100% gross margin. Elon Musk · Factual · 26 Jan 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Elon Musk Factual 26 Jan 2023 As of January 2023, Tesla's orders are almost twice its production rate. Elon Musk · Factual · 26 Jan 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Elon Musk Factual 26 Jan 2023 Tesla's year-to-date orders in January 2023 were the strongest in its history. Elon Musk · Factual · 26 Jan 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Elon Musk Factual 26 Jan 2023 For Panasonic's domestic battery manufacturing, Tesla and Panasonic are splitting the value of the credits. Elon Musk · Factual · 26 Jan 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Rodney Brooks Factual 1 Jan 2023 In Brooks's ride in a Cruise driverless vehicle, it worked functionally but drove slowly and avoided any signs of congestion. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2023 Technology
Own records only Rodney Brooks Factual 1 Jan 2023 Brooks's Cruise driverless ride was slower by a factor of two than any human operated ride hailing service. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2023 Technology
Own records only Ray Kurzweil Factual 2023 Kurzweil has been following large language models for almost three years. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · 2023 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Gary Marcus Factual 25 Dec 2022 Marcus knows several people who have tried GPT-4, and all were impressed. Gary Marcus · Factual · 25 Dec 2022 AI capabilities
Own records only Dario Amodei Factual 13 Oct 2022 DeepSeek-V3 was the real innovation and should have made people take notice a month before this statement, and the speaker says that "we" did take notice of it. Dario Amodei · Factual · 13 Oct 2022 AI capabilities
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
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
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
Own records only GiveWell Promise 6 Apr 2022 Each contest entry will be reviewed by at least one GiveWell researcher with substantial experience with its cost-effectiveness analyses. GiveWell · Promise · 6 Apr 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Mark Zuckerberg Factual 24 Mar 2022 Zuckerberg said that a 15-year project he described has six or seven key unknowns, and that multiple teams are trying different approaches to them. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 24 Mar 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Mark Zuckerberg Factual 24 Mar 2022 Each of Meta's company values is coupled with an operational effort. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 24 Mar 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Mark Zuckerberg Factual 24 Mar 2022 Zuckerberg said Meta basically encodes a framework of goals, metrics to track those goals, and countermetrics into all of its teams across the company. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 24 Mar 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Mark Zuckerberg Factual 24 Mar 2022 Meta has a rule that everyone in leadership or management should do at least one standing meeting a week in Workrooms. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 24 Mar 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Tyler Cowen Promise 19 Mar 2022 Tyler Cowen will make an Emergent Ventures donation to Mylovanov, with his team contacting him to ensure secure delivery. Tyler Cowen · Promise · 19 Mar 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Daniela Amodei Factual 4 Mar 2022 She said that she and her colleagues think government has already been starting to fund a lot more academic safety research. Daniela Amodei · Factual · 4 Mar 2022 AI policy and governance
Own records only Daniela Amodei Factual 4 Mar 2022 Daniela and Dario Amodei both donated small amounts to global health organizations, such as malaria prevention groups, while still in school. Daniela Amodei · Factual · 4 Mar 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Daniela Amodei Factual 4 Mar 2022 Anthropic's societal impacts team is about 1.5 people and has been working on AI evaluations. Daniela Amodei · Factual · 4 Mar 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Daniela Amodei Factual 4 Mar 2022 At Anthropic there is no strong distinction between research and engineering: researchers write code and engineers contribute to research. Daniela Amodei · Factual · 4 Mar 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Daniela Amodei Factual 4 Mar 2022 Anthropic's policy team is about 1.5 people as of late 2022. Daniela Amodei · Factual · 4 Mar 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Daniela Amodei Factual 4 Mar 2022 As of November 2022, the organisation Daniela Amodei was speaking for was very bottlenecked on engineering talent. Daniela Amodei · Factual · 4 Mar 2022 Field building and careers
Own records only Daniela Amodei Factual 4 Mar 2022 Anthropic has had a lot of success hiring people accomplished in other fields, especially other technical fields. Daniela Amodei · Factual · 4 Mar 2022 Field building and careers
Own records only Daniela Amodei Factual 4 Mar 2022 Daniela Amodei said she thinks many of Anthropic's best ML and research engineers came from software or infrastructure engineering backgrounds and had not necessarily worked in ML before. Daniela Amodei · Factual · 4 Mar 2022 Field building and careers
Own records only Daniela Amodei Factual 4 Mar 2022 Anthropic staff all have lunch together every day. Daniela Amodei · Factual · 4 Mar 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Daniela Amodei Factual 4 Mar 2022 Anthropic has about 35 employees as of late 2022. Daniela Amodei · Factual · 4 Mar 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Daniela Amodei Factual 4 Mar 2022 Anthropic's PBC structure has little bearing on decisions about productization, deployment and revenue generation, beyond the legal protections discussed. Daniela Amodei · Factual · 4 Mar 2022 Economics and markets
Own records only Elon Musk Factual 27 Jan 2022 Tesla does not have incubators. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Elon Musk Factual 27 Jan 2022 Tesla short-changed its energy business in 2021, with vehicles taking priority over energy. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Bill Ackman Factual 26 Jan 2022 To fund the Netflix purchase, Pershing Square unwound the substantial majority of its interest rate hedge over several days, generating proceeds of $1.25 billion. Bill Ackman · Factual · 26 Jan 2022 Economics and markets
Own records only Bill Ackman Factual 26 Jan 2022 Pershing Square's interest rate hedge notional size was reduced by 80%, its retained hedge term extended, and its dollar investment in hedges reduced by more than 90%. Bill Ackman · Factual · 26 Jan 2022 Economics and markets
Own records only Bill Ackman Factual 26 Jan 2022 Pershing Square began analyzing Netflix in connection with its Universal Music Group investment, before Netflix's stock price declined sharply the previous Friday. Bill Ackman · Factual · 26 Jan 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Daniela Amodei Factual 2022 Anthropic structures its teams with capabilities research as a central pillar and safety research wrapping around every project. Daniela Amodei · Factual · 2022 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Tyler Cowen Factual 29 Dec 2021 Tyler Cowen and his team did not foresee the Delta variant when making their 2021 predictions, as many others also did not. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 29 Dec 2021 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Tyler Cowen Factual 29 Dec 2021 Tyler Cowen saw about 30 movies in a theater in 2021. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 29 Dec 2021 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Bill Ackman Factual 19 Aug 2021 The NYSE has offered to work closely with PSTH and the SEC to accelerate the necessary rule change for SPARC warrants. Bill Ackman · Factual · 19 Aug 2021 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Jeff Bezos Factual 15 Apr 2021 Amazon estimates total customer value creation in 2020 (AWS plus consumer) at $164 billion. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 15 Apr 2021 Economics and markets
Own records only Jeff Bezos Promise 15 Apr 2021 Amazon will invest more than $300 million in safety projects in 2021, including an initial $66 million for forklift and industrial vehicle collision-prevention technology. Jeff Bezos · Promise · 15 Apr 2021 AI, the economy and work
Own records only Jeff Bezos Factual 15 Apr 2021 In 2020 Amazon employees earned $80 billion, plus $11 billion in benefits and payroll taxes, totalling $91 billion. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 15 Apr 2021 AI, the economy and work
Own records only Jeff Bezos Factual 15 Apr 2021 82% of coaching at Amazon is positive, provided to employees meeting or exceeding expectations. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 15 Apr 2021 AI, the economy and work
Own records only Jeff Bezos Factual 15 Apr 2021 In Amazon surveys, 94% of fulfillment center employees say they would recommend Amazon as a place to work. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 15 Apr 2021 AI, the economy and work
Own records only Jeff Bezos Factual 15 Apr 2021 Customers complete 28% of Amazon purchases in three minutes or less, and half of all purchases in under 15 minutes. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 15 Apr 2021 Economics and markets
Own records only Jeff Bezos Factual 15 Apr 2021 From 2019 to 2020 Amazon's overall MSDs decreased by 32%, and MSDs resulting in time away from work decreased by more than half. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 15 Apr 2021 AI, the economy and work
Own records only Scott Alexander Factual 14 Feb 2021 Scott Alexander was warned by people "in the know" that the NYT would publish something as negative as possible about him once it had an excuse. Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Scott Alexander Factual 14 Feb 2021 Scott Alexander met Peter Thiel once at a party, long before Trump was in the news, and exchanged about two sentences with him. Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Elon Musk Factual 27 Jan 2021 Musk said that very few of Tesla's customers in China had selected the FSD option, which he thought was maybe as low as 1% or 2%, and that this was much lower than the rest of the world. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 Economics and markets
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
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
Own records only Warren Buffett Factual 15 Dec 2020 Buffett said he has met many small business people through "the Goldman Sachs program." Warren Buffett · Factual · 15 Dec 2020 Economics and markets
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
Own records only Ray Dalio Factual 25 Oct 2020 Fixed income exposure in the all-weather portfolio approach has declined a lot as interest rates approached zero. Ray Dalio · Factual · 25 Oct 2020 Economics and markets
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
Own records only GiveWell Factual 28 May 2020 GiveWell staff may work remotely and GiveWell accommodates flexible work schedules, including flexible hours. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 Field building and careers
Own records only GiveWell Factual 28 May 2020 Many of GiveWell's successful past hires came through the community of people who engage with its work. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 Field building and careers
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
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
Own records only GiveWell Factual 28 May 2020 GiveWell made limited progress in 2019 in assessing public health regulation, a relatively new domain for it. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 Their own work or organisation
Own records only GiveWell Promise 28 May 2020 After completing its alcohol policy grant investigation, GiveWell will reflect on what it has learned about public health regulation before deciding whether to do additional work in this area. GiveWell · Promise · 28 May 2020 Their own work or organisation
Own records only GiveWell Factual 28 May 2020 The GiveWell post on 2020 plans does not include a complete accounting of everything GiveWell plans to do in 2020. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 Their own work or organisation
Own records only GiveWell Factual 28 May 2020 GiveWell's plans laid out internally at the beginning of 2020 were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 Their own work or organisation
Own records only GiveWell Factual 28 May 2020 In early 2020 GiveWell conducted research that led it to prioritize alcohol policy and pesticide suicide prevention and to deprioritize air pollution, tobacco and road safety. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 Their own work or organisation
Own records only GiveWell Factual 28 May 2020 GiveWell's marketing team is examining how users engage with the GiveWell website and where they may become confused or misinterpret its work. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 Their own work or organisation
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Bill Ackman

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“Pershing Square has 40 employees.”

Bill Ackman, letter to PSH shareholders 2024 Bill Ackman's Pershing Square 2023 Annual Letter: A Review (GuruFocus)

Pershing Square has 40 employees.

Own records only Only the person's or their organisation's own records speak to it, so it is not scored.

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

Reasoning

Employee headcount is an internal count, though possibly stated in public documents; mainly the firm's own record.

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Bill Ackman, “Pershing Square has 40 employees.” (said 2024). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_a611396e6b8c, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a611396e6b8c

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