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Self-modern, post-parody

We recorded 3 claims from this post. 3 can’t be checked. 3 more are held. Read the post at its source.

Claims from this post (3)

In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.

  1. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    Observation

    “And when it is not satirizing itself, big tech is regularly and predictably falling on its face, the same way, over and over again, with ever larger amounts of money.”

    Our reading: Big tech AI efforts are regularly and predictably failing in the same way, with ever larger amounts of money spent.

    No horizon

  2. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    Observation

    “Consumers are starting to catch on:”

    Our reading: Consumers are starting to catch on, apparently to the AI failures and hype the post has just described, though the post does not say exactly what they are catching on to.

    No horizon

    Qualifier: starting to (early stage, not widespread)

  3. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    Forecast

    “in which I argued for the more optimistic view on AI (viz., that even in the worst case it probably won’t lead to every single human on the planet dying).”

    Our reading: Even in the worst case, AI probably will not lead to every human on the planet dying.

    No horizon

    Qualifier: even in the worst case

Held from this post (3)

These records did not pass every check, so nothing about them is published. Held is not a finding.