Sam Arbesman
Venture Partner, Lux Capital · 1 appearance on the record.
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Sam Arbesman is a complexity scientist and Venture Partner at Lux Capital. He is the author of books including The Half-Life of Facts and Overcomplicated, and serves as an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University.
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2 predictions · 2 assertions · 2 opinions · 6 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.
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answered every one of 22 assessed questions directly
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261 words/min while actually speaking · 13.1 um and uh per 1k words
Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,669 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →
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Everything Sam Arbesman said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| 20VC: Lux Capital's Scientist-In-Residence on Why We Cannot Just Be Specialists Today, The | Oct 18, 2017 | 15m |