why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
▮▮▮▮▮ certainty ·
▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levchin: AI agents may finally replace the credit card interface
“This notion of sort of the best user interface ever created is the credit card. This may actually be finally up for renegotiation because agents are in fact smarter than pieces of plastic and even pieces of plastic with rewritable chips.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levchin: Modern fintechs will replace traditional banks for direct deposits
“There's definitely going to be several probably winners that take the spot in your brain that belongs to Wells Fargo for your parents, the sort of a place where your money goes into a direct deposit account of some sort that takes care of your billing mostly a…”
Prediction Held up
Levchin: Affirm does not charge late fees to consumers
“And if you're late, we're not going to charge you a late fee because that's our fault. We didn't remind you correctly. And when we made the underwriting decision, we made the choice to take you on as a risk and that that's, we're going to have to stick with.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levchin: Adoption curve of autonomous AI commerce will likely be slow
“I think the adoption curve is probably going to be fairly slow, and these things are always sort of easy to predict to be very slow, and sort of the usual adage as well, slowly at first, not always once.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levchin: Traditional banks will not exist in their current form soon
“So I actually think banks in a few years will probably not exist the way they are today.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levchin: Transactional financial services will remain permanently unbundled
“I can see that being permanently deconstructed into this extremely efficient, very thin, once transactional service, and then you're done, and you feel very good about sort of satisfying your need.”