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24 statements about Nature, every show

MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Socher: Nature and Science desk rejected AI economics papers
“When we submitted these papers and two-level reinforcement learning systems to nature and science, they just desk rejected them.”
Richard Socher Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 46:07 When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Weinstein: Nature journal did not adopt peer review until the 1970s
“And by the way, not peer reviewed until the seventies.”
Eric Weinstein Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 28:07 Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Nature survey found 6% of scientist readers backed Trump
“Six percent of the readers polled voted for president Trump. 85% or something, Kamala Harris.”
David Friedberg Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 28:10 Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Nature poll found 86% of scientists backed Harris vs 6% Trump
“They polled 2000 of their readers, which are all scientists. 86% supported Kamala Harris in the election, according to the poll, and Donald Trump polled at six percent.”
David Friedberg Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 2:39 Inside Trump's Science Agenda: Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China w/ Michael Kratsios
SOURCERY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ben Lamm: AI will enable a real-time digital twin of nature
“My hottest take right now is that I think AI is gonna converge, and, ah, we are going to build a digital twin of nature, and just like we have prediction models for, like, everything from, like, missile defense to, ah, tsunamis and earthquakes, we're gonna hav…”
Ben Lamm Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 6:07 Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Open · timeframe May 2029
Alpha high schooler will publish as lead researcher in Nature journal
“We have a student who's going to be published in nature. She will be the first school student as a lead researcher published in nature.”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 58:10 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: Alpha High School Student Submits Paper to Nature as Lead Researcher
“No high school student has ever been the lead researcher on something published in nature. And we have an alpha kid who's submitted.”
Joe Liemandt Mar 31, 2026 ▶ 1:27:36 Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Manyika: Google demonstrated first useful quantum computation for molecular spin dynamics
“Last year we were able to show probably the first useful computation. These are quantum echoes results. It was a big enough deal made the cover of nature, which is great. Our teams are excited about that. What that showed was an actual useful computation for f…”
James Manyika Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 39:52 How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika
Fried: Designers Should Draw Color Inspiration From Nature, Not Design Books
“If you want to find great colors, look at a bird. Don't look at a book. Like, look, look, look at a leaf, right? Look at the ocean. Look, look, look, look, go to a tide pool, and just look at the colors in that tide pool.”
Jason Fried Feb 15, 2026 ▶ 1:11:57 Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
LATENT SPACE Assertion Supported
Li: Evolution spent 540M years on spatial intelligence versus 0.5M on language
“And in nature, you know, it took five hundred, forty million years to optimize perception and spatial intelligence and language in the most Generous estimation of language development is probably half a million years.”
Fei-Fei Li Nov 25, 2025 ▶ 48:47 After LLMs: Spatial Intelligence and World Models — Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson, World Labs
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Partly supported
Google claims first verifiable practical quantum application advantage over classical computers
“Our this announcement of yesterday is a paper in nature that that actually shows the first verifiable practical application advantage of a quantum computer over classical computer.”
Yossi Matias Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 4:51 Google Research Head Yossi Matias: AI For Cancer Research, Quantum's Progress, Researchers' Future
Banka: Humans cannot save nature; climate action is purely self-preservation
“I don't think we can save nature. Nature doesn't need your input. Nature will figure out its own course. Whatever you're trying to do is for your own selfish reason to save yourself.”
Amit Banka Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 45:12 Ep15: Boardrooms to BioDiversity: Building with Purpose ft. Amit Banka
SOURCERY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shadbolt: 14 chip and optical companies sought PsiQuantum's breakthrough material
“When we published that paper in nature, I think it was something like 14 regular optical networking and semiconductor companies rang up global foundries asking how they could get access to that material because it is basically the strongest optical material kn…”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:28:18 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
NO PRIORS Assertion Partly supported
Nadler: Medical knowledge doubled every 50 years in 1950, 73 days today
“The rate of doubling of medical knowledge as measured by citations in 1950 was every 50 years. So every 50 years the number of total citations of peer-reviewed medical literature doubled. Today it's every 73 days by an estimate in the British Medical Journal a…”
Daniel Nadler Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 23:06 No Priors Ep. 130 | With OpenEvidence Founder Daniel Nadler
SOURCERY Assertion Supported
Btaiche: Fuse built world's highest pulse power system and published in Nature
“We've built the words highest pulse power system ever called Titan. We fired that for the first time in March of this year and we live streamed it and Publish the results in Nature.”
JC Btaiche Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 25:25 Nuclear Race to Power Superintelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Supported
Btaiche: Fuse partnered with Los Alamos and published pulsed neutron paper
“We also built, and a couple weeks ago, published in Nature another paper on the most efficient neutron delivery system and pulsed neutron system that we also published in Nature, and more timely, just yesterday on July 16th, on the 80th anniversary of the Trin…”
JC Btaiche Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 25:37 Nuclear Race to Power Superintelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Study shows fat cells retain epigenetic memory after weight loss
“In humans, they basically took five individuals that were obese and lost more than 25% BMI. And they looked at the epigenome, they looked at the markers of what genes are upregulated and downregulated before and after they lost the weight. After they lost the …”
David Friedberg Nov 23, 2024 ▶ 1:02:45 DOGE unveils a roadmap, Unlocking GDP Growth, WW3 escalation, Fat cell memory
Pal: Access to physical nature will trade at a premium
“I think nature probably trades at a premium, which is an interesting concept that I've been kind of getting through my mind with this.”
Raoul Pal Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 42:25 Investor Psychology & Trading on the Future With Raoul Pal
Stephenson: Nature serves as a library of pre-tested design solutions
“All we have to do is peel back the layers and find out how they've managed to make something successful because obviously in, in, in nature, something's not well designed. It won't stick around for very long. So there are solutions in nature, which are surpris…”
Frank Stephenson Feb 18, 2020 ▶ 1:27:58 #76 Frank Stephenson: Pushing the Limits of Innovation
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Partly supported
Markham: Two hours in nature boosts immune T-cells by 50 percent
“When you spend two hours out in nature, your immune system is about 50% more effective. The number of T cells, killer cells, you have, it's like 50% more for several weeks afterwards.”
Dr. Laura Markham Feb 19, 2019 ▶ 1:14:09 #52 Dr. Laura Markham: Peaceful Parenting with
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Walaliade: AI models outperform human physicians in top 2017 medical journals
“Two years ago, there weren't that many examples of prominent journals publishing AI and healthcare pieces where it was, you know, shown to work in healthcare context, and now it feels like every month there's a new nature paper or something coming out where, y…”
Malinka Walaliyadde Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:52 a16z Podcast | Taking the Pulse on Bio
a16z Insight
James Rogers: Breakthrough technology will come from nature, not isolated invention
“And the way that we are going to be able to build new things, we believe, is not by Trying to come up with entirely new solutions on our own, but by rather figuring out how to ask nature the questions, which it has already spent, it's already got a 3.8 billion…”
James Rogers Dec 24, 2018 ▶ 2:37 Nature as Technology
Luís Batalha: Open journals can match Science and Nature in prestige
“And I think it's totally possible that these open journals get to a point where they have you know, a reputation like science or nature. As long as you convince people to, you know, publish their papers on these journals, it's, there's nothing about science or…”
Luís Batalha Jul 6, 2018 ▶ 1:06:17 Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator
Luís Batalha: Famous tenured scientists are required to legitimize open journals
“It's probably the way to get these open, open journals to be as popular as nature or science is to convince Really, people that already have a tenure are really famous scientists to publish on those journals. You already have your position. You already have yo…”
Luís Batalha Jul 6, 2018 ▶ 1:08:46 Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator

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