MIT

8 statements across 8 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 21, 2020 by David Friedberg · across every show →

Everything said about MIT, oldest first

May 21, 2020
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: MIT study identified subway as NYC's primary COVID vector
“Great paper out of MIT, by the way, that shows how this happened on the subway. Identified the subway as kind of the primary vector that drove transmission in New York city.”
David Friedberg May 21, 2020 ▶ 28:53 E3: Modern Cold War, politicizing the pandemic & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg
May 3, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Most foundational CRISPR patents are held by Broad Institute
“The main original foundational patents, which are now mostly held after a lot of litigation by the Broad Institute, which is, you know, there's this kind of joint patent arrangement with the Broad and MIT and Harvard.”
David Friedberg May 3, 2024 ▶ 1:03:19 Sheryl Sandberg, plus open-source AI gene editing explained
Aug 23, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: Asian American MIT enrollment rose to 47% post-affirmative action
“Asian Americans have gone from 41% to 47%, and those gains came on a percentage basis from a decline in the number of Black and Latino students coming in.”
Jason Calacanis Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 15:19 Massive jobs revision, Kamala wealth tax, polls vs prediction markets, end of race-based admissions
Sep 27, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: MIT-Microsoft framework achieves 94% planning accuracy on LLM benchmarks
“And they were able to achieve planning accuracy of up to 94% on some standardized benchmarks that are used for chain of thought reasoning and planning Using LLMs. This is a 66% absolute improvement over baseline models.”
David Friedberg Sep 27, 2025 ▶ 1:00:38 H-1B Shakeup, Kimmel Apology, Autism Causes, California Hate Speech Law
Sep 29, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Eli Lilly employs 4,200 PhD scientists, matching MIT and Harvard combined
“We currently have about 4200 PhD scientists at Lilly. By the way, it's about the same as MIT and Harvard combined.”
Dave Ricks Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 10:37 Inside the GLP-1 Gold Rush: Eli Lilly CEO on New Breakthroughs, Addiction & Mental Health, Pricing
Dec 22, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Bessent cites MIT study blaming budget deficits for 42% of recent inflation
“And there, there's a very good study from MIT that's come out that shows, you know, in a way that only PhDs at MIT can be very precise. 42% of the great inflation was caused by the budget deficit. Another 17% was caused by the increase in inflation expectation…”
Scott Bessent Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 31:33 Scott Bessent: Fixing the Fed, Tariffs for National Security, Solving Affordability in 2026
May 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Pruning neural networks can cut AI inference costs 10x
“This paper showed that you could actually reduce the size of these networks by 90%, and Get the same accuracy out by pruning very large models down to smaller models, and then you can make a selection on which model to run for inference. And by doing this, you…”
David Friedberg May 1, 2026 ▶ 15:09 OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
Sep 4, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: MIT study found 83% of LLM essay writers could not quote their work
“What happened was the LLM user showed severe deficits, quote, in memory and essay ownership, with 83% being unable to quote from the essays they had just written.”
Jason Calacanis Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 1:15:47 GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
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