The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

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why aren't all 5 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

Assertion Contradicted
Chamath: Agent-written code caused three or four SEV-1 outages at AWS
“Why does Amazon issue an edict that says you cannot use this stuff inside of AWS unless a human now reviews and approves it? Because what happened? They had three or four SEV-ONE faults from a bunch of code that was written by agents that brought down AWS.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 34:14 Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Chamath: Amazon's advertising business will surpass AWS within three years
“It'll be bigger than AWS in three years at this rate.”
Chamath Palihapitiya May 1, 2021 ▶ 1:14:18 E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
Prediction Held up
Huang: AWS will purchase 1 million Nvidia chips in coming years
“In the case of AWS, I think they just announced, I think it was yesterday, that they're gonna buy a million chips in the next couple years.”
Jensen Huang Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 44:20 Jensen Huang: Nvidia's Future, Physical AI, Rise of the Agent, Inference Explosion, AI PR Crisis
Assertion Partly supported
Friedberg compares revenue run rates and growth for AWS, Azure, and GCP
“AWS has a hundred twenty-four billion dollar revenue run rate. Microsoft, one hundred twenty billion, and Google Cloud, fifty four billion. But AWS, which is slightly larger than Microsoft, is only growing 17% year over year. Microsoft's 26% year over year, an…”
David Friedberg Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 30:03 NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
Assertion Supported
Calacanis notes recent AWS outage crippled 2,000 companies for 15 hours
“Monday, massive AWS outage, 2000 companies, four million users unable to function on the internet for half a day, 15 hours, 20 hours.”
Jason Calacanis Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 28:53 NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
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