America

part of Americas

6 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 17, 2021 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

Everything said about America, oldest first

Jan 17, 2021 negative
Assertion Supported
Evans: US text bot hype was fueled by false WeChat narratives
“And there was a moment three and four years ago when everyone in America was very excited about bots, text bots, and there was this whole narrative, well, that's how WeChat works, and WeChat's got hundreds of millions of users, so this must be a thing. It turn…”
Benedict Evans Jan 17, 2021 ▶ 4:16 Two Europeans talk about China
Jan 17, 2021 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2041
Evans: China will match US per capita GDP within decades
“China is going to have the same GDP per capita as America, more or less, at some point in the next couple of decades.”
Benedict Evans Jan 17, 2021 ▶ 22:53 Two Europeans talk about China
Mar 7, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Evans: Russian daily jet losses exceed US losses in entire Gulf War
“Just today, I think the Russians have had half a dozen jets shot down, which is more than America had in the whole Gulf War.”
Benedict Evans Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 28:35 Ukraine
May 26, 2022 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Evans: There will probably be a US political panic over Shein
“There hasn't been a Xi in panic yet, actually, even though it's another Chinese thing that every American teenager is using. But there probably will be. I don't know what form that will take.”
Benedict Evans May 26, 2022 ▶ 30:47 Shein, TikTok and Netflix - thinking about limits
May 26, 2022 positive
Opinion
Brown: Shein excels at localizing regional fashion catalog styles
“Shein has been very good at localizing its content and giving people exactly the type of styles, whether you're based in America, whether you're in Europe, etc. So if it doesn't, I think they've done very well in not making people feel like they're buying some…”
Toni Cowan-Brown May 26, 2022 ▶ 30:56 Shein, TikTok and Netflix - thinking about limits
Mar 3, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Brown: Stable Diffusion generated 7% female doctors, compared to 39% in reality
“And with the doctors one, the reality was that 39% of doctors in America are women, but in the stable diffusion results, it was only seven percent.”
Toni Cowan-Brown Mar 3, 2024 ▶ 8:08 Google Gemini and AI bias
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