why aren't all 13 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:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Not checkable as stated
McGuire: Every human interaction on Roblox is monitored by technology
“Every communication between humans is monitored, monitored by technology.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
McGuire: AI will take decades before its full impact is felt
“The core technology has decades before the full impact is felt.”
Assertion Contradicted
McGuire: Roblox is the only platform allowing instant, unapproved 3D publishing
“And so it's the only platform where you can do for three D what today you can do for micro blogging, like text or images, which is one person without some sort of app store approval, without becoming a publisher, or that's, you can go and create something that…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
McGuire: Roblox AI Code Assist has suggested 300M characters of code
“Three hundred million characters of code have been suggested by this tool.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
McGuire: Controlling generative AI will be AI's main challenge for 2–3 years
“I think the big challenge that the field is facing probably in the next two or three years that we've been focusing on is how do you control generative AI?”
Assertion Partly supported
McGuire: Roblox has around 70 million daily active users
“We have about seventy million daily active users”
Assertion Supported
McGuire: Roblox's fastest growing segment is 17-to-24-year-olds
“And our fastest growing segment is actually 17 to 24 year olds,”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
McGuire: Roblox operates roughly 100,000 servers on custom infrastructure
“We have about a 100,000 servers that we maintain with our own infrastructure running our own software stack on those.”
Assertion Partly supported
Roblox releases new client software to all players every Thursday
“Every single Thursday, we ship a new client to every single player around the world, releasing new features new access, new security mechanisms.”
Assertion Contradicted
McGuire: Roblox releases a new AI feature every couple of weeks
“Every, every couple of weeks we're releasing a new AI powered feature.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
McGuire: Roblox operates 17 edge data centers globally
“We have edge data centers around the world. I think we're up to 17 of those”
Assertion Partly supported
McGuire: Roblox employs around 3,000 total workforce members
“So the company as a whole is about 3000 people at this point.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
McGuire: Almost all Roblox employees are engineers or engineering-adjacent
“And it's heavily engineering dominated. So almost all of that is engineers or engineer associated professions.”