why aren't all 8 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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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dirac CEO: Degradation of US industrial base will cause societal collapse
“If that degradation continues, it will eventually result in collapse, and with that, our way of life.”
Assertion Partly supported
Ehrenstein: The average American manufacturing worker is in their early 50s
“There has generally been like an aging out of the American industrial base. The modern American manufacturers around like early fifties. And because of that, a lot of folks who actually knew how to do things correctly and well, and took pride in that work are …”
Insight
Dirac CEO: Attracting protesters is proof that your work actually matters
“If you didn't have protesters, it would mean that what you're doing doesn't matter.”
Assertion Contradicted
Ehrenstein: There are 2.5 million open manufacturing jobs
“We have, I think, two and a half million. It's like we have two and a half million open jobs in manufacturing.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ehrenstein: Dirac automatically generates 80% to 90% of assembly instructions
“So we'll take a CAD file or a three D model of an assembly as an input, figure out the assembly sequence automatically, and then automatically generate 80, 90% of the assembly instructions for that system that we're trying to assemble.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ehrenstein: BuildOS cuts work instruction planning from months to hours
“Instead of taking like weeks or months to do your production planning, you can do a couple minutes, couple hours, couple days, tops, making the work instruction.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dirac CEO: Retiring workers' lost tribal knowledge forces manufacturing facility shutdowns
“When they retire, they take all that tribal knowledge with them about how those things actually fit together at their facility. And so that is causing a lot of really cool companies to unfortunately shut products down or even shut their facility down.”
Insight
Dirac CEO: AI in manufacturing requires structuring tribal knowledge first
“In order to actually use AI in an effective way in manufacturing, you have to lay down the structure first. You have to collect that tribal knowledge.”