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.
why aren't all 7 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
SpaceX and Rocket Lab are the only launch companies succeeding, says Vance
“There's like space X and rocket lab and they're the only two have figured it out and they figured it out on a scale that like nobody else has even got close to yet.”
Traditional media subtly shapes writers' voices without them realizing, says Vance
“As you get into more traditional media, there's a lot of fantastic stuff that comes with it and you learn a lot, but you don't, I, you don't fully kind of realize how your voice is getting shaped by the platform until, until I started this”
Ashlee Vance is writing a book on OpenAI; movie rights sold
“I'm doing a book on open AI and AI more broadly. And I've been working on that for like 18 months and penguin random house is going to publish that and sold a movie rights to it already.”
Figure made robotic progress far beyond expectations, says Vance
“When I went to figure They had made so much progress in 18 months to two years, way beyond what I would have thought.”
Tesla Optimus made incredible progress after initial smoke and mirrors, says Vance
“Optimus, you know, to be honest, like when I first saw Optimus, I thought it was like very heavy on the smoke and mirrors and like they've made incredible progress as well.”
Ashlee Vance left Bloomberg due to lack of speed and flexibility
“I just kind of like reached a point where couldn't really move fast enough for all the different things that I wanted to do within the confines of Bloomberg. I felt like there was Kind of lacking some flexibility, a whole bunch of things.”