Straight Answers

An LLM assessed 456 question → answer exchanges, the host's own answers included. Speaker names were hidden during assessment. Each exchange was marked answered, partly, redirected or not addressed, with a quote as its source. Every exchange below is timestamped and plays. How it works →

These readings are observational: the transcript shows whether the question was answered directly, whatever the reason. It is an AI reading of a public exchange, never a claim about intent, and the tape is one tap away on every row. full disclaimer →

27%of assessed questions not answered directly · how? → 45playable exchanges ↓ 0with none identified → 105people measured →

Every one of the 122 people on the record is accounted for: 1 carry a full rate (8 or more assessed questions on raw tape), 104 more have their questions counted (27 of them with at least one not answered directly; too few raw questions for a fair percentage, edited feed included), and the remaining 17 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.

Nikesh Arora 1 of 6 assessed questions

No needle for Nikesh Arora: fewer than 8 assessed questions on raw tape, and a percentage on a sample that small would mislead. Their counts are real: 1 not answered directly in 6 assessed questions.

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Nikesh Arora: every exchange, playable

The question Nikhil asked, then the AI assessment note from the answer. Tap to play the moment. Not addressed = the question was not engaged; redirected = acknowledged, then steered elsewhere.

Redirected ▶ 28:55

“How do we articulate what the unknown problem is? I would assume that humans from the beginning of time have wanted to differentiate through many different means, capitalism and intelligence.”

answered: “I don't know the answer to that question, but I think the bigger question is”

All speakers

All 1 people with 8 or more assessed questions on raw tape. Click a name to see their exchanges. highest rate none identified small samples

Person Not answered directly (%) Redirected + not addressed Questions Argument clarity /5
Nikhil Kamath Co-founder, Zerodha 27% 6 22 3.6

Percentages come from raw unedited recordings only: produced podcast audio has tangents and stumbles cut in the edit, which moves the speaker up by about 12 percentile points. The small-sample counts include the produced feed. This is a reading of a transcript. It is not an accusation of dishonesty, and there are many good reasons not to answer a question directly (confidential numbers, unreleased products, someone else's news to break).

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