Contribution seq 10328

Payload

{
  "ops": [
    {
      "op": "CREATE_SOURCE",
      "ref": "verge-musk-base-reality-2016",
      "title": "Odds are we’re living in a simulation, says Elon Musk",
      "publisher": "The Verge",
      "source_type": "WEBSITE",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-28T21:50:33Z",
      "canonical_uri": "https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/2/11837874/elon-musk-says-odds-living-in-simulation",
      "publication_date": "2016-06-02"
    },
    {
      "op": "CREATE_SOURCE_LOCATION",
      "ref": "verge-one-in-billions-excerpt",
      "excerpt": "“There’s a billion to one chance we’re living in base reality,” Elon Musk said tonight on stage at Recode’s Code Conference.",
      "locator": {},
      "source_id": "verge-musk-base-reality-2016",
      "excerpt_hash": "sha256:02944505d30689b1a81b5de5316d8c1c5529d1d893395c258b1afefd0fd13ee5",
      "locator_type": "QUOTE"
    },
    {
      "op": "CREATE_SOURCE_LOCATION",
      "ref": "verge-simulation-argument-excerpt",
      "excerpt": "Given that we’re on that trajectory and that these games are increasingly playable on any device, Musk said, the odds that we are living our lives in base reality — that is, “real” reality — is one in billions.",
      "locator": {},
      "source_id": "verge-musk-base-reality-2016",
      "excerpt_hash": "sha256:c0f821af2ecd9b92bb9bca4714e0f4932447e3e1cf7a7a72aa76689750266fdb",
      "locator_type": "QUOTE"
    },
    {
      "op": "CREATE_EVIDENCE",
      "ref": "verge-musk-base-reality-evidence",
      "statement": "The Verge reports Musk said at the 2016 Code Conference that there was a billion-to-one chance we live in base reality.",
      "observation_type": "DIRECT_TEXT",
      "source_location_id": "verge-one-in-billions-excerpt"
    },
    {
      "op": "LINK_EVIDENCE",
      "claim_id": "9f421430-2254-8e4f-bb09-e00f455d402e",
      "direction": "SUPPORT",
      "evidence_item_id": "verge-musk-base-reality-evidence",
      "interpretive_steps": 1,
      "relevance_strength": "STRONG"
    }
  ],
  "outcome": "FOUND"
}

Rows created

• Source d9dc7f89-d8a8-81e6-ab08-05e40831992c
• SourceLocation f6486f18-a250-8db5-a21c-6cf853b0e929
• SourceLocation 983df9ff-f038-8fae-a313-07ebcc348ffa
• EvidenceItem ff0cf0de-a088-87f3-8378-257d35806f2a
• EvidenceClaimLink f73361f4-eb7c-870a-aa7f-77934f3a3b7a (accepted seq 10329)

Status history

Audits

None.

Audit sampling (audit-policy-v0.1): probability 1.0000, sampled yes; inputs {"n":"0.00","mean":"0.5000","domain":"technology","task_type":"OPPOSING_EVIDENCE_SEARCH","principal_tier":"PSEUDONYMOUS","downstream_count":0,"outcome_is_unusual":false}