Where we are most likely to be wrong
Deterministic lists as of snapshot 27790 under ledger-default@0.3.0. Each entry shows what would most change it.
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low coverage scored (695 of 500 kept)
provisional (1071 of 500 kept)
| Claim | State | Detail | What would most change this |
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| Global ageing figures understate the effect in China and Europe because they are averaged with India and parts of Africa that still have high birth rates. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The United States is largely insulated from the ageing shock because it receives large numbers of working-age immigrants and few aged over 65. | Unresolved | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Unresolved to Contradicted. |
| More than 150,000 people die on Earth each day. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The Club of Rome's Limits to Growth, published in the early 1970s, rested on the false premise that humans would overcrowd the planet's scarce surface area and thereby degrade living conditions for everyone. | Contradicted | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Contradicted to Leans supported. |
| People should have more children, and building fully integrated childcare that lowers the cost of raising them is the single biggest thing anyone could do for humanity. | Not assessed | {"provisional":true} | |
| One of the biggest risks in the year following early September 2026 is that people lose their sense of agency. | Not assessed | {"provisional":true} | |
| As of early September 2026, no kill switch was built into the open source AI models then publicly available. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Treating an AI agent's workaround as a failure of alignment, when the agent is doing what a human would do, raises concerns of cruelty toward the agent. | Not assessed | {"provisional":true} | |
| Speaking on the Moonshots podcast in early September 2026, Dave Blundin said the present was the most important moment in human history. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| Demis Hassabis shared half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing AlphaFold2, an AI system for protein structure prediction. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| At Tesla's October 2024 Cybercab unveiling, Elon Musk said the vehicle would cost under $30,000. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Trump fired the Kennedy Center’s board when he took control in February 2025. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| Trump appointed himself chairman of the Kennedy Center in February 2025. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| The Kennedy Center had total assets of about $691 million immediately before Trump took control in February 2025. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The Kennedy Center had an endowment of about $163 million when Trump took control in February 2025. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The Kennedy Center is now broke. | Unresolved | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Unresolved to Supported. |
| Trump’s takeover caused the Kennedy Center’s current financial crisis. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported. |
| Van Jones made the remarks attributed to him in the meme during a December 2024 interview with Chris Cillizza. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The meme compresses the interview into a continuous Van Jones quotation even though Chris Cillizza interjected between 'the House' and 'the Supreme Court.' | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| Van Jones was a CNN political commentator in 2024. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| More than 26,000 builders registered for the Build with Gemini XPRIZE. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| Nikolai Fedorov advocated universal physical resurrection of the dead through future science and technology. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| OpenAI's September 8, 2026 initial Navier–Stokes announcement said it could not rule out de-identified product usage data improving its models. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Future Vision XPRIZE received more than 2,500 film trailers and treatments, narrowed them to 65 semifinalists and five finalists who will screen trailers at Moonshots LIVE. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| John Smart's transcension hypothesis proposes that advanced civilizations move toward computationally dense “inner space,” which could help explain the Fermi paradox. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
independence unreviewed (1069 of 500 kept)
| Claim | State | Detail | What would most change this |
|---|---|---|---|
| More than 150,000 people die on Earth each day. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The Club of Rome's Limits to Growth, published in the early 1970s, rested on the false premise that humans would overcrowd the planet's scarce surface area and thereby degrade living conditions for everyone. | Contradicted | {"independence_unreviewed":8} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Contradicted to Leans supported. |
| People should have more children, and building fully integrated childcare that lowers the cost of raising them is the single biggest thing anyone could do for humanity. | Not assessed | {"independence_unreviewed":4} | |
| One of the biggest risks in the year following early September 2026 is that people lose their sense of agency. | Not assessed | {"independence_unreviewed":2} | |
| As of early September 2026, no kill switch was built into the open source AI models then publicly available. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Treating an AI agent's workaround as a failure of alignment, when the agent is doing what a human would do, raises concerns of cruelty toward the agent. | Not assessed | {"independence_unreviewed":1} | |
| Speaking on the Moonshots podcast in early September 2026, Dave Blundin said the present was the most important moment in human history. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":4} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| Demis Hassabis shared half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing AlphaFold2, an AI system for protein structure prediction. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":6} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| At Tesla's October 2024 Cybercab unveiling, Elon Musk said the vehicle would cost under $30,000. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":6} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Trump fired the Kennedy Center’s board when he took control in February 2025. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":4} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| Trump appointed himself chairman of the Kennedy Center in February 2025. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":6} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| The Kennedy Center had total assets of about $691 million immediately before Trump took control in February 2025. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":4} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The Kennedy Center had an endowment of about $163 million when Trump took control in February 2025. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":3} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The Kennedy Center is now broke. | Unresolved | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Unresolved to Supported. |
| Trump’s takeover caused the Kennedy Center’s current financial crisis. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported. |
| Van Jones made the remarks attributed to him in the meme during a December 2024 interview with Chris Cillizza. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":4} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The meme compresses the interview into a continuous Van Jones quotation even though Chris Cillizza interjected between 'the House' and 'the Supreme Court.' | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":2} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| Van Jones was a CNN political commentator in 2024. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":3} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| More than 26,000 builders registered for the Build with Gemini XPRIZE. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":1} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| Nikolai Fedorov advocated universal physical resurrection of the dead through future science and technology. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":3} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| OpenAI's September 8, 2026 initial Navier–Stokes announcement said it could not rule out de-identified product usage data improving its models. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":3} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Future Vision XPRIZE received more than 2,500 film trailers and treatments, narrowed them to 65 semifinalists and five finalists who will screen trailers at Moonshots LIVE. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":5} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| John Smart's transcension hypothesis proposes that advanced civilizations move toward computationally dense “inner space,” which could help explain the Fermi paradox. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":4} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The Navier–Stokes equations describe fluid motion and are used in aircraft design, weather forecasting, and the study of blood flow. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":4} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Emad Mostaque's Champion proposal allocates 10% of a local AI and robotics company's equity to residents under 21 and issues additional equity to children born later. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":4} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
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