opinion claim
In the speaker's view, people in 2000 would not have expected a person with relatively limited resources to advance spaceflight two to five times faster than NASA.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
In their words
The transcript segments this claim was taken from
“Same issue with like, let's say, Elon Musk and SpaceX.”
“I think in the year 2000, we would not have thought that somebody could move two times, five times faster than NASA with pretty limited resources.”Play from 59:08Report a misattribution
85%how strongly it was put, not whether it is true
70%importance to the conversation
90%confidence the claim was read correctly