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davegoldblatt
marcus-claims-dataset
Python2026–2026
davegoldblatt / marcus-claims-dataset

marcus-claims-dataset

Systematic extraction and analysis of every testable AI claim Gary Marcus made on his Substack (2022-2026). Dual-pipeline analysis by Claude and ChatGPT with hybrid reconciliation.

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4Mentions
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29GitHub stars
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What it is

Systematic extraction and analysis of every testable AI claim Gary Marcus made on his Substack (2022-2026). Dual-pipeline analysis by Claude and ChatGPT with hybrid reconciliation.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:24:48 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by hour4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-03-04 01:30:43 UTC to 2026-03-04 02:25:56 UTC.

0122026-03-04 01:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-04 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsMar 4, 01:002026-03-04 02:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-04 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsMar 4, 02:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Mar 4, 01:002026-03-04 01:00:00 UTC2026-03-04 02:00:00 UTC211
Mar 4, 02:002026-03-04 02:00:00 UTC2026-03-04 03:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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I'm still not sure I fully understand the methodology. For example if Marcus makes the claim: "OpenAI sucks!" why would OpenAI's blog ever corroborate that? The sources used are all AI company blogs (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI) filled with inoffensive corpo-speak likely written to be as middle-of-the-ground as possible. In fact, I'd need an A/B test to make sure the LLM itself can properly rate various claims (positive, negative, and neutral) against such corporate sludge. Small aside: I'm only bringing this up because last year I worked on a game where you had to solve various moral dilemmas in a 1v1 situation (think trolley experiment and one player says "flip the switch" and the other says "don't flip the switch")—the idea was to get an LLM to rate the arguments in a fun turn-based online game. I built it out, but I kind of gave up when
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I realize how absolutely awful the LLM was at actually rating arguments and their nuances. Who won legitimately felt more like rolling a dice than a verdict given by a real judge or a philosophy professor grading a paper. I put that project aside, but might do a Show HN at some point since the game is basically done. Adjudication[1]—which is the real meat of this project—is done in a very partial way and I genuniely see basically zero value. Why not crawl reddit (or HN)? I know that also has issues, but it at least has more variety of tone. [1] https://github.com/davegoldblatt/marcus-claims-dataset/blob/...
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