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🤖 Tech has another tough year in 2023

Markets pay for over-earning, not value to society; tech under-earns and has a tough 2023.

0 CONVICTION
peaked 41.1 EMBER
DORMANT
band · contested
▼ SHORT QQQ
expression · bearish tech
MISS
outcome · R -48.6% · α -71.0%
2024-01-06
window closed
⚠ CONFLICTING IDEAS ON THE SAME TICKER — the board is arguing with itself; net it before trading (ticker view →)
QQQ · It's 1997-98, not 1999 — the melt-up has years left LONG GREEN 67.3 ← stronger than this idea (5.9)
QQQ · The 2026 US boom — 5-6% GDP prints LONG WATCH 54.6 ← stronger than this idea (5.9)

⚖ Why this verdict

fully deterministic — evaluate.py replays this from daily closes; nothing below is editable or hand-set

  1. Window: 2023-01-06 → 2024-01-06 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
  2. The call: ▼ SHORT QQQ (primary play). QQQ rose 48.6% over the window → direction-adjusted R = -48.6% (the call lost money).
  3. Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +22.4%α = -48.6 − (+22.4) = -71.0% — what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the verdict uses.
    Stock-selection read: -26.2% — did QQQ move the predicted way relative to the market. The two only differ on a SHORT: this call was right about direction relative to the index but still cost money versus holding it.
  4. Rule fired:
    · HIT — R ≥ +10% AND α ≥ +5
    · PARTIAL — R ≥ +5% OR α ≥ 0
    ▶ MISS — everything else
  5. Credit: supporters of a MISS earn 0 each, opposers the inverse — this feeds the scoreboard weights. supported: Chamath, Sacks | opposed: Brad Gerstner

Conviction timeline

bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15

Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2023-01-06)

Plays

expressionsymbolkindrelevancerationale
▼ SHORT QQQetf PRIMARY broad tech expression of 'tech will have a tough year'

Mention log

Chamath
Chamath tech w=0.90 · n=83 · E110 (2023-01-06) · annual_prediction · strength 1 ▶ 1:08:11 SUPPORT · horizon 12mo
“markets do not give you credit for the value in society. ... they'll pull it all back when they think ... in that lens, I think that tech will have a tough year.”
Sacks
Sacks tech w=0.77 · n=53 · E114 (2023-02-04) · explicit_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 1:01:22 SUPPORT
“The tech ecosystem is clearly going through a reset and a recession. Job cuts are now the rule, valuations are much lower, whereas in the overall economy, we saw jobs support today of over 500,000 new jobs. So, the fact of the matter is that even if the overall economy avoids a recession, that doesn't mean that things are just going to bounce back. Tech is a boom bust cycle and we had a phenomenal 10 years of boom.”
Brad Gerstner
Brad Gerstner (regular guest ×1.0) tech w=1.41 · n=17 · E133 (2023-06-16) · explicit_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 14:05 OPPOSE
“We're still trading below the 10-year average for internet and software companies based upon our numbers.”
Chamath
Chamath tech w=0.90 · n=83 · E133 (2023-06-16) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 20:45 SUPPORT
“now you have the seven or eight most valuable tech stocks priced to perfection yet again”

Who built this conviction

each voice's total force on the score — supports and opposes from every mention, weighted exactly as the replay applied them · share = % of all mention-driven movement

Chamath
Chamath w=0.90
2 scoring events · 54% of moves
+42.3 → net +42.3
Brad Gerstner
Brad Gerstner w=1.41 regular guest ×1.0
1 scoring event · 26% of moves
+0.0 / -20.3 → net -20.3
Sacks
Sacks w=0.77
1 scoring event · 20% of moves
+15.5 → net +15.5

⏳ decay drained -31.6 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one

Score events

episodekindΔafternote
E110 2023-01-06 init +28.9 28.9 E110 born by Chamath (annual_prediction x1) [w=0.90]
E111 2023-01-13 decay -1.2 27.8 E111 silent
E112 2023-01-20 decay -1.1 26.6 E112 silent
E113 2023-01-27 decay -1.1 25.6 E113 silent
E114 2023-02-04 reinforce +15.5 41.1 E114 Sacks support x3 (new voice) [w=0.77]
E115 2023-02-11 decay -1.6 39.5 E115 silent
E116 2023-02-17 decay -1.6 37.9 E116 silent
E118 2023-03-03 decay -1.5 36.4 E118 silent
E119 2023-03-11 decay -1.5 34.9 E119 silent
E120 2023-03-17 decay -1.4 33.5 E120 silent
E121 2023-03-24 decay -1.3 32.2 E121 silent
E122 2023-03-31 decay -1.3 30.9 E122 silent
E123 2023-04-07 decay -1.2 29.7 E123 silent
E124 2023-04-14 decay -1.2 28.5 E124 silent
E125 2023-04-21 decay -1.1 27.3 E125 silent
E126 2023-04-28 decay -1.1 26.2 E126 silent
E128 2023-05-12 decay -1.0 25.2 E128 silent
E129 2023-05-19 decay -1.0 24.2 E129 silent
E130 2023-05-26 decay -1.0 23.2 E130 silent
E131 2023-06-02 decay -0.9 22.3 E131 silent
E132 2023-06-10 decay -0.9 21.4 E132 silent
E133 2023-06-16 oppose -20.3 1.1 E133 Brad Gerstner opposes x3 [w=1.41]
E133 2023-06-16 reinforce +13.4 14.5 E133 Chamath support x2 [w=0.90]
E134 2023-06-24 decay -0.6 13.9 E134 silent
E135 2023-07-01 decay -0.6 13.3 E135 silent
E136 2023-07-09 decay -0.5 12.8 E136 silent
E137 2023-07-14 decay -0.5 12.3 E137 silent
E139 2023-07-27 decay -0.5 11.8 E139 silent
E140 2023-08-04 decay -0.5 11.3 E140 silent
E141 2023-08-11 decay -0.5 10.9 E141 silent
E142 2023-08-18 decay -0.4 10.4 E142 silent
E143 2023-08-25 decay -0.4 10.0 E143 silent
E144 2023-09-01 decay -0.4 9.6 E144 silent
E146 2023-09-22 decay -0.4 9.2 E146 silent
E147 2023-09-29 decay -0.4 8.9 E147 silent
E148 2023-10-07 decay -0.4 8.5 E148 silent
E149 2023-10-13 decay -0.3 8.2 E149 silent
E150 2023-10-20 decay -0.3 7.8 E150 silent
E151 2023-10-27 decay -0.3 7.5 E151 silent
E152 2023-11-03 decay -0.3 7.2 E152 silent
E156 2023-12-08 decay -0.3 6.9 E156 silent
E157 2023-12-16 decay -0.3 6.7 E157 silent
E158 2023-12-23 decay -0.3 6.4 E158 silent
E159 2023-12-29 decay -0.3 6.1 E159 silent
E160 2024-01-06 decay -0.2 5.9 E160 silent