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The Ledger

Every public, dated, falsifiable claim SymbiQ tracks about quantum computing (from labs, executives, and regulators), logged with the date it was made and an archived copy of where it was said, checked against sources named before we look, and resolved to Verified, Partially verified, Not verified, or Unfalsifiable only when the deadline arrives. No deleting misses. Right now: 20 claims tracked, 2 resolved.

Claimant scorecards

Rebuilt every time a claim resolves. A claimant needs five resolved claims before we rank them; below that, the count shows but the rate is withheld, since one lucky or unlucky guess could swing it 20 points.

Our own scorecard

Published with the same prominence as theirs. If we write criteria that turn out unscoreable, that's our error, not the claimant's, and it counts here as void.

How a claim moves through the Ledger

A claim only enters the Ledger if it is attributed to a named person or organisation, dated, falsifiable (there's a stated observation that would make it false), deadlined, and its resolution criteria are pre-registered before tracking starts. If a claim can't clear that bar as stated, we either rewrite it with an explicit SymbiQ-constructed interpretation (flagged as such; see Microsoft's entry for a live example) or file it as unfalsifiable, which is itself a published verdict.

1. Pre-registration and freeze. Resolution criteria and resolver sources are locked the moment a claim starts tracking. Changing them after the fact voids the claim from scoring, in public, never as a quiet edit.
2. A separate verdict. A verdict is written after the deadline, in its own pass, against the criteria and sources frozen when the claim was logged, and it cites every piece of evidence it uses. A drafted verdict is shown in full, marked as not yet final, before it is published.
3. Archive at intake. No claim starts tracking without an independent, dated snapshot of its source, and no verdict ships without one for every piece of evidence it rests on, so an edited or deleted press release can't make a claim unprovable later. Each link shows the date its copy was taken.
4. Void is our failure, not theirs. Unscoreable criteria are our mistake, published with the same weight as any other correction.
5. Right of reply. Any claimant can answer a verdict at any time, through the correction report or by email. The reply is published in full beside the verdict, and if it shows the verdict is wrong, the verdict changes and the change is logged.
6. Claims, not people. The verdict vocabulary has no word for lying, hype, or fraud, only whether what was said matches what happened.

How claims are checked and scored is on How we check.

Any open claim below also carries a Your call panel, next to the crowd forecast, where you can stake your own split of verified / partially verified / not verified. It's saved in this browser only, scored the day the claim actually resolves, and never blended with a game score or a curriculum answer — see The Standing for the honest reasoning behind keeping those separate.

Cite it

The underlying data is data/claims/index.json, and every claim has its own permanent link (the # on each entry above), so anything here can be cited without citing us.

Seen a claim that belongs here?

No account needed. Send it in and it clears the same bar as everything above (attributed, dated, falsifiable, deadlined) before the desk writes it up as a real entry with frozen criteria. Nothing publishes automatically. The one thing that helps most is not the link — it is telling us what would settle it: a claim nobody can write a resolution rule for cannot be tracked here at all, and saying so is half the work.