Does the newer position hold with the older one?
217 comparisons across 133 people: a recent statement or decision set beside something the same person said or did earlier on the same question. Each of the four readings below is an editorial judgement about two dated statements, not a finding about the person — so both statements are shown in full, with their sources, and the analysis carries the case each way.
ConsistentWhere the newer position held with the older
106 comparisons · 83 people
The later statement or action follows from the earlier one, and the analysis says on which reading it does.
- Dario Amodei2026-07-28A 25% catastrophe estimate followed by a petition to pace the entire frontier is belief followed by matching action.…
- Jensen Huang2026-07-28From Milken 2025 to Washington 2026 the message has not moved: AI automates tasks, transforms jobs, and replaces the…
- Matteo Renzi2026-07-28Renzi's allies say he has warned for months that Meloni's hedging would sideline Rome. Government supporters counter…
EvolvedWhere a position changed, and the change is on the record
47 comparisons · 47 people
The position moved, and the shift is acknowledged or argued for rather than left unstated.
- Volodymyr Zelensky2026-07-28From being ejected from the Oval Office to "good meetings" and joint Patriot production in the same room, seventeen…
- Sam Altman2026-07-25In 2015 he called superhuman machine intelligence "probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of…
- Danielle Smith2026-07-23In March 2025 Smith called Trump's tariffs foolish and fully supported Trudeau's response; by July 2026 she again…
TensionWhere a newer position sits awkwardly with an older one
54 comparisons · 45 people
The two can be squared, but only with an argument — so the argument for and the argument against are both set out.
- Mark Carney2026-07-29Allies say Carney kept 'everything on the table' for general retaliation while wisely refusing to destroy Canada's…
- Mark Zuckerberg2026-07-28On July 2 he told staff AI agents hadn't progressed as hoped; on July 28 he told the world superintelligence would…
- Sam Altman2026-07-28In 2023 he asked government to license and regulate frontier AI. In 2026 he proposes that industry voluntarily "pace"…
ContradictoryWhere two positions on the record pull against each other
10 comparisons · 10 people
The two could not be squared on the evidence to hand; what is said in defence of each is set out with them.
- Keir Starmer2026-07-20Starmer promised step-change reform in May then resigned in July with 'My work is done.' Allies call it dignified…
- Marjorie Taylor Greene2026-06-23In July 2024 she had a prime-time RNC slot vouching that Trump would 'make America successful again'; twenty-three…
- Tucker Carlson2026-04-20In October 2024 Carlson was Trump's most theatrical hype man, casting him as an avenging father coming home to spank a…
