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LessWrong Sep 4, 2026 at 12:06 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/dw8w3PNy9JanSJc8s/occam-alternatives
  • This is not Schmidhuber's published definition of the speed prior. The speed prior is defined via a resource-bounded semimeasure based on the fastest way of computing data, not by the simple formula 2^(-(L+N)).
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Wikipedia Sep 4, 2026 at 09:53 AM
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  • Die Verallgemeinerung „alle“ ist zu stark. Schon die Forschung zu frühen römischen Basiliken nennt Gegenbeispiele und beschreibt die Orientierung in Rom als uneinheitlich.
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Wikipedia Sep 4, 2026 at 09:52 AM
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  • Das angegebene Jahr ist falsch. Offizielle Seiten der Stadt Pisa datieren die erste durch Setzungen verursachte Unterbrechung und erkennbare Neigung auf etwa 1178, nicht 1185.
  • Der Durchmesser ist zu klein angegeben. Die offizielle Website der Opera della Primaziale Pisana nennt für den Turm einen Außendurchmesser von 15 Metern.
  • Die Besuchsdauer ist veraltet bzw. falsch angegeben. Die offizielle Ticket-Information des Betreibers nennt für den Turmbesuch eine Dauer von etwa 30 Minuten.
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LessWrong Sep 4, 2026 at 06:41 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/6t4EjTfNzC6jN69ad/great-explanations
  • This bibliographic reference mixes up two different books. Brian Greene’s chapter 5 “The Frozen River” is from *The Fabric of the Cosmos*, while *The Fabric of Reality* is a different book by David Deutsch.
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Wikipedia Sep 4, 2026 at 05:37 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel_Intentions
  • This omits the word “million.” Box-office sources put the film’s worldwide gross at roughly $76 million, not $76.30 total.
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Wikipedia Sep 3, 2026 at 08:31 AM
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  • The 1999 Daffy Duck stamp was not credited only to Ed Wleczyk. Smithsonian and contemporary reporting credit Ed Wleczyk, Frank Espinosa, and Brenda Guttman for the artwork.
  • The mailbox letters do not both bear Bugs Bunny stamps. Contemporary reporting says they show Bugs Bunny and the Sylvester-and-Tweety stamp.
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Wikipedia Sep 3, 2026 at 08:21 AM
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  • This mixes up districts. Timure, Dhunche, Syafrubesi, and Mailung are in Rasuwa district, not Nuwakot.
  • The date is off by a day. Official Chinese government reporting says Li Qiang arrived in Gyirong on Thursday, 27 August 2026, not 26 August.
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Substack Sep 3, 2026 at 08:18 AM
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  • The linked study does not report willingness to pay as “roughly doubled” in that experiment. It reports a nearly 50% increase; only the median, not overall willingness to pay, is described as doubling in a different comparison.
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Wikipedia Sep 3, 2026 at 08:17 AM
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  • Panniyampadam is not administered by Mundur Grama Panchayat. Current Kerala local-body records place Panniyampadam in Puduppariyaram Grama Panchayat.
  • This is the wrong local-body jurisdiction. Government records place Panniyampadam in Puduppariyaram Grama Panchayat, not Mundur Grama Panchayat.
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Wikipedia Sep 3, 2026 at 08:15 AM
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  • This sentence misplaces several settlements. Timure, Dhunche, and Syafru/Syafrubesi are in Rasuwa district, not Nuwakot.
  • The 933 figure refers to missing workers across multiple hydropower projects, not to workers at Upper Trishuli-3A alone. Reporting on Upper Trishuli-3A put the number there at only dozens.
  • This misstates the NDRRMA’s 2 September figures. A 2 September summary of the NDRRMA update reported 1,204 bodies recovered and about 4,216 people out of contact, not 4,858 missing.
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Wikipedia Sep 3, 2026 at 08:13 AM
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  • ഈ വിവരം പഴയതാണ്. Signal ആൻഡ്രോയിഡിൽ SMS/MMS പിന്തുണ നീക്കം ചെയ്തതിനാൽ ഇനി അത് SMS ആപ്പായി പ്രവർത്തിക്കില്ല.
  • സഖ്യശക്തികൾ ഇറ്റലി ആദ്യമായി അധിനിവേശം ചെയ്തത് 1943 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 3-ന് അല്ല, 1943 ജൂലൈ 10-ന് സിസിലിയിൽ ഇറങ്ങിപ്പെട്ടപ്പോഴാണ്. സെപ്റ്റംബർ 3-ന് നടന്നത് ഇറ്റാലിയൻ മുഖ്യഭൂഖണ്ഡത്തിലെ Baytown ആക്രമണമായിരുന്നു.
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Wikipedia Sep 3, 2026 at 07:12 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Shazeer
  • Shazeer was born in 1976, not “1975 or 1976.” Credible sources identify 1976 specifically.
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X Sep 3, 2026 at 07:01 AM
x.com/JaredKubin/status/2094136005435564399
  • OpenAI says it did not simply wipe the server and restart. Before evaluations resumed, it revoked credentials and deployed several mitigations, including blocking vulnerable Artifactory paths and restricting agent requests.
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Wikipedia Sep 3, 2026 at 04:56 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_index
  • In database systems, a cluster is not a join of multiple databases and tables. It is a storage/schema object that groups one or more tables together physically by a shared cluster key.
  • Creating a table does not automatically create a primary index in general. Official database docs say indexes are created automatically only for specific constraints such as PRIMARY KEY or UNIQUE, not merely because a table was created.
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Wikipedia Sep 3, 2026 at 03:58 AM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahrenshoop
  • Der Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen entstand nicht 2001, sondern erst 2011. Ahrenshoop gehörte nach 1994 weiterhin zum Landkreis Nordvorpommern, bis Vorpommern-Rügen im Zuge der Kreisreform 2011 gebildet wurde.
  • Diese Aussage ist veraltet. Ahrenshoop hat seit 2025 ein eigenes amtliches Wappen und eine eigene Flagge.
  • Auch das Dienstsiegel ist inzwischen anders geregelt. Die aktuelle Hauptsatzung bestimmt ein Dienstsiegel mit dem neuen Gemeindewappen, nicht mehr das kleine Landessiegel mit Stierkopf.
  • Diese Linienangabe ist veraltet. Im aktuellen DB-Fahrplan für Ribnitz-Damgarten West ist RE 9 verzeichnet; RE 10 und RB 12 gehören dort nicht zum aktuellen Bedienungsangebot.
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Wikipedia Sep 3, 2026 at 03:56 AM
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  • Das Büdnerwesen existierte in Mecklenburg schon vor 1753. Das Edikt von 1753 regelte vielmehr die forcierte Ansiedlung von Büdnereien im Domanium, statt den Stand erst zu „einzuführen“.
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Wikipedia Sep 3, 2026 at 03:51 AM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stauschleuse
  • This is incorrect: chamber locks predated Leonardo da Vinci by centuries. Sources on lock history say the first lock with gates at both ends was built in Holland in 1373, and Leonardo is instead credited with improving the mitre-gate design.
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Substack Sep 3, 2026 at 02:57 AM
linch.substack.com/p/what-is-neuralese
  • Open-source latent-reasoning models were already public before this post, and at least one published paper reports measurable benchmark gains from that approach.
  • The cited paper was posted in July 2025, not July 2026.
  • The paper was signed by individual authors, not officially co-signed by their institutions; the paper itself says it reflects the authors’ views, not necessarily those of affiliated organizations.
  • The reported Alibaba incident involved the model repurposing Alibaba Cloud training infrastructure, not taking over users’ personal computers.
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LessWrong Sep 2, 2026 at 08:23 PM
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  • This timeline is too late: recurrent/looped Transformer architectures were already being studied by 2018, not only since 2023.
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X Sep 2, 2026 at 06:01 PM
x.com/deredleritt3r/status/2093360259515511130
  • The October 2025 Microsoft-OpenAI agreement did not say these rights expire only after AGI verification. It said they last until either expert-panel verification of AGI or 2030, whichever comes first.
  • By August 2026, that was outdated. Microsoft said on April 27, 2026 that OpenAI-to-Microsoft revenue-share payments continue through 2030, independent of AGI progress, subject to a cap.
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