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LessWrong April 20, 2026 at 02:12 AM

www.lesswrong.com/posts/xskkLe8YaRpt3c86r/tomas-bjartur-the-last-prodigy

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Claim
Bjartur’s only been writing for about a year
Correction

Publicly available records show Tomás B. published fiction years earlier than 2025–2026. LessWrong has his stories dated November 20, 2021 and January 20, 2022, so "about a year" is not accurate on the plain reading.

Full reasoning

This claim is contradicted by Bjartur's own publicly visible publishing history on LessWrong.

  • His LessWrong author page lists older fiction titles including The Maker of MIND, The Liar and the Scold, and Beauty and the Beast.
  • The Maker of MIND is dated 20th Nov 2021.
  • The Liar and the Scold is dated 20th Jan 2022.

Since this review was published on April 13, 2026, Bjartur had already been publicly posting fiction for more than four years, not "about a year."

It's possible the author meant something narrower, like "writing intensively" or "writing this recent wave of stories," but the unqualified statement as written is factually inaccurate against the public record.

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