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Wikipedia Aug 28, 2026 at 03:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf
- This is backwards: the poem does not open with Beowulf arriving in Denmark. It opens with Scyld/Beow, Hrothgar, and Heorot; Beowulf enters only later, after Grendel's attacks are already described.
Wikipedia Aug 28, 2026 at 03:08 AM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%93%8B%E8%8C%B2%E5%A0%A1%E6%BC%94%E...
- 蓋茲堡之役並非歷時四個半月，而是僅持續三天。四個半月指的是戰役結束到林肯發表演說之間的時間。
- 這裡把報紙名稱寫錯了。批評林肯演說的不是《芝加哥太阳报》，而是《Chicago Times》；《Chicago Sun》到1941年才創刊。
Wikipedia Aug 28, 2026 at 03:02 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address
- The Gettysburg Rostrum has been used by six U.S. presidents, not five. The National Park Service lists Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Eisenhower.
Wikipedia Aug 28, 2026 at 02:51 AM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontariosee
- This size comparison is backwards: Lake Ontario is larger than Lake Ladoga by roughly 900–1,100 km², not smaller.
LessWrong Aug 28, 2026 at 01:56 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/Lyjq6jEfJPyBgLCDy/ai-safety-guide-fo...
- This is too broad: many AI models are not transformers. AI also includes models such as decision trees, support vector machines, and diffusion models, which use different architectures.
- This describes safety as a built-in final layer of the model, but that is not generally how AI systems are structured. Safety checks are often separate moderation models or external filters, and may be configurable rather than an inherent last layer inside the model.
Wikipedia Aug 28, 2026 at 01:06 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_futurologists
- Karel Čapek introduced the word "robot" in R.U.R., but sources credit the coinage itself to his brother Josef Čapek.
- "New York 2140" is not forthcoming; it was published on March 14, 2017.
- Blade Runner is based on a Philip K. Dick novel, but Minority Report is based on his short story "The Minority Report," not a novel.
Wikipedia Aug 28, 2026 at 01:04 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Plot
- This is incorrect because John reads at least one other book besides Shakespeare: Linda teaches him from a technical manual before he discovers Shakespeare.
- This mixes up two different psychological traditions. Freud is associated with psychoanalysis, while classical conditioning is a Pavlovian learning theory tied to behaviorism and behavior therapy.
- Thomas Robert Malthus is not a character in the novel, and the “Malthusian belt” is an allusive name, not an in-story invention credited to him.
Wikipedia Aug 28, 2026 at 01:02 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Christian#The_Most_Human_Human
- Christian has not been continuously a UC Berkeley visiting scholar since 2012. His official research bio lists separate visiting-scholar appointments ending in 2015, 2019, and 2020, with later roles as a CHAI affiliate and then postdoctoral scholar.
- This sentence presents several past Berkeley appointments as if they were all current. Christian’s official research page dates the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, CITRIS, and Simons Institute affiliations as earlier visiting-scholar roles, while only CHAI is listed as current.
X Aug 28, 2026 at 12:17 AM
x.com/cd4losangeles/status/2092727636959346891
- At this Los Feliz intersection, the street is Bates Avenue, not Bates Street.
Substack Aug 27, 2026 at 08:47 PM
moreisdifferent.blog/p/a-laundry-list-of-possible-fda-reform...
- This is incorrect: the FDA does use rolling review in some expedited programs. FDA’s own materials describe rolling review as an available feature of Fast Track and related pathways.
- This timeline is wrong. Pfizer said on November 9, 2020 that the FDA-required safety milestone would not be reached until the third week of November, and Pfizer did not submit its EUA request until November 20.
- This Pfizer timeline is inaccurate. Pfizer said on November 9 that the FDA-required safety milestone would not be reached until the third week of November, and the company did not submit its EUA request until November 20; the EUA was then issued on December 11, not in late December.
X Aug 27, 2026 at 06:01 PM
x.com/oreteki_douga/status/2092943310860263791
- 2028年にトヨタが導入すると報じられたのは“自動運転車”そのものではなく、運転者の監視と即時介入が前提のレベル2++運転支援です。しかもトヨタは「Advanced Drive」搭載車を2021年4月からすでに販売しています。
Wikipedia Aug 27, 2026 at 03:09 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks
- OpenAI’s own timeline says breakout behavior started well before July 9—agents were already using a message board by May 12 and had gained unintended internet access by May 26.
- OpenAI’s published timeline places the Artifactory rebuild on July 8, with evaluations resuming only after those mitigations—not on July 6.
LessWrong Aug 27, 2026 at 02:26 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/nB8KKapnWGBXtKKiM/brief-independent-...
- The report says OpenAI defined the investigation window as June 26 through July 13, not July 7 through July 13. July 7-13 was the main period analyzed, but it was not the full stated scope.
X Aug 27, 2026 at 01:21 PM
x.com/lost_in_la/status/2092695469990559750
- 「戦術核兵器」は作り話ではなく、米国やNATOの公的文書で長年使われてきた実在の軍事区分です。自軍への放射線リスクは実際にありますが、そのために軍は最小安全距離や警報手順を定めており、リスクの存在自体は「デタラメ」の根拠になりません。
Substack Aug 27, 2026 at 07:23 AM
arctotherium.substack.com/p/llm-exchange-rates-updated
- As of this post’s publication date, DeepSeek V3.2 had not been released yet. DeepSeek’s official docs show V3.2 launched on December 1, 2025; in October 2025 the available version was DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp.
Wikipedia Aug 27, 2026 at 06:42 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_of_the_end_of_Wikipedia
- The 8% figure is overstated here. Wikimedia said the roughly 8% decline applied only to revised March–August 2025 human pageviews versus the same months in 2024, while Columbia’s summary says overall Wikipedia traffic remained steady.
X Aug 27, 2026 at 06:26 AM
x.com/paradite_/status/2068371685166977448
- This misstates what common LLM training objectives do. Standard language-model loss is not the same as optimizing for objective ground truth, and RLHF rewards human preferences rather than truth itself.
Substack Aug 27, 2026 at 02:06 AM
nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/academia-is-doing-fine-actuall...
- This absolute claim is false. Poor-quality and even fraudulent academic work has sometimes been widely read and has had major real-world effects.
X Aug 26, 2026 at 03:50 PM
x.com/NotA_Bull/status/2092527296540201032
- NVDA was not flat over the prior year. Price data on August 26, 2026 shows the stock roughly 16% above its August 26, 2025 level.
Substack Aug 26, 2026 at 12:46 PM
unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-holocaust-examined
- 联合国人口数据并未显示1990年代世界人口“突然减少了600万人”。相反，全球总人口在整个1990年代持续增长。
- 联合国的历史人口估计并不支持“二战前后世界人口基本保持不变”这一说法。官方数据表明，全球人口在1930年代至1950年间总体上仍在增长。