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Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 05:52 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalric,_King_of_Jerusalem
- This should be Louis VII, not Louis VIII. Louis VII was king of France in the 1160s; Louis VIII was born later, in 1187, and did not reign until 1223–1226.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 05:41 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk,_King_of_Jerusalem
- Constance was not an infant when she married Raymond of Poitiers. Standard reference works date her birth to 1128 and the marriage to 1136, making her about eight or nine years old.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 05:40 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joscelin_III,_Count_of_Edessa
- This compresses two different arrivals into one month. Philip II reached Acre in April 1191, but Richard I did not arrive until June 8, 1191.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 05:39 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joscelin_I,_Count_of_Edessa
- Zengi did gain Aleppo, but he did not control Damascus by 1129. Damascus remained outside his rule; even Britannica says control of Damascus was a goal he never achieved.
- Zengi controlled Aleppo, but not Damascus. Contemporary Syria was still politically divided, and Damascus remained under Burid rule until Nur al-Din took it in 1154.
- 1146 is not the correct date for the county's conquest. Edessa itself fell in 1144, while the remaining remnants of the county survived until 1150.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 05:39 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_II_of_Jerusalem
- This date is wrong. Alberic of Trois-Fontaines was a 13th-century chronicler, and his chronicle was composed in the 1230s–1240s, not in 1119.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 05:21 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_III
- This is chronologically wrong. Innocent III knew about the planned move against Constantinople before the sack, and Alexios IV was restored in 1203, before the city's fall in 1204.
- Baldwin I was crowned emperor, not king. Standard references identify him as the first Latin emperor of Constantinople.
- This understates the crusade's toll by using a figure associated with the 1209 massacre at Béziers for the whole war. The crusade lasted from 1209 to 1229 and involved multiple massacres and campaigns beyond Béziers.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 05:15 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre,_Israel
- This is wrong on both the date and the participants: the bombardment was on November 3, 1840, and France was not part of the 1840 attacking coalition.
- This is outdated: Hapoel Acre is currently listed in Liga Leumit, Israel’s second division, not the Premier League.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 05:13 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_I
- This attribution appears to be based on a misused source. The cited Cerri page is about the country of Albania, while standard references identify Innocent I's birthplace as Albano.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 05:12 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Acre_(1291)
- This is too absolute. Many Latin Christian inhabitants escaped Acre by sea to Cyprus rather than being killed or enslaved.
- Acre’s fall ended permanent Crusader rule on the mainland, but not all later crusading efforts toward the eastern Mediterranean. Later projects and attempts sought to regain a mainland foothold after 1291.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 05:05 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_I_of_Jerusalem
- This sentence is off by about a year on both points: Roger I died in 1101, and standard reference works describe Adelaide's regency as lasting until 1112, not ending in 1111.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 05:00 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynald_of_Ch%C3%A2tillon
- Raynald did not become lord of Transjordan in 1175. Reliable sources place his acquisition of the lordship in 1177, when he married Stephanie of Milly.
- This is too absolute. Other Christian leaders, including Baldwin IV and Guy of Lusignan, also fought Saladin during the 1180s.
- Raynald's reign as lord of Transjordan did not begin in 1176. Standard references place the start in 1177, when he married Stephanie of Milly.
LessWrong May 14, 2026 at 04:34 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gutiw8MBrYDiD2u5z/models-finding-sof...
- Historical botnets were not limited to DDoS, spam, and crypto/card scraping. Long before current AI concerns, major botnets were used for banking theft, credential harvesting, ransomware delivery, and other automated fraud.
LessWrong May 14, 2026 at 04:33 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gutiw8MBrYDiD2u5z/models-finding-sof...
- This overstates how much time defenders historically had after patches shipped. Threat-intelligence studies found many vulnerabilities were exploited before a patch existed or within hours to days after a patch was released.
LessWrong May 14, 2026 at 04:26 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gutiw8MBrYDiD2u5z/models-finding-sof...
- This overstates the historical limits of botnets. Long before current AI concerns, major botnets were already used for large-scale bank fraud, credential theft, data exfiltration, and ransomware deployment—not just DDoS, spam, or crypto/credit-card scraping.
LessWrong May 14, 2026 at 04:21 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gutiw8MBrYDiD2u5z/models-finding-sof...
- This understates what botnets were already used for. Long before current AI, major botnets were used for banking fraud, credential theft, ransomware deployment, lateral movement, and data exfiltration—not just DDoS, spam, or simple theft.
LessWrong May 14, 2026 at 04:19 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gutiw8MBrYDiD2u5z/models-finding-sof...
- Historically, botnets have been used for much more than DDoS, spam, cryptomining, or credit-card scraping. Official DOJ records show botnets were already enabling ransomware, bank fraud, child exploitation, bomb threats, and other serious crimes years before this post.
LessWrong May 14, 2026 at 04:17 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gutiw8MBrYDiD2u5z/models-finding-sof...
- This understates what botnets were already doing years ago. Long before current AI concerns, major botnets were stealing banking credentials, enabling wire fraud, and delivering ransomware—not just DDoS, spam, cryptomining, or credit-card theft.
LessWrong May 14, 2026 at 04:15 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gutiw8MBrYDiD2u5z/models-finding-sof...
- Historical botnets were already used for harms beyond DDoS, spam, cryptomining, and card theft, including credential theft and ransomware delivery.
X May 14, 2026 at 01:40 AM
x.com/HowToAI_/status/2054611399792644386
- The paper presents Nested Learning as a new paradigm or perspective, not a proof that all models literally are thousands of parallel optimizers.
- The paper does not report perfect long-context stability, and it explicitly says existing LLMs already had an adaptable in-context-learning mechanism before Hope.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 01:10 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
- Forbes says Musk regained the top spot in May 2024, not 2025, and its May 2026 list put his net worth at $782 billion, not $788 billion.
- Neuralink announced FDA approval for its first in-human clinical study in May 2023, not September 2023.
- Musk's removal as Tesla chair was part of the SEC's September 2018 settlement, and Tesla named Robyn Denholm chair in November 2018.
- The Musk Foundation's 2024 filing shows about $463 million in net assets, not over $14 billion.