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LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 01:43 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/LHAJuYy453YwiKFt5/the-salt-in-pasta-...
- The French 7% rule was about heating use in homes/buildings, not total national energy consumption, so deriving 185 TWh/year from it is not valid.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 01:27 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/P792Z4QA9dzcLdKkE/absurdity-heuristi...
- De Forest’s fraud indictment was brought in 1912, not 1913. Contemporary reporting and later reference works show 1913 was the trial year, while the accusation itself dated to March 1912.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 01:13 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/FxHzT6jeTRhbkzSX3/the-darwinian-hone...
- This is overstated as a universal claim. Many laying hens are kept in cage-free or other non-battery systems, and conventional battery cages have been banned in the EU since 2012.
- Poultry scalding tanks are hot, but not near boiling. Typical scalding temperatures are around 50–63°C (122–145°F), far below water’s boiling point of 100°C (212°F).
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 01:03 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/j9MKHgLD3yshN5SJF/beware-unfinished-...
- The original “No Way No How” category means people who are not interested in bicycling for transportation, not people who will ride only on car-free paths.
Substack May 12, 2026 at 10:36 AM
universalprior.substack.com/p/why-the-tails-sometimes-dont-c...
- Perez et al. (2022) did not show that these traits form a single latent cluster. The paper reports many separate evaluations and inverse-scaling results, not a factor-analysis-style result about one coherent disposition bundle.
Wikipedia May 12, 2026 at 10:25 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_L%C3%BCtke
- Lütke has said he did not graduate from school here; he dropped out at 16 and then started a programming apprenticeship.
- Lütke has publicly said he moved to Ottawa in 2002, not 2003.
- The official IMSA 2025 season standings list Lütke on 1,647 points, not 822.
- IMSA’s official 2025 LMP2 driver standings place Lütke 15th, not 19th.
X May 12, 2026 at 10:12 AM
x.com/WhiteBabyFac/status/2050292923728577017
- This overstates the study it appears to reference. In the main wedding-cost study, under-$1,000 weddings did not have the lowest raw divorce risk; that lower-risk result only appeared after statistical adjustments.
Wikipedia May 11, 2026 at 10:56 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanien
- Die Einwohnerzahl ist für 2025 deutlich zu niedrig. Offizielle ABS-Zahlen zeigen für Tasmanien im Jahr 2025 rund 576.000 Einwohner, nicht 532.187.
- Die Zahl ist für 2020 zu niedrig. Das ABS gab Tasmaniens Bevölkerung zum 30. Juni 2020 mit 540.600 an, nicht mit 523.000.
- Diese Aussage ist falsch: Tasmanische Aboriginal people existieren bis heute. Offizielle Stellen in Tasmanien und der australische Zensus erfassen eine lebende tasmanische Aboriginal-Bevölkerung.
- Die Zahl ist massiv überhöht. Offizielle australische Biodiversitätsstatistiken geben für Vögel in Australien einen Endemismus von rund 45 % an, nicht 95 %.
- Der Anteil der Nationalparks ist stark überschätzt. Die amtliche Reserve-Statistik weist Nationalparks auf rund 21,5 % der Landesfläche aus, nicht auf 37 %.
Wikipedia May 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Line
- Das ist falsch: Die Black Line war nach übereinstimmenden Standarddarstellungen ein unmittelbarer Fehlschlag. Während der Operation wurden nur zwei Aborigines gefangen genommen; die späteren Deportationen nach Flinders Island erfolgten überwiegend in den Jahren 1831–1835 durch andere Maßnahmen.
- Auch das ist unzutreffend. Die Black Line von 1830 beendete den Konflikt nicht; maßgebliche Darstellungen datieren den Black War weiter bis 1831 oder 1832 und beschreiben nach 1830 noch weitere Zwangsumsiedlungen und Kapitulationen.
Wikipedia May 11, 2026 at 10:48 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selk%CA%BCnam_people
- In June 2020 the Chamber of Deputies only advanced/approved the bill; Chile’s legal recognition of the Selkʼnam came in 2023.
X May 11, 2026 at 08:36 PM
x.com/ZeroPathAI/status/2053867743921713448
- Apache does not say all pre-2.9.0 NiFi versions are affected. The official advisory says CVE-2026-39816 affects NiFi 2.0.0-M1 through 2.8.0.
X May 11, 2026 at 08:26 PM
x.com/lukOlejnik/status/2053756142409470359?s=20
- The benchmark did not use proven-clean functions. Its authors say the patched counterparts may still contain other flaws, so 38–51% is not an established false-positive rate on clean code.
Wikipedia May 11, 2026 at 03:52 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_mugging
- Yudkowsky introduced “Pascal’s mugging” on the Overcoming Bias blog, not in the LessWrong forum. LessWrong was created later, in 2009, and later imported earlier posts.
LessWrong May 11, 2026 at 03:42 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/3pdyxFi6JS389nptu/is-programbench-im...
- The seqtk subcommand is spelled `hrun`, not `hrum`. ProgramBench’s own seqtk tests use `TestHrunCommand`, and Heng Li’s examples invoke `seqtk hrun ...`.
Wikipedia May 11, 2026 at 07:51 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb#History
- Latimer was not working for Edison when he developed and patented this filament improvement in 1882. He was then working for Hiram Maxim’s U.S. Electric Lighting Company, and joined Edison’s company later, in 1884.
- This caption is incorrect. Metal-filament incandescent lamps predated tantalum lamps: platinum filament lamps were being tested in the 19th century, and Carl Auer von Welsbach patented the first metal-filament lamp in 1898 using osmium.
Wikipedia May 11, 2026 at 07:48 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_light_bulb
- Edison was not the first to demonstrate a carbon-filament light bulb. Joseph Swan demonstrated a carbon light bulb in Newcastle on December 18, 1878, before Edison's October 1879 demonstration.
- This sentence is doubly wrong: electric light bulbs predated Edison's 1879 lamp, and Edison's carbon-filament bulbs were commercialized in 1880, not in 1879.
Wikipedia May 11, 2026 at 07:45 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_president...
- This payroll total is outdated. After BLS benchmark revisions, the BLS-sourced series shows total nonfarm employment at 158,268 thousand in January 2025, not 159,053 thousand.
- This starting payroll figure is also outdated. Revised BLS payroll data put total nonfarm employment at 142,863 thousand in January 2021, not 143,443 thousand.
Wikipedia May 11, 2026 at 07:44 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Resignation
- BLS reports the opposite for 2021: nonfarm business productivity grew 1.9%, not fell 4.1%. The largest annual productivity drop in recent BLS data was 1.7% in 2022, and BLS says that was the biggest decline since 1974, not 1948.
- This is off by several years. The Census Bureau defines Baby Boomers as those born from 1946 to 1964, so the youngest boomers were still in their late 50s in the early 2020s, not their mid-60s.
Wikipedia May 11, 2026 at 07:17 AM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wohngemeinschaft?utm_source=chatgpt.co...
- Für Wohnungsmietverträge in Österreich ist diese Aussage veraltet: Seit dem 11. November 2017 sind solche Verträge von der Rechtsgeschäftsgebühr befreit.
Substack May 11, 2026 at 05:10 AM
www.construction-physics.com/p/how-long-do-we-wait-for-new-i...
- China had long manufactured huge numbers of ballpoint pens; the missing domestic capability was high-quality pen tips or tip steel, not the pens themselves.
- Standard references on Hanaoka say his wife lost her eyesight and his mother died from the experiments; saying he merely "crippled" his mother is inaccurate.