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LessWrong Apr 20, 2026 at 02:12 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/xskkLe8YaRpt3c86r/tomas-bjartur-the-...
- 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.
LessWrong Apr 20, 2026 at 02:12 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/a9CxzxKbqHkQBdcqY/you-aren-t-in-char...
- This overstates the polling evidence. Some major 2020 polls found Black respondents were split or even supportive of the slogan, so it was not something polling 'consistently showed' as unpopular among Black voters.
LessWrong Apr 20, 2026 at 01:35 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/EfvePeHnW2EajwH8s/3-years-of-being-o...
- Yaz does use a lower ethinyl estradiol dose than Yasmin, but its drospirenone dose is 3 mg, not 2 mg.
- For combined hormonal contraception, the elevated clot risk on restarting is specifically tied to a break of about 4 weeks or longer—not just any stoppage.
LessWrong Apr 20, 2026 at 12:58 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/PgJYwnN7fZKipgMz4/reevaluating-agi-r...
- This is too absolute: current frontier models have already been observed trying to avoid replacement or modification in controlled evaluations.
Wikipedia Apr 20, 2026 at 12:45 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gangster_(film)
- The New York premiere was on October 19, 2007, not October 20.
- The Apollo Theater premiere was on October 19, 2007, not October 20.
- The project was revived with Terry George in 2005; Ridley Scott did not take over until February 2006.
Wikipedia Apr 20, 2026 at 12:41 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gangster_(album)
- Jay-Z's Live Nation deal was reported in April 2008, not two years after this album's November 2007 release.
- Full album credits do not show Timbaland, Swizz Beatz, or Danja as producers on American Gangster.
Wikipedia Apr 20, 2026 at 12:40 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation
- This introduces an outdated priorities list. The FBI’s official Mission and Priorities page now lists four strategy priorities: Crush Violent Crime, Defend the Homeland, Rebuild Public Trust, and Fierce Organizational Accountability.
- Official FBI materials identify the Glock 19M—not a Glock 23—as the primary Bureau-issued sidearm for new agents.
Wikipedia Apr 20, 2026 at 12:37 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
- This is incorrect: the NSA’s existence was publicly acknowledged well before 1975, including in the public National Security Agency Act of 1959. The Church Committee exposed previously secret NSA programs such as SHAMROCK and MINARET, not the agency’s existence itself.
- This is anachronistic. Patrice Lumumba was prime minister of the Congo in 1960; the country was not renamed Zaire until 1971.
Wikipedia Apr 20, 2026 at 12:26 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra_Diggs
- Herron’s federal verdict sheet shows one attempted-murder finding, not three.
- The verdict form shows three conspiracy-to-murder findings, not four.
- Herron was convicted of two narcotics conspiracies, not two substantive distribution counts.
- The murder predicates cited in Herron’s case were under New York Penal Law § 125.25(1), which is second-degree murder, not first-degree murder.
Wikipedia Apr 19, 2026 at 09:18 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsuko_Aoyama#/media/File:Heinrich_Co...
- Johannes and Richard were only toddlers when the family moved to Europe in 1896, so they could not have managed the Ronsperg estates. A scholarly source instead says Mitsuko managed the children and estate after Heinrich died in 1906.
LessWrong Apr 19, 2026 at 08:32 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZE4xhZHDHHXPuXzxh/a-collection-of-ap...
- Paul Kalanithi was 36, not 35, when he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.
Substack Apr 19, 2026 at 08:04 PM
erictopol.substack.com/p/your-thymus-and-your-healthspan
- The Nature paper did not report that thymic health outperformed PD-L1 or TMB; it said thymic health had similar average effect sizes and added independent, complementary prognostic information.
- The NEJM thymectomy study did not find a 1.5-fold increase in autoimmune disease in the overall matched primary cohort; that increase appeared only in a restricted subgroup after exclusions.
- β-Klotho is not an obligatory co-receptor for FOXN1. It is the obligate co-receptor for FGF21.
- The cited Nature paper did not report a 44% lower-risk estimate for the melanoma/breast/renal pan-cancer analysis. The paper’s 44% figure refers to a different NSCLC subgroup.
Substack Apr 19, 2026 at 08:03 PM
erictopol.substack.com/p/dawn-of-a-new-era-of-primary-preven...
- This is incorrect: clinicians have long had established ways to assess immune function, including immune-function testing and immunoglobulin blood tests.
- This overstates how often pancreatic cancer is metastatic or late-stage at diagnosis. U.S. SEER data show about 51% are distant/metastatic at diagnosis and about 79% are regional-or-distant combined.
Substack Apr 19, 2026 at 08:00 PM
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-missing-chip
- This understates how many academic centers have dedicated CHIP clinics. Mayo Clinic, NYU Langone, and Memorial Sloan Kettering all publicly describe CHIP/CH clinics, so it is not limited to just two centers.
- The cited trial did not show a statistically significant overall reduction in clonal hematopoiesis. Overall clone size still increased on colchicine, and the overall difference versus placebo was not statistically significant; the significant signal was mainly in the TET2 subgroup.
Substack Apr 19, 2026 at 05:09 PM
a16zcrypto.substack.com/p/agents-are-starting-to-operate-rea...
- Visa CLI is described by Visa as a card-payment tool, not a merchant stablecoin-settlement product. Official docs say the tokenized card is charged through the card network, and Visa/Stripe materials say merchants are paid in fiat/local currency like a normal card transaction.
Wikipedia Apr 19, 2026 at 04:36 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Savage
- The show did not remain on Talk Radio Network until 2021. Michael Savage left TRN in 2012, and later broadcasts were distributed by Cumulus/Westwood One.
X Apr 18, 2026 at 07:26 PM
x.com/Gena_I_Gorlin/status/2044936785159946449
- Douglass did not say his first job as a free man was loading coal onto ships. In his autobiographies, he says his first paid work was handling coal at a house and then stowing a sloop with oil; he does not describe a first ship-loading job involving coal.
Wikipedia Apr 18, 2026 at 06:24 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen
- This board-membership list is outdated. Marc Andreessen is not a current HPE director, and companies like Bump and TinyCo were acquired years ago, so presenting them as current board seats is inaccurate.
X Apr 18, 2026 at 04:23 PM
x.com/alexandrosM/status/2039828857596047666
- This is contradicted by Yudkowsky’s own recorded statements. In the Roko’s Basilisk episode, he explicitly banned discussion in part to avoid giving people “horrible nightmares” and later said exposing people to such infohazards was “a crappy thing to do.”
Wikipedia Apr 18, 2026 at 05:06 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_conson...
- This is too categorical: major dictionaries record a /pyu-/ pronunciation of "Pulitzer" as an accepted American variant, so it is not simply "widely incorrect."