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LessWrong May 27, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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- Pickpocketing could carry a death sentence, but execution was not automatic. In practice, many capital convicts were pardoned, and Old Bailey sources say pickpocketing had ceased to lead to executions there by the later 18th century.
LessWrong May 26, 2026 at 09:15 PM
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- This misstates the paper’s metrics. Jabarian and Imas report Pangram had near-zero false positive and false negative rates; a near-zero false positive rate implies a near-100% true negative rate, not under 5%.
- This misreads the reported metric. In the cited paper, Pangram’s false positive rate is 0.0000 and its true positive rate is 0.7791; a 0% false positive rate implies a true negative rate of 100%, not 28%.
LessWrong May 26, 2026 at 09:08 PM
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- This overgeneralizes pollination. Many flowering plants are not pollinated by bees at all: some are pollinated by wind or water, and many others by animals such as birds, butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, wasps, and bats.
X May 26, 2026 at 02:44 PM
x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2059174131665391802
- The encyclical does mention health and personal data, but most of its references to "data" are broader discussions of digital power, governance, access, and ownership.
LessWrong May 26, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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- This overstates how public the release benchmarks were. Anthropic release materials included at least one explicitly internal evaluation and also discussed SWE-bench results that rely on hidden tests.
Wikipedia May 26, 2026 at 08:22 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
- This is outdated: the original PageRank patent is expired, so no one now has exclusive rights to practice it.
- This overstates the situation. The original Stanford/Google PageRank patent expired, but not all PageRank-related patents had expired by September 24, 2019.
- This is outdated and misleading. Google no longer offers public PageRank scores, and its current documentation says ranking primarily works at the page level rather than through a single public site-authority score.
LessWrong May 26, 2026 at 01:41 AM
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- This overstates what was unknown at the time. WHO and CDC were already publicly saying before repatriation that Andes virus has only limited human-to-human transmission and that the outbreak’s public-health risk was low.
Wikipedia May 26, 2026 at 12:04 AM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturrecht
- The encyclical title is misspelled. Pope Leo XIII’s 1890 encyclical is titled “Sapientiae Christianae,” not “Sapientae christianae.”
- This theologian’s name is misspelled. The major School of Salamanca figure was Domingo de Soto, not “Dominico de Soto.”
- This overstates and misdescribes these thinkers, especially Grotius and Pufendorf. Standard references describe their modern natural-law theories as emphasizing reason and, in Pufendorf’s case, explicitly eschewing religious appeals rather than simply equating natural law with biblical revelation.
X May 25, 2026 at 09:42 PM
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- This misstates Amodei’s comments. His reported “half of all” warning was about entry-level white-collar jobs over one to five years, while his “6–12 months” comment was about AI doing software engineers’ work end-to-end—not about Claude Code subscriptions.
Substack May 25, 2026 at 08:45 PM
www.theargumentmag.com/p/on-suicidal-penguins
- Locke, California is generally dated to 1915, not 1916. Official histories from the Locke Foundation and the National Park Service say the town was founded and built by Chinese immigrants in 1915.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 07:30 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Accords
- This skips Mauritania, which established full diplomatic relations with Israel in 1999. UAE and Bahrain were therefore not the first Arab countries to do so since Jordan in 1994.
- The date is wrong. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is on January 27, and contemporaneous coverage of the Abraham Accords-related event places it on Jan. 27, 2021, not March 27.
X May 25, 2026 at 06:41 PM
x.com/bcherny/status/2058519809214607704
- Claude Code’s auto mode does not eliminate permission prompts in all cases. Anthropic’s docs say it reduces prompts, but it can fall back to manual approval after repeated blocked actions.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 06:01 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab-eating_macaque
- This is outdated/incorrect taxonomy and status. IUCN says *M. f. philippinensis* is under dispute, and it has been tentatively removed as a separate Red List assessment and included with *M. f. fascicularis*.
- These Red List statuses are wrong. In the 2022 IUCN updates, *M. f. condorensis* was listed as Endangered, while several other subspecies were assessed as Vulnerable or Critically Endangered rather than Data Deficient.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 06:01 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwalk,_California
- Tony Ayala is no longer Norwalk's mayor. The City of Norwalk's current mayor page identifies Jennifer Perez as mayor, while Ayala is listed as a councilmember.
- This routing is outdated. Metro says the C Line now runs from Norwalk to the LAX/Metro Transit Center, while the K Line serves Redondo Beach; airport shuttles run from the LAX/Metro Transit Center, not Aviation Station.
- A more recent City of Norwalk document says the Norwalk Sheriff's Station is currently staffed with 165 sworn personnel, not 206.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 05:53 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Zhong_and_Hua_Hua
- This contrast is inaccurate. Earlier monkey nuclear-transfer experiments also used fetal cells, including fetal fibroblasts, not just embryonic cells.
- The number 21 refers to surrogate monkeys, not ova. Reports on the experiment say 79 embryos were implanted into 21 surrogate mothers.
- Dolly was not the first cloned mammal overall. She was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 05:53 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)
- ViaGen is not a Korean company. Its official contact information places it in Texas, and its cloning process is described as taking place in the United States.
- ViaGen's official pricing says cat cloning costs $50,000, not $30,000.
- 2018 was not the first successful primate cloning overall. A rhesus macaque named Tetra had already been cloned in 2000 by embryo splitting; 2018 was the first primate cloning by Dolly's SCNT method.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 05:50 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning
- This is outdated. Stem-cell therapies other than bone marrow transplantation are already used clinically, including the EMA-authorized limbal stem-cell treatment Holoclar.
- This is incorrect: regenerative medicine is already used clinically. FDA defines regenerative medicine to include cell therapies and related products, and it maintains a current list of many approved cellular and gene therapy products.
- This is false. Chinese Academy of Sciences sources report primate cloning from adult donor cells, including macaques cloned from adult-cell fibroblasts.
LessWrong May 25, 2026 at 04:52 PM
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- This overstates the filtering: personal blogposts are hidden from the homepage’s Latest Posts list by default, but they still appear on the homepage in the Recent Discussion section.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 04:43 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Plenty
- This publisher is incorrect. Authoritative bibliographic records for *The Birth of Plenty* list the 2004 book as published by McGraw-Hill, while "Wiley" belongs to a different 2004 book with the unrelated ISBN shown in this infobox.
- This publication date is wrong for *The Birth of Plenty*. Bibliographic records place the book's 2004 McGraw-Hill edition in spring 2004; August 11, 2004 is the date of a different Wiley book whose metadata was apparently copied here.
- This page count is incorrect for *The Birth of Plenty*. Contemporary bibliographic sources list the 2004 book at 420 pages; "400" is part of the unrelated Wiley metadata copied into this infobox.
- This ISBN is incorrect. *The Birth of Plenty* is cataloged under ISBN 0071421920 / 9780071421928; 0471270474 belongs to David Darling's unrelated *The Universal Book of Mathematics*.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 04:41 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Splendid_Exchange
- This Atlantic Books edition was published in London, not in the United States.
- The ISBN shown corresponds to a 467-page edition, not a 400-page one.