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Wikipedia Mar 13, 2026 at 08:30 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptamer
- Alexa Fluor 594 is normally excited by visible light around 590 nm, not ultraviolet light.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 08:29 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/TzwMfRArgsNscHocX/the-incredible-fen...
- That is too absolute. Standard electrical impedance tomography often uses contact electrodes, but contactless impedance and dielectric spectroscopy methods also exist using capacitive coupling.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 08:29 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/MoF426vqQFmuwwnFf/bigger-livers
- The cited follistatin gene-therapy study was done in adult rats, not mice. Its abstract says adenoviral follistatin enlarged the livers of adult male rats to 146% of control without significant dysfunction.
- The cited Yap/Taz knockout paper reported liver adenomas, not liver cancers. It explicitly says the mice did not have hepatocellular carcinoma or cholangiocarcinoma.
- This is too categorical: human studies do report larger kidneys in obesity, and studies also report larger liver volumes in obese patients. So big livers/kidneys are not unique to athletes.
- The cited IL-6 hepatomegaly paper was done in mice, not rats. Its title and abstract both describe systemic IL-6 administration causing liver enlargement in nude mice.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 08:25 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gk2aJgg7yzzTXp8HJ/to-understand-hist...
- This population figure is far too low. UN Data lists Ethiopia's 2025 population at 135.472 million, not 110 million.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 08:24 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/evakCi7A7Yqb3F8qi/the-dream-machine
- This mixes up two different eras of CFF funding. The first CF drugs were approved before the Foundation adopted its venture-philanthropy model in 1998–2000.
- AT&T was dominant, but it was not the only U.S. telephone provider. Thousands of independent telephone companies operated in the early 1900s.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 08:24 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/kipMvuaK3NALvFHc9/what-an-actually-p...
- Credible public assessments from the IAEA and the U.S. intelligence community say Iran’s organized nuclear-weapons program halted around 2003, contradicting the claim of continuous covert weapons development over ~20 years.
Substack Mar 13, 2026 at 08:15 PM
austinvernon.substack.com/p/speed-can-reindustrialize-americ...
- This overstates South Korea’s annual shipbuilding output. Recent South Korean output is about 21.2 million DWT, while U.S. World War II merchant shipbuilding totaled over 56 million deadweight tons.
- Recent U.S. steel output is well below 100 million tons. Major industry and government sources put it around 80–88 million tons per year, not above 100 million.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 08:05 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZyXdwmBKnuTZ5CL7W/things-that-go-boo...
- JASSM-ER is not an anti-ship missile. AGM-158B JASSM-ER is the extended-range land-attack version of JASSM; the anti-ship derivative in this family is AGM-158C LRASM.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 08:04 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/zk6TiByFRyjETpTAj/economic-efficienc...
- This overstates what economics allows. Standard economic game theory explicitly studies credible threats, non-credible threats, and commitment strategies.
- Bargaining theory has in fact studied threat incentives directly. Mainstream bargaining texts and journal articles explicitly analyze commitment tactics, threats, promises, and outside options.
Wikipedia Mar 13, 2026 at 06:00 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buspirone
- Buspirone’s official contraindications do not include metabolic acidosis or diabetes. Current FDA labeling lists hypersensitivity and MAOI-related use, not metabolic acidosis.
- Buspirone-related patents predate 1980. A U.S. patent covering buspirone-class compounds was filed in 1969 and published in 1973; the 1980/1981 patent was for a later buspirone process, not the first patenting of buspirone.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 05:59 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/MsjWPWjAerDtiQ3Do/on-the-independenc...
- This mixes up two different quantities. In the classic Ellsberg urn, the known probability is 1/3 for drawing red; under a uniform prior over black-ball counts, the expected probability of drawing black is also 1/3, not 1/2.
- For the growth-rate formula given just above, Jensen’s inequality does not produce a strict gap. That formula is affine in p, so averaging over p gives equality: E[g(p)] = g(E[p]).
- This conclusion is mathematically wrong for the growth formula given in the post. For that formula, averaging over urn compositions gives the same value as plugging in the average probability, not a strictly smaller one; and in the classic Ellsberg setup the known probability is 1/3, not 1/2.
Wikipedia Mar 13, 2026 at 05:31 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney_hunting_accident
- The parenthetical time conversion is wrong. The story was posted at 1:48 p.m. in Texas, and on February 12, 2006 Texas was still on Central Standard Time, so that corresponds to 19:48 UTC, not 07:48.
Substack Mar 13, 2026 at 05:14 PM
www.seeingthesystem.com/p/buying-back-our-slack
- Reporting on the incident says Coinbase did provide AI-adoption support, including company-paid coding-tool licenses, planned training, and recurring internal AI seminars.
- The 'product engineer' role did not originate with Perplexity; Asana was publicly describing software 'product engineers' doing cross-functional product-and-engineering work by 2016.
- The Whitehall research did not show that job control is the single strongest predictor of mortality overall. It found mortality gradients by employment grade, and later found low job control was one important contributor to a narrower coronary-heart-disease gradient.
- Armstrong did not fire everyone who had not onboarded. Reporting says some employees at the Saturday meeting gave valid reasons, and only some without a good reason were fired.
Wikipedia Mar 13, 2026 at 02:01 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untranslatability
- This is incorrect: wasabi is native not only to Japan, but also to Korea and Sakhalin / the Russian Far East.
- This is incorrect: Catalan has not always used that title. An earlier Catalan translation used a different title, “La importància d’ésser fidel.”
- This is incorrect: “La importancia de ser Franco” has in fact been used as a Spanish title for Oscar Wilde adaptations.
Wikipedia Mar 13, 2026 at 11:57 AM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%B5%E5%86%89
- 《以太》獲得第24屆中國科幻銀河獎「傑作獎」是在2013年11月，不是2012年。
Wikipedia Mar 13, 2026 at 11:50 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remedy_Entertainment
- This combines two roles Markus Mäki did not hold at the same time. Remedy’s official board page lists Henri Österlund as chairman since 2025, and its management page lists Jean-Charles Gaudechon as CEO since 2026.
- Remedy’s official shareholder notices do not support Tencent owning 14% here. Remedy said Tencent bought 3.8% in 2021, and a later April 26, 2024 stock-exchange release put Tencent at 14.80%, not 14%.
Wikipedia Mar 13, 2026 at 11:50 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Justice
- The co-author’s surname is misspelled here. The book’s author is Cynthia Littleton, not Cynthia Lilleton.
Wikipedia Mar 13, 2026 at 11:49 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Recent taxonomic literature puts Scoliidae at roughly 560 species worldwide, not around 300.
Wikipedia Mar 13, 2026 at 11:48 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wake_2
- This date is wrong: Remedy announced the Epic publishing deal on March 26, 2020, not in 2021.
- The timeline here is impossible: Remedy did not sign with Epic until March 26, 2020, and Remedy says the bigger Epic project entered full production in August 2021.
- Remedy said this comparison was for Alan Wake 2's first two months, not its first month.
X Mar 13, 2026 at 05:32 AM
x.com/ParkerThayer/status/2032197496370303317
- Authorities did identify the Michigan synagogue attacker. By the afternoon of March 12, news reports citing DHS named him as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41.