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LessWrong May 14, 2026 at 04:34 AM
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 01:08 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashlee_Vance
- Hello World’s Emmy nomination was announced in 2017, not 2016. The 38th News & Documentary Emmy Awards honored 2016 programming, which likely caused the mix-up.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 01:04 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year
- TIME’s 1950 selection was “the American Fighting-man,” not “The American Soldier.” Only the 2003 choice used “American soldier.”
- TIME did not list the 1966 choice as “The Inheritor” in its official cover/archive listings. The official label was “Twenty-Five and Under,” i.e. Americans under 25.
- In 1993, Arafat was not president of the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority was established in 1994, and Arafat was elected its president in 1996.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 01:02 AM
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- This misidentifies the institution. The official National Academies source lists Musk on the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council/National Academies, not as a member of the National Academy of Sciences itself.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 01:02 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy
- Citizens United did not remove campaign contribution limits. It struck down restrictions on certain independent expenditures, while contribution limits remained in place.
- Official records did not identify Elon Musk as DOGE’s formal head. The executive order put the DOGE temporary organization under the USDS Administrator, and the White House later said Musk was not the DOGE administrator.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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- To zbyt szerokie uogólnienie. Teatyni nie powstali jako zakon edukacyjny, lecz dla odnowy życia kościelnego i dyscypliny kleru; również jezuici podają, że pierwotnie nie zamierzali zakładać szkół.
LessWrong May 13, 2026 at 09:15 PM
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- This overstates the history of face recognition. Computers were recognizing faces decades before deep learning, using classical methods such as geometric-feature systems and eigenfaces/PCA-based approaches.
X May 13, 2026 at 09:06 PM
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- This universal claim is false. Meta/Facebook — one of the world's largest apps — has publicly documented that it stores photos in its own Haystack object-storage system, not Amazon S3.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 12:16 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_gold#Disposal
- This overstates Portugal’s role. Contemporary and archival sources say Portugal supplied roughly 50–60% of Germany’s wolfram requirement, with Spain supplying much of the rest.
- The amount said to have been returned is far too low. Official U.S. and Swiss sources say the 1946 Washington Agreement required Switzerland to transfer 250 million Swiss francs—about $58 million—in gold to the Allies, which is roughly 52 metric tonnes, not 3.6 tonnes.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 12:15 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization
- The quote is real, but the date is wrong. Biden made that remark at the NATO summit in Madrid on June 30, 2022, not on June 16, 2022.
- In December 2014, Poroshenko did not submit legislation for Ukraine to join NATO outright. He backed a law ending Ukraine's non-bloc status, which only removed a legal barrier and allowed a future NATO bid.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 12:14 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)
- This is incorrect: U-530 plainly had officers aboard, including its commanding officer, Otto Wermuth.
- This is incorrect: interrogation records show that Wermuth did explain both the long voyage and the missing documents.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 12:09 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_neutrality#Criticism
- This overstates Switzerland’s WWII mobilization. Official Swiss sources say the 1939 general mobilization brought 430,000 soldiers into service, plus about 200,000 men in complementary services—not 850,000 soldiers.
- This is incorrect: Swiss troops had already been deployed abroad long before Afghanistan, including in Korea from 1953 and in multiple peace-support missions from 1990 onward.
- This lists the wrong bodies. Switzerland’s Embargo Act refers to sanctions ordered by the UN, the OSCE, or Switzerland’s most important trading partners—not the OECD.
- This is outdated/incorrect. The initiative was certified in 2024, but the parliamentary process was still ongoing in March 2026, and Swiss media reported the vote was expected in 2026, not 2025.
- This misstates what the authority handled. The official report says it reviewed about 300 declarations by private security companies in 2015–2016, not 300 ‘approval requests’ in 2016 alone.