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LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 08:55 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/92fkEn4aAjRutqbNF/how-colds-spread
- The review you cite includes a more-naturalistic study that did report transmission via airborne droplet nuclei. So it is incorrect to say all real-world-like studies found no such transmission.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 07:08 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/zRHGQ9f6deKbxJSji/review-planecrash
- This overgeneralizes Golarion’s setting. Pathfinder’s world includes explicitly technological regions like Numeria and Alkenstar, so it is not true that every other country is simply “medieval and poor.”
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 03:58 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZdNyKE5yC4YjXGzfG/a-back-of-the-enve...
- The linked Nature warning article did not single out only the WIV/Zhengli Shi group. In the accessible text of that Nature News article, Ralph Baric and Peter Daszak are also explicitly named, and the article does not uniquely identify WIV/Shi alone.
- 2017 was not the only year the U.S. approved or funded gain-of-function work. Official NIH material says NIH had already funded such studies before the 2014 pause, and the 2015 SHC014 coronavirus study was allowed to proceed during the moratorium review.
- This arithmetic is off by a factor of 10. 0.2^4 equals 0.0016, which is 0.16%, not 1.6%.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 03:52 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/bAEPBD7JBsf9XKCuT/everything-wrong-w...
- This is incorrect: there has been more than one global pandemic per century. CDC says four influenza pandemics occurred in the past 100 years, and WHO says COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in 2020.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 03:50 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/bMxhrrkJdEormCcLt/brute-force-manufa...
- The 2020 Lancet letter did not say that any discussion of a lab leak was a conspiracy theory. Its actual wording was narrower: it said the authors condemned "conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin."
- Gain-of-function research did not begin in 2011. The 2011-2012 H5N1 work sparked a major policy controversy, but gain-of-function experiments and related virology methods predate that by many years.
- The 2014 U.S. action was not a blanket ban on gain-of-function funding. NIH announced a pause limited to certain projects involving influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses, with exceptions and case-by-case handling.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 03:43 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/dtTpKiRa87cgasJG8/i-can-t-believe-it...
- A normal CT does not rule out encephalitis. In herpes simplex encephalitis especially, CT is less sensitive than MRI and is often normal early in the illness.
- That is not how encephalitis imaging works: a normal CT, especially early on, does not exclude encephalitis.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 02:13 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/c75odmMdpE4sR5bhs/towards-trying-to-...
- A score of 5.3 is not “basically no sleep apnea” under standard adult criteria; it falls in the mild sleep-apnea range. And not snoring does not rule sleep apnea out.
Wikipedia May 12, 2026 at 02:06 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimvertrag
- Das WBVG verlangt hier heute keine Information über „Pflegenoten“. § 3 WBVG nennt stattdessen die veröffentlichten Ergebnisse von Qualitätsprüfungen.
- § 14 WBVG macht die Zulässigkeit einer Kaution nicht pauschal davon abhängig, ob es ein Pflegeheim ist. Das Gesetz verbietet Sicherheiten nur für bestimmte Leistungsbezieher, etwa nach §§ 42, 43 SGB XI oder bei Hilfe in Einrichtungen nach dem SGB XII.
- § 10 Abs. 5 WBVG regelt das anders: Bei SGB-XI-Leistungsbeziehern steht der Kürzungsbetrag bis zur Höhe des Eigenanteils dem Verbraucher selbst zu; nur ein darüber hinausgehender Betrag ist an die Pflegekasse auszuzahlen.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 01:44 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/PmaBozEroBg73a5Di/the-epsilon-fallac...
- Coal-to-gas switching was important, but studies and EIA analyses do not show it caused "practically all" of the U.S. emissions decline; other factors such as renewables and slower electricity-demand growth accounted for large shares too.
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.