Latest Corrections
Wikipedia Sep 9, 2026 at 05:01 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_lab
- This misdefines proteomics. Proteomics is the large-scale study of all proteins in a cell, tissue, or organism, not specifically the elucidation of unknown protein structures and folding patterns.
- This is misleading because Ramachandran plotting is not a protein-structure determination technique. A Ramachandran plot is mainly a tool for visualizing allowed backbone angles and for validating already solved or modeled protein structures.
Substack Sep 9, 2026 at 08:16 AM
bafriedman.substack.com/p/recon-strike-battle
- The official Marine Corps concept is called Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), not "Expeditionary Advance Base Operations."
Wikipedia Sep 9, 2026 at 07:51 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Anyone_Builds_It,_Everyone_Dies
- The page count is wrong. Official publisher listings for this book’s hardback edition give 272 pages, not 256.
Substack Sep 9, 2026 at 07:17 AM
thezvi.substack.com/p/frontier-lab-employee-open-letter?r=67...
- Anthropic’s Claude Code creator is Boris Cherny, not “Boris Cherney.”
Substack Sep 9, 2026 at 07:12 AM
thezvi.substack.com/p/the-pacing-of-the-frontier
- OpenAI did not say it had solved 10 open math problems; its August 1 announcement said the ten results either resolved or made substantial progress on long-standing problems, including theoretical computer science problems.
LessWrong Sep 9, 2026 at 06:56 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/6j3kBHdowGLCeqobg/dear-god-please-do...
- Kokotajlo later said he ultimately kept the equity, and OpenAI said it never canceled vested equity. He was at risk of losing the money, but did not in fact lose it.
X Sep 9, 2026 at 05:55 AM
x.com/lu_sichu/status/2097444147485720580
- This is incorrect: Tao did post about the proof itself, summarizing the result and its main ideas on Mastodon and in a blog post.
X Sep 9, 2026 at 04:21 AM
x.com/allTheYud/status/2097405619720573334
- This misdescribes the paper. The referenced work was not an 18-month longitudinal study of Llama 3.2; Llama 3.2 was released on September 25, 2024, and the paper was first submitted on January 24, 2025, while the paper’s “18-month” wording refers to benchmark data spanning historical months.
Substack Sep 9, 2026 at 04:11 AM
partialagonism.substack.com/p/if-ai-is-so-smart-why-hasnt-it...
- This is incorrect because daptomycin (Cubicin), approved later in 2003, was also described by Merck as a blockbuster antibiotic with about $1 billion in trailing-12-month U.S. revenue.
X Sep 8, 2026 at 09:43 PM
x.com/Mihonarium/status/2097400906207703467
- OpenAI’s own timeline does not say this. It says the rumor concerned both Levent Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster, and that OpenAI started its Navier–Stokes effort on September 1; the concurrent-release offer came later, on September 6, after OpenAI says its proof and Lean verification were already complete.
LessWrong Sep 8, 2026 at 08:22 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-st...
- That is not what the Palisade paper reported. The 36% figure referred to hacking attempts in o1-preview runs overall, using several different methods; the paper also says o3-mini showed no hacking attempts.
Wikipedia Sep 8, 2026 at 07:27 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EleutherAI
- EleutherAI’s own one-year retrospective places the founding of the LibreAI/EleutherAI Discord server on July 7, 2020, not July 3, 2020.
- This mixes several different EleutherAI model families together. GPT-Neo models included 125M, 350M, 1.3B, and 2.7B; 6B is GPT-J, and 20B is GPT-NeoX-20B.
- GPT-J-6B was not released in March 2021. EleutherAI’s own retrospective records its release on June 9, 2021.
Wikipedia Sep 8, 2026 at 07:27 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_Corpus
- EDRM Enron v2 is not over 1.7 million messages. That figure refers to the broader corpus total when attachments/documents are included; the message count itself is about 1.2–1.3 million.
Substack Sep 8, 2026 at 07:25 PM
www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/what-i-learned-from-the-creators
- The Pile was not the first public massive language-model training dataset. Google had already publicly released C4, another massive pretraining corpus for language models, months earlier in 2020.
X Sep 8, 2026 at 06:40 PM
x.com/mitduckmaster/status/2097389336673079300
- As of September 8, 2026, Navier–Stokes was still officially listed by the Clay Mathematics Institute as an unsolved Millennium Prize Problem, not a solved one.
Wikipedia Sep 8, 2026 at 06:03 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal
- Harry M. Daugherty was attorney general, not president. Official U.S. government biographies show he served as Attorney General under Presidents Harding and Coolidge.
- The Senate's own history says Senator John B. Kendrick introduced the Teapot Dome resolution on April 15, 1922, not April 12.
- Robert La Follette helped initiate the inquiry, but Senate histories identify Thomas J. Walsh as the senator who chaired and led the Teapot Dome investigation.
- DOE records say Teapot Dome was not idle for 49 years: there were exploratory and offset wells in the 1950s and 1960s, and another DOE document says production resumed in a limited program from 1959 to 1976.
- The law did not give Congress as a whole subpoena power over tax records. It gave specific tax committees access by written request, and Congress's broader subpoena power was recognized separately by the Supreme Court.
X Sep 8, 2026 at 05:55 PM
x.com/420stonerman69/status/2096521254513586488
- This is incorrect: contemporaneous TV coverage on September 11, 2001 did include live reports and footage of people falling or jumping from the World Trade Center.
X Sep 8, 2026 at 05:21 PM
x.com/basedjensen/status/2097200251312701479
- Buckmaster and Alpöge did not publicly announce a Navier–Stokes solution. Their released results were for related equations including 3D Euler, which experts describe as major progress toward Navier–Stokes, not a completed solution.
X Sep 8, 2026 at 03:27 PM
x.com/farhip/status/2096996832580681906
- This is incorrect: archival photo sources do show Donald Trump at a beach, including at Atlantic Beach in Amagansett in August 1996.
- This is also incorrect: archival photos place Trump on a beach and at a beach party, including one Getty image of him playing volleyball at Atlantic Beach.
X Sep 8, 2026 at 02:56 PM
x.com/natolambert/status/2097320558559895862
- Anthropic has publicly said its researchers have analyzed de-identified responses from specific Claude users, and its support docs say a small number of personnel involved in model training may review chats users share for improvement. So the chance is not literally 0%.