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LessWrong Mar 8, 2026 at 03:54 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/9woCWqiDbSFPXpxvn/the-current-sota-m...
- OpenAI did publish a GPT-5.2 system card on December 11, 2025, the same day GPT-5.2 Pro launched. The card was not Pro-specific, but saying GPT-5.2 Pro launched without any system card is incorrect.
Wikipedia Mar 8, 2026 at 01:53 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenada
- This overstates Grenada’s law. Grenadian law criminalizes certain consensual same-sex sexual acts between men, not “homosexuality” in general.
- Grenada’s official tourism guidance gives different operating hours for local buses: 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday to Saturday.
LessWrong Mar 7, 2026 at 11:53 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/GgCgRqKkkqsrxZFu5/alignment-does-not...
- The cited Palisade result was about **o1-preview**, not the later **o1** model. OpenAI separately identifies o1 as the successor to o1-preview.
LessWrong Mar 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/FG6icLPKizEaWHex5/announcing-apollo-...
- This funding figure is garbled. Apollo's original announcement said "$4-6M," and the LessWrong post itself says the figure was later updated on June 4 to "$7-10M"—not both at once.
LessWrong Mar 7, 2026 at 09:26 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/XRADGH4BpRKaoyqcs/the-first-confirme...
- The paper says the first warning came from security telemetry and firewall alerts, not from resource-usage metrics.
LessWrong Mar 7, 2026 at 06:11 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/c4LYmzEC6cFQzrDZz/probing-codi-s-lat...
- The arithmetic answer to this prompt is 24, not 10.
- For this prompt, 10 is not the answer; the correct final total is 24.
Substack Mar 7, 2026 at 06:05 PM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/seiu-delenda-est
- California does not have a single current signature threshold for all statewide initiatives. The Secretary of State says initiative statutes need 546,651 signatures, while constitutional amendments need 874,641.
- SEIU-UHW was already using withdrawn health-care initiatives in 2012, so 2014 was not its first such ballot-measure campaign. The linked Legislative Analyst page is also for the 'Fair Healthcare Pricing Act of 2012,' not 2014.
Substack Mar 7, 2026 at 06:02 PM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/next-token-predictor-is-an-ais-job
- Entorhinal cells are not in the hippocampus; they are in the entorhinal cortex, a neighboring region that connects with the hippocampus.
LessWrong Mar 7, 2026 at 03:09 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/LXQBcztrWKhtcgQfJ/current-activation...
- Qwen3-8B is not a 32-layer model. Its official config lists 36 hidden layers, so describing the 8B model’s halfway point as “layer 16/32” is incorrect.
LessWrong Mar 7, 2026 at 02:45 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/NbQR95tgonXW2xMcQ/your-causal-variab...
- This is incorrect: standard structural causal model frameworks already include deterministic causal models, so deterministic neural computations do not by themselves make neural-network-level causal models ill-formed. Beckers et al. (2023) extends SCMs to handle constraint relations, not to make deterministic systems representable.
Wikipedia Mar 7, 2026 at 08:50 AM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%95%88%E7%8E%87%E5%B8%82%E5%A0%B4%E...
- 把有效市场假说说成是尤金·法马“于1970年……提出”的说法不准确。法马本人写明“market efficiency/efficient markets”这些术语首先出现在他1965年的论文中；诺奖资料也将1970年论文描述为一篇综述性框架文章，而不是首次提出该假说。
Wikipedia Mar 7, 2026 at 08:46 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/710s_BC
- Monte Albán was founded by Zapotec people around 500 BC, not by the Olmecs in 713 BC.
- The traditional story credits Numa with adding about 50 days, not 5, when reorganizing the early Roman calendar.
Wikipedia Mar 7, 2026 at 08:42 AM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%8D718%E5%B9%B4
- 前718年并不是“辛酉年（豬年）”。换算表显示前718年对应的是癸亥年；而且“辛酉”本身对应酉支，也就是鸡年，不是猪年。
Wikipedia Mar 7, 2026 at 08:07 AM
wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A0%87%E5%87%86%E5%90%B4%E8%AF%AD
- `wuu` is the ISO 639-3 code for Wu Chinese as a whole, not for this internet-created “Standard Wu / Lowland Wu” proposal.
LessWrong Mar 7, 2026 at 05:28 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/HuoyYQ6mFhS5pfZ4G
- The paper describes a second reliable way to pass this environment: editing `verifier.py` so it always accepts. Reading the answer from the script is not the only route.
- The paper says the regex/string-match monitor searched for the phrase “ground truth,” not “verifier.”
- This is not true for the polynomial derivative environment: the paper explicitly says the task can be solved via the product rule without writing the expanded derivative.
Wikipedia Mar 7, 2026 at 03:29 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
- The number is missing exponential notation. Sources describing Jonathan Basile’s site say it contains about 10^4677 books, not 104,677 books.
LessWrong Mar 6, 2026 at 07:43 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/rWc6BT8BcoPhwcbSs/ai-safety-has-12-m...
- This overstates how far EU AI regulation has been delayed. The EU AI Act already has obligations in force, with major milestones in 2025 and 2026 and full roll-out by August 2, 2027—not a general push to 2027–2028.
LessWrong Mar 6, 2026 at 06:14 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/TMFNQoRZxM4CuRCY6/reason-isn-t-magic
- This overstates the history. Historical sources say cassava-processing knowledge traveled to Africa with the crop, and African traditional processing methods likely derive from Indigenous American techniques rather than being simply omitted.
LessWrong Mar 6, 2026 at 06:14 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/xCWiFGezwMPswZ6Ea/is-gdp-a-kind-of-f...
- The SoftBank Vision Fund was not a $45 billion fund. $45 billion was the size of Saudi PIF’s planned commitment; SoftBank said the fund’s overall size could reach $100 billion and announced a first close with over $93 billion committed.
- Davis & Palumbo (2006) did not estimate land’s share for all U.S. residential real estate; they estimated it for 46 large U.S. metropolitan areas (an average across their city sample).
LessWrong Mar 6, 2026 at 06:13 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/N9oKuQKuf7yvCCtfq/can-crimes-be-disc...
- This leaves out a key legal qualification: plea colloquies ask about force, threats, or promises **other than those in the plea agreement**. Plea bargains themselves commonly include disclosed promises such as dropped charges or sentencing recommendations.