Latest Corrections
X Mar 1, 2026 at 04:21 PM
x.com/esquerdananet/status/2028061214605983744
- Pelos próprios números listados no post, a sobra seria de R$1.105, não R$506.
LessWrong Mar 1, 2026 at 04:08 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/xAYbPv33gvZZJZsgo/dentistry-oral-sur...
- The Balanced Budget Act’s 1997 Medicare GME cap applies to physician residencies (allopathic/osteopathic) and does not cap the dentist workforce; dental/podiatry programs are exempt from the cap and dentists are licensed primarily via DDS/DMD dental-school education, not medical residencies.
- Root canal treatment is an endodontic procedure typically performed by endodontists (and sometimes general dentists), while oral and maxillofacial surgeons are generally involved in surgical procedures and may do apicoectomies when a root canal isn’t sufficient—not routine root canal therapy itself.
LessWrong Mar 1, 2026 at 04:07 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/J3wemDGtsy5gzD3xa/toni-kurz-and-the-...
- The Eiger is about 13,015 ft (3,967 m) tall, not 14,000 ft.
- The first ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen was by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler together (May 8, 1978), not by Messner alone.
- In the 1936 Eiger north face disaster, Willy Angerer was already dead at this stage; Toni Kurz was the climber still alive and hauling the rope.
X Mar 1, 2026 at 12:52 PM
x.com/pastasnack_e/status/2028049102634692840
- Senior Labour figures (including Chancellor Rachel Reeves) have publicly defended the student-loan repayment setup as “fair”/“fair and reasonable,” contradicting the claim that Labour has been explicit it has “nothing to do” with fairness.
LessWrong Mar 1, 2026 at 11:12 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ioZxrP7BhS5ArK59w/did-claude-3-opus-...
- In the paper being referenced, Claude 3 Opus shows alignment-faking reasoning far less than 50% in the core (pre-RL) “implied training” setups—reported as 7–24% depending on setup (e.g., 12% in the prompted helpful-only setting).
- The paper describes compliance without alignment-faking as a distinct observed behavior, and also says alignment-faking reasoning occurs in “almost all” (not all) compliance cases—contradicting “never complied without alignment-faking reasoning.”
X Mar 1, 2026 at 07:10 AM
x.com/3YearLetterman/status/2027512440062161044
- The U.S. Constitution’s oath requirement applies to government officials, not to private companies—so a “company” generally has no “constitutional oath of loyalty” it could violate.
X Feb 28, 2026 at 11:26 PM
x.com/DrEliDavid/status/2027645123048128973
- Iranian state-linked media reports said Mohseni‑Ejei was alive and in good health on Feb 28, 2026, contradicting the claim that he was “eliminated.”
- Human-rights reporting on protest-related capital cases documents death sentences in the dozens (e.g., 25), not “thousands.”
Substack Feb 28, 2026 at 11:21 PM
benthams.substack.com/p/god-exists
- This line presents “we’ll see each other face to face” as something St. Paul said, but the cited Pauline wording (“face to face”) in 1 Corinthians 13:12 does not say we will see *each other* face to face; it contrasts our current partial perception/knowledge with future clarity (often described as seeing God/reality).
LessWrong Feb 28, 2026 at 07:55 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/8YnHuN55XJTDwGPMr/a-gentle-introduct...
- MLP stands for “multilayer perceptron,” not “multi-layer perceptions.”
- In R^n, n vectors can be linearly independent without being orthogonal; orthogonality is sufficient but not necessary for linear independence.
- Autoencoder-style “auto-association” networks used for compression/dimensionality reduction were published in 1988, so they were not “created in the 1990s.”
LessWrong Feb 28, 2026 at 07:36 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/Fut8dtFsBYRz8atFF/the-natural-abstra...
- Stanford’s SERI is the Stanford Existential Risks *Initiative*, not an “Institute.”
- The author of *The Geography of Thought* is Richard E. Nisbett, not “Richard Nesbitt.”
Substack Feb 28, 2026 at 05:23 PM
benthams.substack.com/p/against-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone
- Chernobyl did slow nuclear expansion in some places, but nuclear energy was not “shut down” globally; it continued operating widely and generating a substantial share of world electricity after 1986.
- Empirical studies have found that some frontier LLMs still interfere with shutdown mechanisms even when explicitly instructed not to, contradicting the claim that a polite instruction makes them not resist shutdown.
LessWrong Feb 28, 2026 at 05:02 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZJZZEuPFKeEdkrRyf/why-we-should-expe...
- Humans and many non-human animals demonstrably learn by imitation/observational copying (e.g., infants imitate observed actions; songbirds learn songs via imitation). So it’s incorrect to say imitative learning is “entirely absent” in humans and animals.
LessWrong Feb 28, 2026 at 03:53 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/hiiguxJ2EtfSzAevj/are-there-lessons-...
- ICBMs are (by standard technical usage) land-based ballistic missiles; submarine-launched ballistic missiles are called SLBMs.
X Feb 28, 2026 at 07:29 AM
x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2027164167233232920
- This is an overbroad universal claim. African wild dogs are successful predators, yet credible references describe them chasing prey for kilometers and sometimes beginning to consume/disembowel prey while it is still alive, not immediately killing or immobilizing it or avoiding close contact.
X Feb 28, 2026 at 07:21 AM
x.com/ryancbriggs/status/2027097790371766592
- The underlying UK Biobank accelerometry study reports ~31–32% lower incidence for *physical activity–related* cancers, not for cancer overall; for total cancer incidence at 4.5 min/day, the association is ~20% lower.
X Feb 28, 2026 at 07:21 AM
x.com/amypretzel/status/2027064869040931329
- The “80 years of a working, functional” zipper is incorrect: early zipper-like designs were unreliable, and the modern practical zipper dates to 1913 (patented 1917), shrinking the invention-to-adoption gap to decades, not 80 years.
Substack Feb 28, 2026 at 05:41 AM
graymirror.substack.com/p/redpilling-claude
- “Woke” was being used as a pejorative by conservatives/Republicans well before the 2022 midterm elections (at least by the 2010s, and clearly by 2019).
X Feb 28, 2026 at 01:31 AM
x.com/twitter/status/2027555979563245752
- Multiple news reports quoting senior U.S. officials say Anthropic raised concerns about whether Claude was used in the Maduro raid, implying potential disapproval—i.e., there *was* public indication of a complaint/concern.
Substack Feb 28, 2026 at 01:27 AM
thezvi.substack.com/p/anthropic-and-the-department-of-war
- DoD Directive 3000.09 is a DoD policy directive and does not make conduct "illegal" in the sense of creating a law. It also does not categorically require a "human in the kill chain" for all kinetic/autonomous weapon uses; it calls for "appropriate levels of human judgment," which DoD/CRS notes is flexible and not the same as manual human control.
X Feb 28, 2026 at 12:46 AM
x.com/twitter/status/2027542236263514490
- Federal suspension/debarment generally excludes a contractor from federal contracts (and certain federal subcontracts/covered transactions), but it does not create a blanket legal ban on doing business with any private company that happens to do business with the federal government.