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Wikipedia Aug 3, 2026 at 01:08 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
- The translator's surname is Paul Patton, not "Paul Batton." Bibliographic records for the 1983 English translation list Paul Foss, Paul Patton, and Philip Beitchman.
- This mixes up two different English publications. Semiotext(e) published *Simulations* in 1983, but the first full-length English *Simulacra and Simulation* was published by the University of Michigan Press in 1994.
- Borges's story does not say the map grew or shrank with conquests and losses. It says later generations found the 1:1 map useless and abandoned it to the weather, leaving only tattered ruins.
- Borges's story does not end with the empire collapsing and only the map remaining. It says only tattered ruins of the map survive in the western deserts.
Wikipedia Aug 3, 2026 at 12:47 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
- Jack Clark is no longer Anthropic's head of policy. Anthropic said in March 2026 that he became Head of Public Benefit, while Sarah Heck leads the Public Policy team.
- Anthropic identified the Colossus 1 compute partnership as a deal with SpaceX, not xAI. Its official May 6, 2026 announcement repeatedly names SpaceX as the counterparty.
Wikipedia Aug 3, 2026 at 12:30 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_MacAskill
- United States v. Bankman-Fried was a criminal case against Samuel Bankman-Fried himself, not a case against his “corporate ventures.” DOJ materials identify the defendant as Samuel Bankman-Fried and say the indictment was unsealed on December 13, 2022.
- MacAskill did not leave his Oxford appointment after one year. His own website says he was an Associate Professor at Oxford from 2015 to 2024, and his CV lists the Lincoln College/Oxford post as beginning in August 2015.
Wikipedia Aug 3, 2026 at 12:23 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Jumper
- The Cambridge date is wrong. St Edmund’s College says Jumper completed that MPhil in 2008, not 2010.
Wikipedia Aug 3, 2026 at 12:22 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baker_(biochemist)
- Prospect Genomics was not acquired by a Lilly subsidiary in 2001. It was acquired by Structural GenomiX/SGX in May 2001, and Lilly moved to acquire SGX later, in 2008.
- AstraZeneca agreed to buy Icosavax in 2023, but the acquisition was completed in 2024. So the article's acquisition year is wrong.
- TED does not list an award called the 'Audacious Prize.' TED says the TED Prize became The Audacious Project in 2018, and UW describes Baker's institute as receiving support through The Audacious Project.
Wikipedia Aug 3, 2026 at 12:21 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3#Training_and_capabilities
- OpenAI’s own release notes do not show any April 10, 2023 launch of a model called “GPT-3.5 with Browsing (ALPHA).” OpenAI announced browsing for ChatGPT on March 23, 2023 and rolled web browsing to Plus users in beta on May 12, 2023.
- OpenAI’s official release notes say web browsing began rolling out to ChatGPT Plus users on May 12, 2023, not April 27, 2023.
Wikipedia Aug 3, 2026 at 12:16 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Christiano
- This misstates Christiano’s current NIST role. His current bio says he is a technical advisor at CAISI, and his official NIST page lists his 2024 title as Head of AI Safety for the U.S. AI Safety Institute—not Head of Safety for CAISI.
Wikipedia Aug 3, 2026 at 05:49 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Small_World
- The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair did not close in 1966; it closed in 1965.
- That opening date is wrong for the Disneyland version of the show; Disneyland's version began on January 27, 2011.
- Miguel and Dante were added to the Mexico scene, not the South America room.
Wikipedia Aug 3, 2026 at 05:32 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum
- This misstates sorghum taxonomy: bicolor, caudatum, durra, guinea, and kafir are races within the single species Sorghum bicolor, not separate species.
Wikipedia Aug 2, 2026 at 09:07 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haikou
- This infobox entry is out of date: Haikou's mayor is Zhang Yong, not Ding Hui.
- The school is no longer called Hainan Medical College; it was officially renamed Hainan Medical University in 2024.
- The completion timetable here is outdated. Official project sources still described the tower as under construction in 2024–2026, with completion projected for late 2026 or 2027, not 2020–2023.
Wikipedia Aug 2, 2026 at 09:05 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haikou_(disambiguation)
- This is administratively outdated/incorrect: Haikou is a town in **Fuqing City**, which is a county-level city under Fuzhou, not in “Fuqing County.”
X Aug 2, 2026 at 09:05 PM
x.com/polynoamial/status/2083467194663571701
- OpenAI’s own announcement does not say Astra solved ten open problems outright. It says the model produced ten results on long-open problems, and several listed items are partial advances like improved bounds or new lower bounds rather than complete problem solutions.
Wikipedia Aug 2, 2026 at 09:02 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Han_(historian)
- This compresses two different moves into one. Wu Han went to Yunnan University in 1937; National Southwestern Associated University was founded in Kunming in 1938, and Tsinghua says Wu transferred there in 1940.
- The June 1959 People's Daily essay was not titled "Hai Rui Dismissed from Office." It was "Hai Rui Scolds the Emperor" (海瑞骂皇帝), published under Wu Han's pen name Liu Mianzhi.
- This is too broad and incorrect. Ming history was not generally a taboo subject under the Qing: the Qing court itself commissioned the official History of Ming, and scholars in the late Ming/early Qing produced many private Ming-history works.
Wikipedia Aug 2, 2026 at 08:51 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auswandererschutzgesetz
- Das Auswandererschutzgesetz verbietet nach seinem aktuellen Wortlaut zwar geschäftsmäßige Werbung für Auswanderung, enthält aber keine Regel über ein Verbot von Prämien oder Reisekostenzuschüssen und auch keine Ausnahme für „Mobilitätsstipendien“ in EU-Mitgliedstaaten.
Wikipedia Aug 2, 2026 at 08:47 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hai_Rui_Dismissed_from_Office
- Reliable sources place the play's first staging in 1961, not 1962.
Wikipedia Aug 2, 2026 at 07:06 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hai_Rui#/media/File:Hairui.jpg
- This caption misidentifies the location. Hai Rui's tomb is in Haikou, Hainan, while the Temple of Heaven is a separate imperial site in Beijing.
Wikipedia Aug 2, 2026 at 06:53 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Muhammad
- Authoritative histories place Elijah Muhammad’s leadership of the Nation of Islam beginning in 1934, after Wallace Fard disappeared, not 1933.
Wikipedia Aug 2, 2026 at 06:52 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Fard_Muhammad
- This overstates the historical meaning of “Turk.” In U.S. usage, “Turk” primarily referred to Turkish/Ottoman people and was also applied broadly to Ottoman immigrants, including some non-Muslims; it did not simply mean “a Muslim.”
Wikipedia Aug 2, 2026 at 06:51 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam
- This misstates NOI organizational roles. Nation of Islam mosques are led by ministers; a captain is a separate Fruit of Islam or M.G.T. position, not the mosque’s top leader.
Wikipedia Aug 2, 2026 at 06:43 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou
- This appears to misstate Angelou’s age when her son was born. Multiple reliable biographies say she gave birth in 1944, when she was 16, not 17.
- The age here is off by a year. Reliable biographies place the birth of Angelou’s son in 1944, when she was 16, so 1944 does not correspond to age 17.
- The year is off here. Wake Forest and Biography.com both place Angelou’s appointment as Reynolds Professor in 1982, not 1981.