Latest Corrections
Wikipedia Mar 17, 2026 at 03:42 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timnit_Gebru
- Gebru and Buolamwini’s Gender Shades paper did not measure whether Black women were "recognized" less often than White men. It evaluated commercial gender-classification systems and found much higher misclassification rates for darker-skinned women.
LessWrong Mar 17, 2026 at 03:30 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/GCHyDKfPXa5qsG2cP/human-study-on-ai-...
- The paper supports up to roughly 50x higher profitability in some modeled scenarios, not a 50x reduction in costs. Its own table shows AI lowers labor time but has higher fixed per-email costs than manual phishing.
LessWrong Mar 17, 2026 at 02:59 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gEETjfjm3eCkJKesz/why-i-transitioned...
- In Blanchard’s typology, HSTS stands for “homosexual transsexuals,” not “heterosexual transexuals.”
- Blanchard’s autogynephilic category was not limited to straight men; he also included bisexual and asexual/analloerotic males.
LessWrong Mar 17, 2026 at 02:59 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/zXq7dpyj2ik9GcR5t/my-model-of-gender...
- The cited review does not report that about 10% of XX people with CAH simply 'identify as men.' Its 10.1% figure is for patients who were raised male, while the review separately reports 9% declared gender dysphoria and notes many cases were gender-fluid rather than a formal male identity.
- The cited paper and correction do not show that gender-affirming medical care in general fails to reduce psychiatric medication use relative to untreated dysphoria. The original study only tested associations with hormones and surgery inside a diagnosed Swedish cohort, and the correction says the reanalysis showed no advantage of surgery in that retrospective comparison.
LessWrong Mar 17, 2026 at 02:48 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/xYn3CKir4bTMzY5eb/why-have-sentence-...
- This misstates the Flesch-Kincaid math. In the standard formula, one grade-level change corresponds to about 2.6 words per sentence or 0.085 syllables per word, and adding either of those makes text harder, not easier.
Wikipedia Mar 17, 2026 at 02:44 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_Holdings
- The appeal was not simply 'upheld.' In December 2024, Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal said Celsius had shown error on damages, reversed on that issue, and remanded for further proceedings.
- This heading is incorrect because not all of the listed current lines are sold as 12 oz cans. Celsius On-The-Go is sold as powder stick packets, not cans.
Wikipedia Mar 17, 2026 at 02:43 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Feeling_(song)
- This phrase is inaccurate: “Good Feeling” is credited as produced by Dr. Luke and Cirkut, while “Wake Me Up” is credited to Avicii (Tim Berg) and Ash Pournouri.
Wikipedia Mar 17, 2026 at 02:43 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_House_(Flo_Rida_song)
- This is outdated. RIAA later certified Flo Rida’s “My House” at 6× Platinum, not 4× Platinum.
- Nielsen’s official year-end U.S. music report ranked “My House” No. 3 among 2016 digital song sales, not No. 2.
Wikipedia Mar 17, 2026 at 02:42 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_on_Sunday_(album)
- This UK certification level is incorrect. Contemporary trade coverage of BPI awards lists *Mail on Sunday* as Gold in the United Kingdom, not Silver.
LessWrong Mar 17, 2026 at 02:39 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/xWTSHJASRaLABgHWc/neuroscience-basic...
- This sentence reverses the direction of the cue. If a sound reaches the right ear first, that indicates a source on the right, not the left.
- This overstates the role of visual experience. Ocular dominance columns are not present in all mammals, and in primates such as macaques they can still form without visual experience, including after dark rearing.
LessWrong Mar 17, 2026 at 02:32 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/k8mwvvvpjMGcZLAKH/the-case-for-lifel...
- This reverses the established risk relationship. Better cardiovascular and lifestyle health is associated with a lower later-life dementia risk, not a higher one.
- The hippocampus is vital for forming and consolidating memories, but long-term memories are not primarily stored there. Long-term storage is distributed across cortical networks.
Wikipedia Mar 17, 2026 at 01:43 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_polyhedron
- Plato did not assign the five regular solids to “earth, air, fire, water and spirit.” In the Timaeus, four solids are assigned to the four classical elements, while the dodecahedron is linked to the cosmos as a whole.
Wikipedia Mar 17, 2026 at 01:20 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jesuit_educational_institution...
- Loyola Public School in Guntur is a school for classes I–X, not a university.
- The Beijing Center is a study-abroad and research center, not a university.
- Collège Notre-Dame de Jamhour is a secondary school, not a university.
- The University of Buenos Aires is a public autonomous university, not a Jesuit-run institution.
- The Catholic University of Táchira is a university, not a secondary school.
- Loyola College, Chennai is a higher-education college, not a secondary school.
LessWrong Mar 17, 2026 at 01:14 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/CYN7swrefEss4e3Qe/childhoods-of-exce...
- This is too absolute: Woolf did attend formal classes at King’s College London’s Ladies’ Department from 1897 to 1902.
LessWrong Mar 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/fdEWWr8St59bXLbQr/zombies-zombies
- This misidentifies both Hameroff’s field and the Penrose–Hameroff view. Hameroff is an anesthesiologist, and Orch OR is presented by its authors as a physical theory about quantum processes in brain neurons, not substance dualism.
LessWrong Mar 17, 2026 at 12:31 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/7HMSBiEiCfLKzd2gc/quantum-mechanics-...
- This bundles together several different cases, but acceleration and rotation are not like absolute position or constant velocity: they are locally measurable. Accelerometers detect proper acceleration, and gyroscopes detect rotation/angular rate.
LessWrong Mar 17, 2026 at 12:22 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ftQmSDujzgiEujwA/epstein-and-my-wor...
- This is contradicted by the publicly reported findings in John Barnett’s case: Charleston police concluded he died by suicide, and even his family’s later wrongful-death lawsuit described Boeing’s conduct as leading to a foreseeable suicide, not an assassination.
LessWrong Mar 17, 2026 at 12:03 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/aaHDA4X6cTzFrvuSX/harms-and-possibil...
- The linked article is about a school case in Ireland, not the UK. It references Irish institutions including Gardaí and Tusla and uses Irish school terminology such as “fifth class.”
LessWrong Mar 17, 2026 at 12:01 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/JnKCaGcgZL4Rsep8m/schools-proliferat...
- This absolute claim is incorrect: by the late 20th century, psychotherapies such as cognitive therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy had already been tested in many controlled trials and shown efficacy for some conditions.
- This is too absolute. Controlled trials have found statistically significant differences between psychotherapies for some disorders—for example, CBT and prolonged exposure have outperformed supportive therapies in randomized trials.
Substack Mar 17, 2026 at 12:00 AM
minicities.org/p/how-miniature-cities-can-interact
- This absolute claim overstates how KidZania works. KidZania’s own materials describe citywide links between activities through a shared currency and bank, and links to the outside world through official brand partnerships.