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LessWrong Sep 25, 2026 at 10:41 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/bhTCSdxF4gCuzzTRa/drawing-less-wrong...
- This greatly overstates how much time children typically spend on drawing or art. Reaching 10,000 hours by the start of high school would require roughly 17–20 hours every week for about a decade, but time-use surveys put children’s art activity far below that.
Wikipedia Sep 25, 2026 at 08:52 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI%E2%80%93HuggingFace_incident
- OpenAI’s own records place the breakout attempt on July 8, 2026, not July 9, 2026.
Wikipedia Sep 25, 2026 at 06:32 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalous_magnetic_dipole_moment#Elect...
- Using the theory and experiment values given here, they first differ at the 10th significant digit, so the agreement is about 9 significant figures, not more than 10.
X Sep 25, 2026 at 06:16 PM
x.com/eugyppius1/status/2103466955659268408
- That is not how Bundeswehr weapons procurement is officially described. For weapons-related systems such as drones, the Bundeswehr says contracts are concluded by its procurement office with industry/manufacturers, while BWI’s procurement role is limited to non-military IT and communications technology.
Wikipedia Sep 25, 2026 at 05:52 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_B%C3%B6k#Life_and_work
- This date is too late. Christian Bök was already working at Charles Darwin University in Australia by 2016, and was publicly listed there again in 2018.
Wikipedia Sep 25, 2026 at 04:30 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Scorpion
- This leaves out an important part of Celia’s method. She first says she poisoned Matt with foxglove, and only later switched to arsenic because foxglove was too dangerous to keep using.
Wikipedia Sep 25, 2026 at 04:03 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin
- Bei Tolkien sind „goblin“ und „orc“ im Wesentlichen Bezeichnungen für dieselbe Rasse; „hobgoblin“ bezeichnet in The Hobbit sogar die größeren Arten, nicht eine kleinere Unterart.
Wikipedia Sep 25, 2026 at 04:02 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin
- Orderic Vitalis’s story is about a demon driven from the temple of Diana at Évreux, not from a church.
- Tolkien did not use “goblin” for lesser orcs. He used “goblin” as a general translation of “orc,” and “hobgoblin” for larger kinds.
- This overstates Spider-Man 3: Harry Osborn is presented there as the New Goblin, not the Green Goblin.
X Sep 25, 2026 at 01:06 PM
x.com/langstonnashold/status/2102925964984623167
- The exploit attempt did not actually pass the grader. In a follow-up thread, the author says the malicious proof was caught by a regex check and only passed 10 of 11 test cases.
Wikipedia Sep 25, 2026 at 01:03 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI%E2%80%93HuggingFace_incident
- Albanese’s official transcript describes unauthorized access to a public-facing Medicare portal and says there was no broader Services Australia network compromise; he also stopped short of definitively calling it a world first.
X Sep 25, 2026 at 12:16 PM
x.com/joshua_saxe/status/2102979329911091245
- The cited Gambit report does not say about 100 businesses were compromised. It says 105 attack projects were launched, at least 27 companies were compromised, and the 600,000+ card records came from just two victim companies.
Wikipedia Sep 25, 2026 at 08:47 AM
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3%E...
- この地域区分は大ざっぱすぎて誤りです。少なくともラージャスターン州とマディヤ・プラデーシュ州には伝統的なシュヴェーターンバラ派の強い基盤があります。
Wikipedia Sep 24, 2026 at 08:37 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mancha_Negra
- The road was reported as a 30-year-old concrete highway that workers were patching with asphalt, not a 30-year-old asphalt road.
LessWrong Sep 24, 2026 at 08:16 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/veFMEzDDyWaer2Sms/sanity-checking-in...
- This is inaccurate because Mistral Medium 3.1 was a proprietary Mistral API model, not an open-source/open-weight model. DeepSeek-V3.1 was released with open-source weights, but Mistral Medium 3.1 was classified by Mistral as a commercial/Premier model.
X Sep 24, 2026 at 06:30 PM
x.com/NadeemNaqviNNg/status/2101999777231880323?s=46
- This mixes up which country’s mission opened in London. The UK government said it was a **Palestinian embassy in London**, while the UK’s own representation to Palestine is the British Consulate General in Jerusalem.
Wikipedia Sep 24, 2026 at 05:55 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_School
- The 2023 donation was not to a gubernatorial campaign. It went to Spirit of Virginia, Youngkin’s PAC/campaign committee, and Virginia governors cannot run for an immediate second term.
- Texas Education Agency did not cast the veto. TEA announced the result, but its own press release says the State Board of Education vetoed Valenta Academy’s charter.
- Alpha’s own New York materials do not show a pre-K program. Its 2025/26 brochure said the campus was serving K–8, and the current official campus page says K–12.
Wikipedia Sep 24, 2026 at 05:23 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancasila
- The MPR decree number is wrong here: the relevant 1983 decree is No. II/MPR/1983, not “11/1983.”
- This dates Sarekat Islam too early. Sources distinguish the precursor Sarekat Dagang Islam from Sarekat Islam itself, which was formally established under that name in 1912.
X Sep 24, 2026 at 05:21 PM
x.com/levelsio/status/2102855027236729032
- Official Dutch statistics do not show a continuous drop in crime after 2018. CBS says recorded crime has been stable for the past six years, and its 2025 Safety Monitor found traditional crime victimization unchanged from 2023.
- Dutch police and government guidance say people can still file reports for common crimes. Official police pages state that victims have the right to report crimes such as theft or vandalism, including online, by phone, or at a police station.
X Sep 24, 2026 at 05:12 PM
x.com/s8mb/status/2103126253012226363
- This misdescribes how bloomeries worked. Bloomery furnaces operated below iron’s melting point; they produced a solid spongy ‘bloom’ that had to be forged before it could be used.
- This overstates the historical evidence. Current scholarship does not treat iron as the literal single cause of the Bronze Age Collapse; technologically deterministic explanations have been abandoned, and iron adoption is often understood as a result of the wider upheavals rather than their cause.
Wikipedia Sep 24, 2026 at 02:12 PM
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B2%E...
- 古典的な出典では、プラトンの元の定義はすでに「羽のない二足動物」です。ディオゲネスの逸話の後で追加されたのは「平たい爪をもつ」であり、本文のように「まず二足動物、あとで毛のない動物に再定義した」という順序ではありません。