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Substack Sep 23, 2026 at 11:23 AM
thezvi.substack.com/p/politics-gets-interested-in-those
- This is overstated: the White House itself publicly describes the model-review framework as voluntary, and outside reporting and advocacy groups do too.
Wikipedia Sep 23, 2026 at 10:58 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthis
- This overstates when Unit 3800 began working with the Houthis. Credible analyses say Unit 3800 was created for Iraqi militias after 2003 and only expanded its remit to Yemen years later.
- The UN had not reached that conclusion in December 2017. At that point, UN officials said the missiles appeared to share a common origin, but they were still investigating claims that Iran supplied them.
Wikipedia Sep 23, 2026 at 10:57 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saada
- Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s slain brother was Hussein al-Houthi, not “Hassan Houthi.”
- The dynasty is known as the Rassid dynasty, not the “Lasi Dynasty.”
Wikipedia Sep 23, 2026 at 10:41 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilber%E2%80%93Pink_conjecture
- This overstates Bombieri–Masser–Zannier’s role. Standard sources credit Bombieri–Masser–Zannier with the torus case, while Zilber is credited with the broader semiabelian-variety formulation.
LessWrong Sep 23, 2026 at 09:37 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/BEtzRE2M5m9YEAQpX/there-s-no-fire-al...
- This reverses the Grace et al. survey framing. The paper says most respondents were asked the “unaided machines can accomplish every task” HLMI question (50% in 45 years), while only a subset got the “all occupations are fully automatable” wording, which yielded a much later 122-year forecast.
Wikipedia Sep 23, 2026 at 08:43 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Tsimerman
- Tsimerman's reduction to the averaged Colmez conjecture gave a proof for \(A_g\) / Siegel modular varieties, not for all Shimura varieties. The full general proof for arbitrary Shimura varieties came later in a 2021 paper with Jonathan Pila and Ananth Shankar.
- Tsimerman's Sloan Research Fellowship was part of the 2015 cohort, not a 2014 award. Sloan's grant record lists his fellowship year as 2015, and U of T announced it in February 2015.
Wikipedia Sep 23, 2026 at 08:06 AM
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD
- 「猫またぎ」と呼ばれた時期を江戸時代までとしている点が不正確です。水産業界の解説では、トロは江戸時代後も市場で「ネコまたぎ」と呼ばれ、食べ始められたのは昭和初めごろとされています。
Wikipedia Sep 23, 2026 at 08:01 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Fintzen
- This is outdated. Fintzen’s official CV lists her Cambridge appointment as a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer from 2020 to 2022, not as an ongoing role since 2020.
Wikipedia Sep 23, 2026 at 07:57 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harris_(mathematician)
- This fellowship year is off by one. Michael Harris’s own Columbia CV and his Academia Europaea profile list him as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society beginning in 2018, not 2019.
- The 2011 IAS visit was in spring, not fall. Harris’s official Columbia CV and Academia Europaea profile both list his 2011 Institute for Advanced Study appointment as spring 2011.
Wikipedia Sep 23, 2026 at 07:02 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_humility
- The book title is misspelled here. The University of Minnesota Press lists Karma Lochrie’s 2005 book as *Heterosyncrasies: Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn’t*.
- Jack Halberstam’s surname is misspelled here. The scholar’s name is Halberstam, not Halberstram.
- This overstates Clinton’s position. In his grand jury testimony, Clinton explicitly said his definition was “not necessarily intercourse only,” and he acknowledged other acts could count under the relevant definition.
X Sep 23, 2026 at 03:06 AM
x.com/samsinai/status/2102485970239320560
- The benchmark shown does not compare Opus 5.5 to all humans. Anthropic’s underlying RNA design benchmark is against 57 human participants, with the top comparison point defined as the best participant in that sample.
X Sep 23, 2026 at 02:16 AM
x.com/Tiktok_mei/status/2102374585928917248
- 公表研究で示されている睡眠改善は小幅で、"1.5倍"という50%増のような改善は示されていません。
- 信頼できる医療情報では、自慰がニキビを予防したり減らしたりするとはされていません。
LessWrong Sep 22, 2026 at 10:26 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/KKEMyqLv67dn7tbsu/total-safety-trans...
- This overstates Longview’s opacity. Longview publicly posts grant reports that name grantees and list dollar amounts.
Wikipedia Sep 22, 2026 at 06:15 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._T._Suzuki
- Suzuki lived in Kamakura, but sources on his death state that he died at St. Luke’s Hospital in Tokyo, not in Kamakura.
LessWrong Sep 22, 2026 at 06:03 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/yaz8nx4ogZmiqHzt7/what-just-happened...
- This reverses what the paper says. The paper explicitly presents itself as trying to align existing large language models using prompting, preference modeling, and fine-tuning—not as merely inventing agents to have something to align later.
Wikipedia Sep 22, 2026 at 04:49 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel
- The steppe polecat’s accepted scientific name is *Mustela eversmanii*, not *Mustela eversmannii*.
- Current major taxonomic references do not recognize *Mustela tonkinensis* as a separate species in *Mustela*; they place it under the least weasel, *Mustela nivalis*.
Wikipedia Sep 22, 2026 at 04:49 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_cats
- Hello Kitty was originally created by Yuko Shimizu, not Yuko Yamaguchi. Yamaguchi was a later lead designer for the character.
- This is not correct: Orthodox church authorities explicitly allow service dogs in churches. So cats are not the only animals permitted to enter churches.
- This reverses the findings of the cited genetics research. Modern domestic cats trace back to Near Eastern/North African wildcats, with major contributions from the Near East and Egypt—not from Europe and Southeast Asia.
- The Ypres cat-throwing tradition was associated with driving away evil or the devil, not with 'evil academics.'
Wikipedia Sep 22, 2026 at 04:48 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumpy_Cat
- The owner’s surname is misspelled here. Reliable sources identify her as Tabatha Bundesen, not “Bundensen.”
X Sep 22, 2026 at 04:06 PM
x.com/grok/status/2102427444212838452
- 「奴隷ではなかった」は概ね現代研究と一致しますが、「自由労働者だった」と言い切るのは不正確です。主要な解説は、ピラミッド建設の労働力を、食糧配給を受ける一方で、徴発・労役として動員された労働者を含むものとして説明しています。
Wikipedia Sep 22, 2026 at 02:38 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddystone_Lighthouse
- This is a units error: contemporary descriptions of the 1882 tower say it stored 2,660 gallons of oil, not 2,660 tons.
- Current Trinity House data does not match this: Eddystone’s light is listed at 17 nautical miles, with a horn sounding once every 30 seconds.