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Substack Mar 2, 2026 at 06:40 PM
www.richardhanania.com/p/labor-freedom-is-the-best-explanati...
- Heritage’s 2025 Index of Economic Freedom ranks the United States 26th overall, not 27th.
- German law generally does not grant an automatic legal entitlement to severance pay upon dismissal; severance is usually negotiated and only becomes a statutory entitlement in limited cases (e.g., if offered under §1a KSchG).
- In Germany, works councils can be formed once an establishment meets the employee threshold, but forming one is not mandatory and employers are not required to create one; the initiative must come from employees/unions.
- In April 2025, Waymo’s commercial driverless ride-hailing service was operating in four U.S. regions (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin), not “five cities.”
- Audi’s electric SUV was introduced as the “Audi e-tron”; the “Q8 e-tron” name was introduced later (revealed as a rename in 2022).
X Mar 2, 2026 at 06:16 PM
x.com/dieworkwear/status/2028295656260198902/photo/1
- The pages shown are from Esquire (including a January 1941 article), not the 1930s trade journal Apparel Arts.
LessWrong Mar 2, 2026 at 02:51 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/MruTFazc4iu6zPtyb/measuring-non-verb...
- This citation has the wrong year and (apparently) the wrong title for arXiv:2510.20487. The arXiv record shows the paper is titled “Steering Evaluation-Aware Language Models to Act Like They Are Deployed” and was first submitted on Oct 23, 2025 (not 2024).
X Mar 2, 2026 at 08:14 AM
x.com/ciphergoth/status/2028218732854853739/photo/1
- In U.S. intelligence/DoD rules, “collection” is defined as receiving/acquiring (and processing into intelligible form) information—not querying/searching an already-held database.
Substack Mar 1, 2026 at 08:11 PM
www.richardhanania.com/p/why-low-human-capital-obsesses-over
- Pedophilia is generally defined as a psychological/psychiatric condition (sexual attraction to prepubescent children), not a standalone criminal offense; criminal liability comes from committing sexual offenses against minors, not from the diagnosis/attraction itself.
X Mar 1, 2026 at 04:22 PM
x.com/predict_addict/status/2028059565485351114
- This is incorrect: Monte Carlo estimators come with well-known mathematical guarantees (e.g., Law of Large Numbers convergence and Central Limit Theorem error behavior) under standard assumptions.
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.