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Wikipedia Aug 27, 2026 at 06:42 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_of_the_end_of_Wikipedia
- The 8% figure is overstated here. Wikimedia said the roughly 8% decline applied only to revised March–August 2025 human pageviews versus the same months in 2024, while Columbia’s summary says overall Wikipedia traffic remained steady.
X Aug 27, 2026 at 06:26 AM
x.com/paradite_/status/2068371685166977448
- This misstates what common LLM training objectives do. Standard language-model loss is not the same as optimizing for objective ground truth, and RLHF rewards human preferences rather than truth itself.
Substack Aug 27, 2026 at 02:06 AM
nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/academia-is-doing-fine-actuall...
- This absolute claim is false. Poor-quality and even fraudulent academic work has sometimes been widely read and has had major real-world effects.
X Aug 26, 2026 at 03:50 PM
x.com/NotA_Bull/status/2092527296540201032
- NVDA was not flat over the prior year. Price data on August 26, 2026 shows the stock roughly 16% above its August 26, 2025 level.
Substack Aug 26, 2026 at 12:46 PM
unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-holocaust-examined
- 联合国人口数据并未显示1990年代世界人口“突然减少了600万人”。相反，全球总人口在整个1990年代持续增长。
- 联合国的历史人口估计并不支持“二战前后世界人口基本保持不变”这一说法。官方数据表明，全球人口在1930年代至1950年间总体上仍在增长。
X Aug 26, 2026 at 11:11 AM
x.com/hotponchi1/status/2092447667263848936
- Turing itself says its vehicles have already operated on public roads in Tokyo, not only on test courses.
X Aug 26, 2026 at 10:11 AM
x.com/polymarketjapan/status/2092519268302926251
- MUFGの公式案内では、2027年3月は新サービスの“開始”ではなく既存クラブの名称変更時期です。会員資格も現行クラブから「変更はございません」とされており、現行クラブはすでに一般の資格充足者がWebや店頭から申し込めます。
Substack Aug 26, 2026 at 09:29 AM
unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/statistical-deception-the-great-t...
- 这句话并不是由烟草公司“炮制”出来的。相关与因果的区分在统计学文献中早在19世纪就已出现；烟草业后来只是利用了一个早已存在的论点。
- 著名的“九项准则/九个观点”并非来自达雷尔·赫夫，而是来自流行病学家 Austin Bradford Hill 1965 年关于因果推断的经典论述。
- 这里的“1719年左右”不对。1719 是阿亨瓦尔的出生年；主流词源史把他对 Statistik 的使用/推广放在 1748 或 1749 年。
Substack Aug 26, 2026 at 09:27 AM
unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-power-of-the-clinical-trial-b...
- Moderna’s own reported vaccine sales for 2021 and 2022 were much higher than $28 billion. Official filings show about $17.7 billion in 2021 and $18.4 billion in 2022, totaling roughly $36.1 billion.
Substack Aug 26, 2026 at 09:22 AM
unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-pharma-turns-clinical-trials?...
- This is false. COVID-19 has caused millions of confirmed deaths worldwide, and U.S. death certificates record large numbers of deaths involving COVID-19.
- This is incorrect. COVID-19 and influenza are different diseases caused by different viruses, and health authorities explicitly distinguish them.
- This is false. Viruses are directly observed, isolated, sequenced, and experimentally characterized biological entities.
- Both parts of this claim are false. Dinosaur fossils are extensively documented, and Earth’s rotation is directly measured and described by NASA.
- This is false. The National Cancer Institute states that cancer is a genetic disease caused by changes in genes, not a purely metabolic disease.
- This misdescribes the drug. Intismeran autogene is not a patient’s naturally occurring mRNA; Merck describes it as a synthetic mRNA therapy designed from the tumor’s mutational signature.
Substack Aug 26, 2026 at 09:17 AM
unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-pharma-turns-clinical-trials?...
- COVID-19 did kill large numbers of people. U.S. death-certificate data alone record roughly 1.2 million COVID-19 deaths by June 1, 2024.
- Vaccines do have documented benefits. WHO says immunization prevents 3.5 to 5 million deaths each year, and CDC says childhood vaccination prevents about 4 million deaths worldwide annually.
- Cancer is not “purely metabolic” and it is not true that cancer is non-genetic. The U.S. National Cancer Institute states explicitly that cancer is a genetic disease caused by changes in genes.
- Viruses do exist. NIH defines a virus as an infectious microbe made of DNA or RNA in a protein coat, and CDC specifically refers to the smallpox-causing variola virus as existing in two approved research labs.
- Earth does rotate. NASA states that as Earth orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 23.9 hours.
X Aug 26, 2026 at 09:16 AM
x.com/hirox246/status/2092540293673365606
- 少なくともフランスについては不正確です。近年の報道や実地ディレクトリでは、フランス各地に数千台規模の屋外・24時間型自販機が確認されています。
Substack Aug 26, 2026 at 09:13 AM
alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-tamiflu-kills
- 现有试验结果并不支持把奥司他韦描述为对“每年数百万美国人”都无效且致命；官方说明明确说，这一信号只来自 ICU 危重流感患者，且不适用于社区或非 ICU 患者。
- REMAP-CAP 的对照组不是“安慰剂”，而是“不使用任何抗病毒药物”。官方试验说明明确写的是 oseltamivir 5 天、10 天，或不接受抗病毒治疗。
Substack Aug 26, 2026 at 09:12 AM
unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-pharma-turns-clinical-trials?...
- 现有大规模研究并未发现 mRNA COVID-19 疫苗与妊娠早期流产风险增加有关；权威机构明确写明“没有增加流产风险”。
- 2026 年 7 月美国宣布释放的是国会已拨款的 6 亿美元给 Gavi，而不是“给盖茨钱”。
Substack Aug 26, 2026 at 09:07 AM
alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-tamiflu-kills
- The REMAP-CAP result was not for all hospitalized flu patients. It applied only to critically ill ICU patients aged 12+ with severe influenza, and the trial team says it does not tell us whether oseltamivir helps or harms other hospitalized patients.
- The REMAP-CAP comparison group was not given a placebo. The official trial materials say patients were randomized to oseltamivir or to no antiviral treatment, and treatment assignment was not blinded.
Wikipedia Aug 26, 2026 at 08:57 AM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%89%E6%95%88%E5%88%A9%E4%BB%96%E...
- 這句把 Future of Humanity Institute 當成現存組織列出，但該機構已於 2024 年 4 月 16 日關閉。
- MIRI 現在已不再把「發展友善人工智慧」作為主要重心；官方表示自 2024 年起已改以政策工作為當前焦點。
Wikipedia Aug 26, 2026 at 08:02 AM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%BF%E4%B8%9C%E5%9B%BD%E9%99%85%E...
- 官方法院和公司公告资料都将这家机构记为“广东国际信托投资公司”，并明确其为“全民所有制企业/全民所有企业”，不是“有限责任公司”。
Wikipedia Aug 26, 2026 at 08:02 AM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%9E%E6%B4%B2%E9%87%91%E8%9E%8D%E...
- 中國電信（香港）在港上市時間不是1998年10月，而是1997年10月23日。
- 843億美元不是香港當時的「官方儲備」數字。港府官方資料顯示，1997年7月底官方外匯儲備為817億美元；843億美元是把未交收外匯合約也算進去的數字。
LessWrong Aug 26, 2026 at 06:21 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wGFS2sZhKAihSg6k/success-buys-freed...
- Jordan Peterson is not an anthropologist; he is a clinical psychologist and psychology professor.
- Feynman’s first Princeton seminar did attract Einstein, Pauli, and von Neumann, but they were not simply Princeton faculty at his university; they were associated with the separate Institute for Advanced Study.
LessWrong Aug 26, 2026 at 06:17 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/A2kJKqnHhh5Hq4p2S/we-must-remember-t...
- This overstates what the USDA number refers to. The cage-free percentage is for the U.S. egg-laying flock, not for all U.S. chickens.
- This gets the history wrong. USDA says New World screwworm was eradicated from the United States in 1966, while 2006 refers to the Panama barrier zone—and there was also a Florida outbreak in 2016–2017.
- This is misleading because standard cluster-headache treatments are legal. Clinical guidance recommends legal treatments such as oxygen, triptans, and verapamil.