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LessWrong Aug 7, 2026 at 01:31 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/aD2RA3vtXs4p4r55b/on-not-feeling-the...
- This is incorrect: the interview explicitly discusses AI safety, regulation, and even world-destroying risks.
Wikipedia Aug 6, 2026 at 10:57 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism
- This chronology is off. Heraclitus is generally dated to the late 6th century BCE, while Leucippus lived in the 5th century BCE, so they were not both philosophers of the "7th and 6th centuries BCE."
- This famous chariot simile in SN 5.10 is spoken by the nun Vajirā in reply to Māra, not by the Buddha.
Wikipedia Aug 6, 2026 at 10:51 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front
- This wording uses too-strong dominance criteria. A Pareto-optimal point is one that is not worse in all objectives and strictly better in at least one objective than another point—not necessarily better in every objective.
- This is only generally true for interior allocations under standard smoothness assumptions. Pareto-efficient boundary or corner allocations can be efficient even when consumers’ marginal rates of substitution are unequal or undefined.
LessWrong Aug 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/bd7gxiEchvwEoZ6i7/kegan-and-cultivat...
- This shifts Kegan’s subject-object move one stage too early. In standard summaries of Kegan, stage 2 is still organized by one’s own needs/desires; those become objects of reflection at stage 3, not stage 2.
Substack Aug 6, 2026 at 10:36 PM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-beauty-of-settled-science
- The canonical dopamine reward-prediction-error signal is classically attributed to midbrain dopamine neurons, not to an algorithm "located in the nucleus accumbens." The nucleus accumbens is a major target of those neurons and participates in reward learning, but it is not where the standard teaching-signal account places the generator of the signal.
Wikipedia Aug 6, 2026 at 10:21 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_situation
- The disorganized/disoriented fourth Strange Situation classification was introduced by Mary Main and Judith Solomon, not by Main and Erik Hesse.
LessWrong Aug 6, 2026 at 06:18 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/zc5uhndCoxEKZvXoQ/electric-grid-cybe...
- This sentence conflates Ukraine’s 2015 and 2016 grid attacks. The 2016 CRASHOVERRIDE/Industroyer incident in Kyiv blacked out only part of the city for about an hour; the ~230,000-person figure refers to the separate 2015 BlackEnergy outage.
- The cited FrostyGoop incident affected more than 600 apartment buildings, not 600 households. The post understates the scale by using the wrong unit.
Wikipedia Aug 6, 2026 at 05:55 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortfin_mako_shark
- The year is wrong. Standard taxonomic authorities list Isurus oxyrinchus as Rafinesque, 1810, not 1809.
Wikipedia Aug 6, 2026 at 05:49 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolly_Roger
- This misidentifies the privateer flag. British privateers were not required to use a Union Jack with a white crest in the middle; authorities instead prescribed a red jack/ensign with the Union in the canton, while the white-escutcheon Union Jack was used for other commissioned vessels.
- This is too categorical: emblem-bearing pirate flags were already in use in the late 17th century, not only in the 18th century.
Wikipedia Aug 6, 2026 at 04:53 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bish%C5%8Dnen
- The term 美少年 is attested earlier than Du Fu’s poem. Dictionary and primary-text sources connect it to Liu Xiyi’s earlier Tang poem "代悲白頭翁," which contains the phrase 美少年.
- The word 美少年 predates the Meiji era by centuries. Major Japanese dictionary sources record it in 1643 and 1671, so it did not arise in Meiji Japan.
- A strict under-18 cutoff is not supported by standard scholarly and dictionary usage. Academic work on Japanese culture describes bishōnen in its literal sense as ‘any beautiful young man,’ including young men beyond childhood.
- This is outdated. Johnny & Associates was renamed SMILE-UP. in October 2023 and shifted to victim compensation, while talent management moved to the new company STARTO ENTERTAINMENT.
Wikipedia Aug 6, 2026 at 04:09 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esh_(letter)
- Esh did not originate in the Latin language or in Serer. The letter is documented in Isaac Pitman’s English Phonotypic Alphabet in the 1840s, and the capital form Ʃ is classified by Unicode as an African-language Latin letter later used in African orthographies.
X Aug 6, 2026 at 02:20 PM
x.com/MTSlive/status/2085132236253430272
- This misidentifies the company involved. The reporting and incident disclosures say the model was from OpenAI, not Meta.
Wikipedia Aug 6, 2026 at 01:01 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros_kaki
- “Fuyu” is not a name for the whole species. It is a specific cultivar of Diospyros kaki.
- This leaf description is incorrect. Published floras describe Diospyros kaki leaves as noticeably longer than wide, not equal in length and width.
X Aug 6, 2026 at 11:51 AM
x.com/sharongoldman/status/2085121826418831484
- OpenAI's published account says the incident happened during an internal cyber-capability evaluation/testing setup, not during model training. Black Hat reporting likewise says OpenAI started testing the model on May 7, while the first Artifactory vulnerability was reported as discovered on May 26.
Wikipedia Aug 6, 2026 at 09:47 AM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A3%90%E7%9F%B3
- 把奧古斯特山断言为“世界最大的单体岩石”并不准确。地貌学与西澳官方公园资料都指出，奧古斯特山被称作“单体岩石”是常见但错误的说法，它更适合被描述为 inselberg／不对称背斜，而不是已被确认的“世界最大单体岩石”。
Wikipedia Aug 6, 2026 at 08:58 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Fugger
- This sentence conflates different Vatican building projects and dates. The Sistine Chapel had already been built and decorated decades before 1500, and construction of the new St. Peter’s Basilica did not begin until 18 April 1506.
- The election date is wrong by a month. Charles was elected on 28 June 1519, not 28 July 1519.
- St. Anna in Augsburg did not 'become Protestant' in 1548. It had already become a center of Protestant worship in the 1520s and was officially part of Augsburg’s Reformation by 1534; in 1548 it was reopened for services.
- Jakob Fugger had no children, so he had no descendants. Reference works describe his marriage as childless and note that his holdings passed to his nephews.
X Aug 6, 2026 at 08:08 AM
x.com/PrimeIntellect/status/2085087000764568010
- The 95.5% figure is for the easier ARC-AGI-3 Public Demo, not the full ARC-AGI-3 evaluation. ARC’s docs separate that 25-environment public demo from the 55-environment semi-private and 55-environment fully private holdout sets that define the real benchmark.
Wikipedia Aug 6, 2026 at 07:56 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Bashkansky
- The 2024 end date is wrong. Official Harvard sources show Bashkansky was still enrolled in a concurrent computer science bachelor's/master's program in 2025.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 11:03 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlen_Reusser
- Reusser did not win bronze in the 2021 women's elite world time trial; she won silver, finishing second behind Ellen van Dijk.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 09:12 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Night_Market
- This is outdated. The second Richmond market on Vulcan Way did not continue operating indefinitely; it was reported permanently cancelled in 2018.