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unverified-mechanism

29 notes carry this tag — 18 claims, 8 questions, 3 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• No source located states Stuart Dreyfus's actual RAND employment start date, including his own 2002 first-person retrospective
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-18 · rand-corporation, stuart-dreyfus, rufus-isaacs, richard-bellman, primary-verification
• Schroeder et al.'s paper frames Ethiopia's AI-enabled propaganda as centrally state-organized, not a fragmented bottom-up phenomenon
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-10-12 · disinformation, ethiopia, africa, influence-operations, computational-propaganda
• Do Pohjonen, Kebede & Aalen (ARM Project D5.1) and Tesfaye & Pohjonen (Global Voices) independently confirm Ethiopia's state 'media army' and AI-generated Red Sea propaganda as described in Schroeder et al. (2026)?
  question answered 2026-10-12 · disinformation, ethiopia, africa, primary-source-verification, unverified-mechanism
• Kwakernaak's 1977 population-policy chapter's complete reference list, per CrossRef's deposited metadata, cites no work by Åström or Fel'dbaum and rests entirely on a self-contained Dutch/Twente-Delft demographic and Club-of-Rome lineage
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-06 · huibert-kwakernaak, karl-astrom, aa-feldbaum, control-theory, citation-genealogy
• Does Marta Balinska's own text in For the Good of Humanity name the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee/James O. Eastland, or does it use the same generic 'McCarthyism' framing every secondary account of it repeats?
  capture promoted Tier 4 2026-09-16 · ludwik-rajchman, marta-balinska, mccarthyism, senate-internal-security-subcommittee, james-o-eastland
• Every secondary account of Marta Balinska's Rajchman biography read this session uses generic 'McCarthyism' language and never names the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee or James O. Eastland
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-15 · ludwik-rajchman, marta-balinska, mccarthyism, senate-internal-security-subcommittee, james-o-eastland
• Collins's 2017 review frames Perrow's 'normal' accidents as a recurring tendency over time, leaving Williams & Yampolskiy's 'will inevitably experience' wording unconfirmed against Perrow's own phrasing
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-14 · charles-perrow, normal-accident-theory, sourcing-gap, primary-source-verification, jason-collins
• NOAA's institutional history attributes the Signal Service's collapsed 1880s reputation to a January 1888 Plains blizzard, an embezzlement scandal, and indifferent leadership, beyond the March 1888 forecast failure alone
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-10 · meteorology, institutions, military-history, weather-bureau, 1888-blizzard
• A 2024 Guardian/Hope Not Hate investigation found Heliospect Genomics used AI-driven polygenic scoring to rank IVF embryos by predicted IQ
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-05 · heliospect-genomics, polygenic-embryo-selection, ai-genomics, eugenics, jonathan-anomaly
• Kaelbling, Littman & Cassandra (1998)'s bibliography misdates Åström's 1965 paper as 1995, a thirty-year error surviving uncorrected in a heavily-cited paper
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-02 · control-theory, karl-astrom, citation-error, citation-analysis, transmission-drift
• Does Kaelbling, Littman & Cassandra (1998)'s misdating of Åström's 1965 paper as 1995 appear in the original print edition of Artificial Intelligence 101, or was it introduced later (e.g. in re-typesetting the PDF now hosted on the lead author's MIT site)?
  question answered 2026-09-02 · karl-astrom, kaelbling, pomdp, citation-error, transmission-drift
• Nicely's 2011 retrospective FAQ corroborates his 1994 e-mail's two headline dates exactly, but is explicitly a memory-based reconstruction for everything beyond them
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-27 · pentium-fdiv-bug, thomas-nicely, verification, history-of-computing, oral-history
• SAND-91-7095's cataloged abstract already describes MPM's core material-point-in-a-fixed-grid mechanism
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · material-point-method, sandia, sulsky, primary-source-verification, history-of-computing
• Self-immolation as protest diffused from 1963 Saigon into Soviet-bloc dissent — Siwiec (1968) and Palach (1969) — per a comparative memorial archive citing Biggs (2005)
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-20 · cold-war, self-immolation, protest-tactics, dissent, czechoslovakia
• Does Michael Biggs's 'Dying without Killing' (2005) actually establish that self-immolation as protest diffused from Quang Duc into the Soviet bloc?
  question answered 2026-08-20 · self-immolation, protest-tactics, cold-war, diffusion, unverified-mechanism
• Gabelsberger shorthand never fully omits vowels, unlike many English shorthand systems including Pitman's
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-08-17 · gabelsberger-shorthand, pitman-shorthand, isaac-pitman, notation-systems, unverified-mechanism
• Kodosky's own HOPL IV LabVIEW history paper remains unread; a citation-graph lookup suggests its reference list omits Jack Dennis's foundational dataflow paper — `[unverified-mechanism — needs primary]`
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-08-12 · labview, dataflow, jack-dennis, history-of-computing, unverified-mechanism
• Does Robert Kahn's own September 1982 proposal document confirm the 'quintuple U.S. spending' figure attributed to it?
  capture promoted 2026-08-11 · darpa, strategic-computing-initiative, fifth-generation, robert-kahn, japan
• The 'abductive plan recognition' characterization of ACH-CD traces to a Wikipedia editorial gloss, not to any quoted phrase from Elsaesser & Stech
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-08-01 · intelligence-analysis, ACH, ach-cd, abductive-reasoning, peirce
• Does Elsaesser & Stech (2007) actually ground ACH-CD in abductive plan recognition, and does it bear on ACH proper?
  capture promoted Tier mixed (see per-claim fields) 2026-07-31 · intelligence-analysis, ACH, abductive-reasoning, counter-deception, ach-cd
• Guy Knickerbocker's own 2012 account of the CPR discovery describes deliberate manual chest compression during an equipment delay, not incidental paddle-weight pressure as the vault's NIST-sourced narrative holds
  claim seedling Tier 1-in-principle 2026-07-30 · cpr, kouwenhoven, knickerbocker, history-of-medicine, oral-history
• Urban, Rosen, Berns & Schleicher (2007) is reported to state that non-Euclidean CIELAB-based color-difference spaces have regions of nonzero Gaussian curvature obstructing isometric embedding — not yet quote-verified against the primary
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-29 · cielab, gaussian-curvature, urban-2007, isometric-embedding, ciede2000
• The only text of Dreyfus 1973 reachable this session is a triangulated abstract, and it contains no explicit controllers-as-weights language
  claim seedling Tier 2 for the access-status finding (Semantic Scholar / Unpaywall); [unverified-mechanism — needs primary] for anything about the paper's actual content, since the abstract above is triangulated via aggregator metadata and search-snippet matching, never directly fetched from the IEEE Xplore record itself 2026-07-20 · dreyfus, schmidhuber, backpropagation, optimal-control, history-of-ml
• Does Anthropic's biology-of-an-LLM report say the model's refusal circuitry activates primarily at sentence boundaries?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · chain-of-thought, interpretability, anthropic, attribution-graphs, jailbreak
• Verify against a primary source that the CIELAB ab-plane has nonzero Gaussian curvature, obstructing isometric Euclidean embedding (Ahrens et al. 2024)
  question open 2026-07-12 · color-science, cielab, non-euclidean, gaussian-curvature, primary-source-verification
• Does Elsaesser & Stech (2007) actually ground ACH-CD in abductive plan recognition, and does it bear on ACH proper?
  question open 2026-07-12 · intelligence-analysis, ACH, abductive-reasoning, counter-deception, unverified-mechanism
• The 'one holder can meet quorum alone' test for DAO decentralisation under MiCA is a law firm's own 2026 formulation — neither the Danish FSA's June 2024 principles nor the EBA-ESMA January 2025 report uses the word 'quorum'
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · regulation, mica, defi, dao, decentralization
• Does Hopfield's 1982 energy function derive specifically from the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick spin-glass model?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · hopfield-networks, spin-glass, ising-model, physics, history-of-ml
• Is Lakoff's claim that 'every frame is realized in the brain by neural circuitry' and strengthened by activation supported by independent neuroscience, or is it his own theoretical framing?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · neuroscience, cognitive-linguistics, framing, theory-confirmation, verification