# Simple Reminders Editorial Defect Audit - 2026-09-11 ## Scope This audit covers the 500 production reminder records under `reminders/`: 113 verified reminders in thematic folders and 387 records in `reminders/unverified/`. The agent README, `reminders/welcome.md`, `reminders/Examples/`, and parser fixtures under `reminders/tests/` are not production quotation records and were excluded. The full set received a structural and referential scan. The 113 verified reminders also received an editorial headline/proposition screen focused on the corpus trajectories: neural continuity, connectomic acquisition, substrate migration, biological and synthetic hosting, successor intelligence, extinction and civilizational succession, digital persistence, identity, memory, and the transition from philosophy to engineering. This is not a claim that all 500 quotations have been independently re-verified against primary sources. Unverified records remain unverified. ## Current validation result - Production reminders: **500** - Verified reminders: **66** - Unverified or editorially quarantined reminders: **434** - Verified reminder files now carrying `## Sources and Context`: **66 of 66** - Original 113-item cohort carrying `## Sources and Context`, including the 47 records demoted during review: **113 of 113** - Filename/H1, required front matter, category-length, permalink/social-URL, and required-section errors: **0** - Missing wiki targets in reminder `Related Topics`: **0** - Missing reminder targets in existing wiki backlinks: **0** - Stale references to the fifteen renamed reminders: **0** - Current verified quotations failing the standalone-poster meaning test after safe repairs and demotions: **0**. Forty-four records were moved to editorial quarantine; see [[research/Simple Reminders Standalone Meaning Audit - 2026-09-11|Simple Reminders Standalone Meaning Audit - 2026-09-11]]. ## Defects corrected in this pass The following reminders had headlines that concealed the proposition, quotations clipped before the referent, inaccurate source dates, malformed punctuation, or some combination of those defects. Each rename was propagated to its existing wiki placement and to [[research/Simple Reminders Wiki Seeding Audit - 2026-09-11|Simple Reminders Wiki Seeding Audit - 2026-09-11]]. Permalinks were retained unless already changed in the preceding repair, preserving existing public URLs. | Previous headline | Current headline | Correction | |---|---|---| | `I Find It Pretty Likely by Anders Sandberg` | [[reminders/unverified/A Complete Brain Simulation Would Probably Produce a Mind by Anders Sandberg\|A Complete Brain Simulation Would Probably Produce a Mind by Anders Sandberg]] | Names what Sandberg considered likely; corrects the Scientific American date to 2010; adds full context. | | `This Is Not Going to Happen by Olaf Sporns` | [[reminders/unverified/Mind Uploading Will Not Capture an Individual Mind by Olaf Sporns\|Mind Uploading Will Not Capture an Individual Mind by Olaf Sporns]] | Resolves “this” as individual mind uploading rather than brain modeling generally. | | `My Opinion on These Topics Has Changed by Yoshua Bengio` | [[reminders/unverified/Unexpected AI Acceleration Changed My Mind by Yoshua Bengio\|Unexpected AI Acceleration Changed My Mind by Yoshua Bengio]] | Restores the complete Mila sentence naming acceleration, the pause letter, and Bengio's change of view. | | `The Big Language Models Are Getting Close by Geoffrey Hinton` | [[reminders/AI Control/Large Language Models Are Beginning to Reason by Geoffrey Hinton\|Large Language Models Are Beginning to Reason by Geoffrey Hinton]] | Restores the remainder of Hinton's sentence and identifies limited reasoning as the threshold. | | `Everything. I Mean Everything by Henry Markram` | [[reminders/unverified/A Complete Brain Simulation Could Do Everything by Henry Markram\|A Complete Brain Simulation Could Do Everything by Henry Markram]] | Names the complete-brain simulation proposition and supplies the self-consciousness context. | | `Not an Unreasonable Estimate by Geoffrey Hinton` | [[reminders/unverified/A Ten Percent AI Extinction Risk Is Not Unreasonable by Geoffrey Hinton\|A Ten Percent AI Extinction Risk Is Not Unreasonable by Geoffrey Hinton]] | Restores the ten-percent estimate and names AI-caused human extinction within a decade. | | `Humanity Was Likely ‘Just a Passing Stage by Geoffrey Hinton` | [[reminders/unverified/Humanity May Be Just a Passing Stage by Geoffrey Hinton\|Humanity May Be Just a Passing Stage by Geoffrey Hinton]] | Corrected punctuation during the initial pass; later provenance review showed that the sentence is institutional narration rather than a clean Hinton quotation, so the record was demoted. | | `These Things Do Understand by Geoffrey Hinton` | [[reminders/unverified/Large Language Models Already Understand by Geoffrey Hinton\|Large Language Models Already Understand by Geoffrey Hinton]] | Identifies “these things” as large language models and adds the *60 Minutes* context. | | `It’s a Time of Huge Uncertainty by Geoffrey Hinton` | [[reminders/unverified/AI Has Entered a Time of Huge Uncertainty by Geoffrey Hinton\|AI Has Entered a Time of Huge Uncertainty by Geoffrey Hinton]] | Names advanced AI as the subject and restores the surrounding alarm statement. | | `Nobody Really Knows What’s Going to Happen by Geoffrey Hinton` | [[reminders/unverified/Nobody Knows What Advanced AI Will Do Next by Geoffrey Hinton\|Nobody Knows What Advanced AI Will Do Next by Geoffrey Hinton]] | Identifies advanced AI as the missing subject. | | `I Should Have Been Very Happy by Jan Funke` | [[reminders/Connectomics/Predictions Were Not Enough—the Neural Network Had to Be Understood by Jan Funke\|Predictions Were Not Enough—the Neural Network Had to Be Understood by Jan Funke]] | Replaces the contextless reaction with Funke's complete statement that predictions were not enough; the team needed confidence that the network was actually working. | | `That's the Preposterous Scenario by Yann LeCun` | [[reminders/unverified/An Instant AI World Takeover Is Preposterous by Yann LeCun\|An Instant AI World Takeover Is Preposterous by Yann LeCun]] | Identifies the precise takeover scenario LeCun rejected rather than extending his rejection to every AI risk. | | `A Means of Avoiding Death by Kenneth Hayworth` | [[reminders/unverified/Brain Preservation Could Carry People Beyond Death by Kenneth Hayworth\|Brain Preservation Could Carry People Beyond Death by Kenneth Hayworth]] | Restores the complete sentence and identifies long-term neural-circuit preservation as the proposed means. | | `Preserving the Future by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston` | [[reminders/Preservation/Information-Theoretic Death Marks the Point Beyond Recovery by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston\|Information-Theoretic Death Marks the Point Beyond Recovery by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston]] | Replaces a generic headline and clipped question with the full recovery-boundary passage. | | `Within Thirty Years by Vernor Vinge` | [[reminders/Machine Succession/A 1993 Forecast of Superhuman Intelligence Within Thirty Years by Vernor Vinge\|A 1993 Forecast of Superhuman Intelligence Within Thirty Years by Vernor Vinge]] | Names superhuman intelligence and anchors the relative timespan to Vinge's 1993 NASA-hosted paper. | ## Sources and Context rollout The `## Sources and Context` section is now present in all 66 verified reminders across AI control, consciousness, connectomics, cybernetics, digital afterlife, existential risk, identity, machine succession, mind upload, preservation, risk debate, and simulation. The sections provide several source roles: - direct publication and surrounding passage; - institutional event report; - full interview or recording; - television-program context; - contemporary reporting preserving a broadcast quotation; and - explicit explanation of an otherwise unresolved `this`, `that`, `these`, `they`, probability, or reaction. The section sits immediately above `## Related Topics`. It is omitted when no reliable direct or authoritative link has been established. ## Initial verified editorial review queue This thirteen-item table records the earlier headline-focused pass. It is superseded for current disposition by the full 113-entry semantic and provenance comparison in [[research/Simple Reminders Standalone Meaning Audit - 2026-09-11|Simple Reminders Standalone Meaning Audit - 2026-09-11]]. Items repaired after this table was written remain here as audit history rather than as a current queue. These reminders passed structural validation, but their current quotation/headline pairing still warrants source-level review. They were not rewritten in this pass because the retrieved material did not yet establish enough surrounding text to make a preservation-safe change. | Reminder | Defect requiring review | |---|---| | [[reminders/unverified/Put Them on Pause Until We Can by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston\|Put Them on Pause Until We Can by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston]] | “Them,” “pause,” and the deferred treatment need their source referents. | | [[reminders/unverified/Brain Circuitry and Mind by Edward S. Boyden\|Brain Circuitry and Mind by Edward S. Boyden]] | Quotation terminates with an ellipsis before completing the proposition. | | [[reminders/Connectomics/Toward Simulating Our Own Brain Circuitry by Andrew C. Payne\|Toward Simulating Our Own Brain Circuitry by Andrew C. Payne]] | Extract begins with “even,” indicating a missing governing clause. | | [[reminders/unverified/The Brain-Mapping Task Humans Cannot Do Alone by Jan Funke\|The Brain-Mapping Task Humans Cannot Do Alone by Jan Funke]] | “And that” lacks the task named in the source context. | | [[reminders/unverified/If You Can Have Nonorganic Consciousness by Max Tegmark\|If You Can Have Nonorganic Consciousness by Max Tegmark]] | Conditional fragment does not complete its consequence. | | [[reminders/Machine Succession/Beyond Human Intelligence by I. J. Good\|Beyond Human Intelligence by I. J. Good]] | “There would then” omits the condition that produces the intelligence explosion. | | [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machines Could Quickly Outstrip Human Powers by Alan Turing\|Machines Could Quickly Outstrip Human Powers by Alan Turing]] | “It” lacks its antecedent; the primary manuscript passage should be recovered before expansion. | | [[reminders/unverified/Up to and Including Human Extinction by Stuart Russell\|Up to and Including Human Extinction by Stuart Russell]] | Quotation is a terminal fragment without the risk or causal subject. | | [[reminders/unverified/Catastrophic AI Risk Deserves Serious Mitigation by Demis Hassabis\|Catastrophic AI Risk Deserves Serious Mitigation by Demis Hassabis]] | Quotation begins with “worth” and omits what is being considered and mitigated. | | [[reminders/AI Control/More Than a Ten Percent Risk Within a Decade by Evan Hubinger\|More Than a Ten Percent Risk Within a Decade by Evan Hubinger]] | Headline does not identify the estimated event as AI killing all humans. | | [[reminders/AI Control/We Can Have Powerful AI Without Losing Control by Max Tegmark\|We Can Have Powerful AI Without Losing Control by Max Tegmark]] | Current extract mentions AI benefits but not the no-loss-of-control claim asserted by the headline. | | [[reminders/unverified/Proceed with Exceptional Care by Demis Hassabis\|Proceed with Exceptional Care by Demis Hassabis]] | The headline and quotation do not identify what must proceed carefully. | | [[reminders/unverified/Let’s Slow Down by Yoshua Bengio\|Let’s Slow Down by Yoshua Bengio]] | The standalone object does not name advanced-AI development as the thing to slow. | ## Unverified corpus boundary The 387 unverified reminders were included in structural and referential validation, but headline polishing must not be confused with quotation verification. Their next safe pass is source recovery first, followed by proposition extraction, headline adjudication, and only then promotion or rewriting. Opaque but memorable wording is not sufficient evidence for a verified quotation object. ## Completion state The new source-section contract, trajectory scope, and news-headline rule are now part of [[reminders/SIMPLE_REMINDERS_AGENT_README|SIMPLE_REMINDERS_AGENT_README]]. The fifteen confirmed headline/context defects above are repaired and synchronized. The remaining verified queue is intentionally open pending fuller source retrieval.