First of all, I apologize for not being present inside my own thread for a while. I was out of country and I had only my phone with me, so it was impossible for me to write long posts using the phone. Anyway, I am back now
I am pretty sure that I had seen something like that previously.. I cannot remember exactly where.... or maybe I just heard such an e-mail had been sent without actually seeing the contents.. like what is being shown in your cited image.
I remember this. I saw this years ago, on gwern's website.
In fact, it seems that DDmr found already the source:
I remember I studied well gwern's website, being very well impressed about the materials presented there. With that oocasion I also found out that
gwern was also active on our forum and it's sad that they ceased being active here...
If the source is the same as I’ve placed below, I’m left wondering whether the author used AI to aid his writing, or he simply used old information and planted it without paying attention to the content and the reference to "recent" it enclosed.
Most likely, the author acted like an amateur and did not care to verify the source of the information. There are so many acting like this in our days...