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  • "Anthropic’s “Hot Mess” paper overstates its case (and the blog post is worse)" by RobertM

    "Anthropic’s “Hot Mess” paper overstates its case (and the blog post is worse)" by RobertM
    Feb 4 2026
    Author's note: this is somewhat more rushed than ideal, but I think getting this out sooner is pretty important. Ideally, it would be a bit less snarky.

    Anthropic[1] recently published a new piece of research: The Hot Mess of AI: How Does Misalignment Scale with Model Intelligence and Task Complexity? (arXiv, Twitter thread).

    I have some complaints about both the paper and the accompanying blog post.

    tl;dr

    • The paper's abstract says that "in several settings, larger, more capable models are more incoherent than smaller models", but in most settings they are more coherent. This emphasis is even more exaggerated in the blog post and Twitter thread. I think this is pretty misleading.
    • The paper's technical definition of "incoherence" is uninteresting[2] and the framing of the paper, blog post, and Twitter thread equivocate with the more normal English-language definition of the term, which is extremely misleading.
    • Section 5 of the paper (and to a larger extent the blog post and Twitter) attempt to draw conclusions about future alignment difficulties that are unjustified by the experiment results, and would be unjustified even if the experiment results pointed in the other direction.
    • The blog post is substantially LLM-written. I think this [...]
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    (00:39) tl;dr

    (01:42) Paper

    (06:25) Blog

    The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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    First published:
    February 4th, 2026

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ceEgAEXcL7cC2Ddiy/anthropic-s-hot-mess-paper-overstates-its-case-and-the-blog

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  • "Conditional Kickstarter for the “Don’t Build It” March" by Raemon

    "Conditional Kickstarter for the “Don’t Build It” March" by Raemon
    Feb 3 2026
    tl;dr: You can pledge to join a big protest to ban AGI research at ifanyonebuildsit.com/march, which only triggers if 100,000 people sign up.

    The If Anyone Builds It website includes a March page, wherein you can pledge to march in Washington DC, demanding an international treaty to stop AGI research if 100,000 people in total also pledge.

    I designed the March page (although am not otherwise involved with March decisionmaking), and want to pitch people on signing up for the "March Kickstarter."

    It's not obvious that small protests do anything, or are worth the effort. But, I think 100,000 people marching in DC would be quite valuable because it showcases "AI x-risk is not a fringe concern. If you speak out about it, you are not being a lonely dissident, you are representing a substantial mass of people."

    The current version of the March page is designed around the principle that "conditional kickstarters are cheap." MIRI might later decide to push hard on the March, and maybe then someone will bid for people to come who are on the fence.

    For now, I mostly wanted to say: if you're the sort of person who would fairly obviously come to [...]

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    (01:54) Probably expect a design/slogan reroll

    (03:10) FAQ

    (03:13) Whats the goal of the Dont Build It march?

    (03:24) Why?

    (03:55) Why do you think that?

    (04:22) Why does the pledge only take effect if 100,000 people pledge to march?

    (04:56) What do you mean by international treaty?

    (06:00) How much notice will there be for the actual march?

    (06:14) What if I dont want to commit to marching in D.C. yet?

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    First published:
    February 2nd, 2026

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HnwDWxRPzRrBfJSBD/conditional-kickstarter-for-the-don-t-build-it-march

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  • "How to Hire a Team" by Gretta Duleba

    "How to Hire a Team" by Gretta Duleba
    Feb 1 2026
    A low-effort guide I dashed off in less than an hour, because I got riled up.

    1. Try not to hire a team. Try pretty hard at this.
      1. Try to find a more efficient way to solve your problem that requires less labor – a smaller-footprint solution.
      2. Try to hire contractors to do specific parts that they’re really good at, and who have a well-defined interface. Your relationship to these contractors will mostly be transactional and temporary.
      3. If you must, try hiring just one person, a very smart, capable, and trustworthy generalist, who finds and supports the contractors, so all you have to do is manage the problem-and-solution part of the interface with the contractors. You will need to spend quite a bit of time making sure this lieutenant understands what you’re doing and why, so be very choosy not just about their capabilities but about how well you work together, how easily you can make yourself understood, etc.
    2. If that fails, hire the smallest team that you can. Small is good because:
      1. Managing more people is more work.
        1. The relationship between number of people and management overhead is roughly O(n) but unevenly distributed; some people [...]
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    First published:
    January 29th, 2026

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cojSyfxfqfm4kpCbk/how-to-hire-a-team

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