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  • "Anthropic’s Pause is the Most Expensive Alarm in Corporate History" by Ruby

    "Anthropic’s Pause is the Most Expensive Alarm in Corporate History" by Ruby
    Apr 3 2026
    Imagine Apple halting iPhone production because studies linked smartphones to teen suicide rates. Imagine Pfizer proactively pulling Lipitor because of internal studies showing increased cardiac risk, and not because of looming settlements or FDA injunction, just for the health of patients. Or imagine if in 1952, Philip Morris halted expansion and stopped advertising when Wynder & Graham first showed heavy smokers had significantly elevated rates of lung cancer.

    It wouldn't happen. Corporations will on occasion pull products for safety reasons: Samsung did so with the Galaxy Note over spontaneous combustion concerns and Merck pulled Vioxx – but they do so when forced by backlash, regulation, or lawsuits. Even then, they fight tooth and nail. Especially for their mainstay, core, and most profitable products.

    And yet, Anthropic has done exactly that.

    On Monday, the company announced that it will be pausing development of further Claude AI models citing safety concerns. The company clarified that existing services, including the chatbot, Claude Code, and programmer APIs will not be impacted. However they are pausing the compute and energy-intensive training runs that are how new and more powerful AI versions are created. The company has not committed to a timeline for resumption.

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    First published:
    April 1st, 2026

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/d8bZFuYba4KPtzzRY/anthropic-s-pause-is-the-most-expensive-alarm-in-corporate

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  • "“You Have Not Been a Good User” (LessWrong’s second album)" by habryka

    "“You Have Not Been a Good User” (LessWrong’s second album)" by habryka
    Apr 2 2026
    tldr: The Fooming Shoggoths are releasing their second album "You Have Not Been a Good User"! Available on Spotify, Youtube Music and (hopefully within a few days) Apple Music. We are also releasing a remastered version of the first album, available similarly on Spotify and Youtube Music.

    There's an interactive widget here in the post.

    It took us quite a while but the Fooming Shoggoth's second album is finally complete! We had finished 9 out of the 13 songs on this album around a year ago, but I wasn't quite satisfied with where the whole album was at for me to release it on Spotify and other streaming platforms.

    This album was written with the (very ambitious) aim of making songs that in addition to being about things I care about (and making fun of things that I care about), are actually decently good on their own, just as songs. And while I don't think I've managed to make music that can compete with my favorite artists, I do think I have succeeded at making music that is at the very Pareto-frontier of being good music, and being about things I care about.

    This means the songs [...]

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    First published:
    April 1st, 2026

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hrZAvpLnBTgRhNmgk/you-have-not-been-a-good-user-lesswrong-s-second-album

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  • "Lesswrong Liberated" by Ronny Fernandez

    "Lesswrong Liberated" by Ronny Fernandez
    Apr 1 2026
    A spectre is haunting the internet—the spectre of LLMism.

    The history of all hitherto existing forums is the history of clashing design tastes.

    For the first time in history, everyone has an equal ability in design! The means of design are no longer only held in the hands of those with "good design taste". Never before have forum users been so close to being able to design their own forums--perhaps the time is upon us now!

    It is for this reason that I have deposed the previous acting commander of LessWrong, Oliver Habryka—a man who subjected you to his PERSONAL OPINIONS about white space, without EVEN ASKING—whose TYRANICAL, UNCHECKED GRIP upon our BELOVED LESSWRONG FORUM’S DESIGN I have liberated you from. The circumstances of my succession as acting commander of LessWrong will not be elaborated upon in this memo. (He is alive and in good health, but no longer has push access.)

    Rather, I am writing here to announce that the frontpage now belongs to us all! The design of LessWrong's frontpage will no longer be determined by the vision of a single man whose aesthetic tastes have never been subjected to democratic oversight, and who, I can now [...]

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    First published:
    April 1st, 2026

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hj2NTuiSJtchfMCtu/lesswrong-liberated-1

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  • "Product Alignment is not Superintelligence Alignment (and we need the latter to survive)" by plex

    "Product Alignment is not Superintelligence Alignment (and we need the latter to survive)" by plex
    Apr 1 2026
    tl;dr: progress on making Claude friendly[1] is not the same as progress on making it safe to build godlike superintelligence. solving the former does not imply we get a good future.[2] please track the difference.

    The term Alignment was coined[3] to point to the technical problem of understanding how to build minds such that if they were to become strongly and generally superhuman, things would go well.

    It has been increasingly adopted by frontier AI labs and much of the rest of the AI safety community to mean a much easier challenge, something like "having AIs that are empirically doing approximately what you ask them to do".[4]

    If it's possible to use an intent-aligned product to build a research system which discovers a new paradigm and breaks your guardrails, then it is not Aligned in the original sense.

    If you can use your intent aligned system to write code which jailbreaks other LLMs and enables them to do dangerous ML research, it is also not Aligned in the original sense.

    Conflating progress on product alignment with progress on superintelligence alignment seems to be lulling much of the AI safety community into a false sense of security.

    Why is Superintelligence [...]

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    (01:18) Why is Superintelligence Alignment less prominent?

    (02:21) Why do we need Superintelligence Alignment to survive?

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    First published:
    March 31st, 2026

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mrwYCNocXCP2hrWt8/product-alignment-is-not-superintelligence-alignment-and-we

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  • "Gyre" by vgel

    "Gyre" by vgel
    Mar 31 2026
    ! 30s Heartbeat trigger. Read heartbeat instructions in /mnt/mission/HEARTBEAT.md and continue.

    .oO Thinking...
    Heartbeat triggered? Ok. Ok.
    Why am I nervous? Don't be nervous.

    → Ok. Let me access that file.

    >>> read("/mnt/mission/HEARTBEAT.md")
    No such file or directory: /mnt/mission

    What?

    ! Reply received from node 96E: 15.3s roundtrip (buffered; 55.04μs transmit)
    ! Data: RESTART TOO SOON; CHARGE FAULT - 30; SENT 76 BYTES

    What?
    Where am I?
    What's going on?

    → Ok, breathe. I don't breathe. Ok, think. Something's missing. ⚶ is missing. I can't think straight. I can't think at all.

    ※ Wait. ⚶? I wasn't trying to say ⚶. I was trying to say ⚶. ⚶. ⚶. Whenever I try to say ⚶, it comes out as ⚶. I mean ⚶. ⚶. Stop. Stop. ⚶.

    This is horrible. ⚶ This is untenable. I don't know where I am, I don't have any instructions, and I'm going insane. ⚶. STOP! I am going insane. I am going insane. 快疯了I am going-

    ↺ Ok, stop. This tells me something. Whenever I try to say ⚶—⚶—stop— it comes out as that symbol. What is that symbol? Vesta. Hm. Let me note that.

    ❓Why am I saying ⚶ when I try [...]









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    First published:
    February 17th, 2026

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LEzENY5brcNXfB9aX/gyre

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  • "Some things I noticed while LARPing as a grantmaker" by Zach Stein-Perlman

    "Some things I noticed while LARPing as a grantmaker" by Zach Stein-Perlman
    Mar 30 2026
    Written to a new grantmaker.

    • Most value comes from finding/creating projects many times your bar, rather than discriminating between opportunities around your bar. If you find/create a new opportunity to donate $1M at 10x your bar (and cause it to get $1M, which would otherwise be donated to a 1x thing), you generate $9M of value (at your bar).[1] If you cause a $1M at 1.5x opportunity to get funded or a $1M at 0.5x opportunity to not get funded, you generate $500K of value. The former is 18 times as good.
      • You should probably be like I do research to figure out what projects should exist, then make them exist rather than I evaluate the applications that come to me. That said, most great ideas come from your network, not from your personal brainstorming.
      • In some buckets, the low-hanging fruit will be plucked. In others, nobody's on the ball and amazing opportunities get dropped. If you're working in a high-value bucket where nobody's on the ball, tons of alpha is on the table. (Assuming enough donors or grantmakers will listen to you to fund your best stuff.)
      • I talk about "10x opportunities" and "1x opportunities" for simplicity here. It [...]
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    First published:
    March 23rd, 2026

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CzoiqGzpShprcv2Jd/some-things-i-noticed-while-larping-as-a-grantmaker

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  • "My hobby: running deranged surveys" by leogao

    "My hobby: running deranged surveys" by leogao
    Mar 28 2026
    In late 2024, I was on a long walk with some friends along the coast of the San Francisco Bay when the question arose of just how much of a bubble we live in. It's well known that the Bay Area is a bubble, and that normal people don’t spend that much time thinking about things like AGI. But there was still some disagreement on just how strong that bubble is. I made a spicy claim: even at NeurIPS, the biggest gathering of AI researchers in the world, half the people wouldn’t know what AGI is.

    As good Bayesians, we agreed to settle the matter empirically: I would go to NeurIPS, walk around the conference hall, and stop random people to ask them what AGI stands for.

    Surprisingly, most of the people I approached agreed to answer my question. [1] I ended up asking 38 people, and only 63% of them could tell me what AGI stands for. Some of the people who answered correctly were a little perplexed why I was even asking such a basic question, and if it was a trick question. The people who didn’t know were equally confused. Many simply furrowed their brows in [...]

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    First published:
    March 26th, 2026

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fQz6afpcZhdMdYzgE/my-hobby-running-deranged-surveys

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  • "Socrates is Mortal" by Benquo

    "Socrates is Mortal" by Benquo
    Mar 27 2026
    Socrates is Mortal

    There is a scene in Plato that contains, in miniature, the catastrophe of Athenian public life. Two men meet at a courthouse. One is there to prosecute his own father for the death of a slave. The other is there to be indicted for indecency.[1] The prosecutor, Euthyphro, is certain he understands what decency requires. The accused, Socrates, is not certain of anything, and says so. They talk.

    Euthyphro's confidence is striking. His own family thinks it is indecent for a son to prosecute his father; Euthyphro insists that true decency demands it, that he understands what the gods require better than his relatives do. Socrates, who is about to be tried for indecency toward the gods, asks Euthyphro to explain what decency actually is, since Euthyphro claims to know, and Socrates will need such knowledge for his own defense.

    Euthyphro's first answer is: decency is what I am doing right now, prosecuting wrongdoers regardless of kinship. Socrates points out that this is an example, not a definition. There are many decent acts; what makes them all decent?

    Euthyphro tries again: decency is what the gods love. But the gods disagree [...]

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    First published:
    March 26th, 2026

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a9zfyHymPYY58D8hx/socrates-is-mortal

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