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April Fool’s

TagLast edit: 10 Jul 2023 19:00 UTC by duck_master

April Fool’s Day is an annual event every year on April 1, and is celebrated by practical jokes or humorous content (such as the posts under this tag). The event can be thought of as “Notice Your Surprise” day.

Special rule for this tag: Please don’t add entries to this tag during April Fool’s, to not spoil all the surprise as soon as people see the top of the post, but feel free to add any old April Fool’s jokes starting on the 2nd.

See also

Why We Launched LessWrong.SubStack

Ben Pace1 Apr 2021 6:34 UTC
131 points
44 comments4 min readLW link

[April Fools’ Day] In­tro­duc­ing Open As­teroid Impact

Linch1 Apr 2024 8:14 UTC
355 points
35 comments1 min readLW link3 reviews
(openasteroidimpact.org)

Re­plac­ing Karma with Good Heart To­kens (Worth $1!)

1 Apr 2022 9:31 UTC
226 points
173 comments4 min readLW link

AI Safety via Luck

Jozdien1 Apr 2023 20:13 UTC
82 points
7 comments11 min readLW link

A Selec­tion of Ran­domly Selected SAE Features

1 Apr 2024 9:09 UTC
109 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[April Fools] User GPT2 is Banned

jimrandomh2 Apr 2019 6:00 UTC
65 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Shut­ting down AI is not enough. We need to de­stroy all tech­nol­ogy.

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2023 21:03 UTC
145 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong: After Dark, a new side of LessWrong

So8res1 Apr 2024 22:44 UTC
36 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Evolu­tion of Hu­mans Was Net-Nega­tive for Hu­man Values

Zack_M_Davis1 Apr 2024 16:01 UTC
38 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

April Fools: An­nounc­ing LessWrong 3.0 – Now in VR!

1 Apr 2020 8:00 UTC
94 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

April Fools: An­nounc­ing: Karma 2.0

habryka1 Apr 2018 10:33 UTC
63 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

[April Fools’] Defini­tive con­fir­ma­tion of shard theory

TurnTrout1 Apr 2023 7:27 UTC
170 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

AI com­mu­nity build­ing: EliezerKart

Christopher King1 Apr 2023 15:25 UTC
46 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

A policy guaran­teed to in­crease AI timelines

Richard Korzekwa 1 Apr 2023 20:50 UTC
48 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

OMMC An­nounces RIP

1 Apr 2024 23:20 UTC
193 points
6 comments2 min readLW link1 review

An­thropic’s Pause is the Most Ex­pen­sive Alarm in Cor­po­rate His­tory [Fic­tion]

Ruby2 Apr 2026 6:04 UTC
153 points
18 comments12 min readLW link

Pro­posal: Butt bumps as a de­fault for phys­i­cal greetings

Adam Zerner1 Apr 2023 12:48 UTC
53 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing Suffer­ing For Good

Garrett Baker1 Apr 2024 17:08 UTC
76 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

VDT: a solu­tion to de­ci­sion theory

L Rudolf L1 Apr 2025 21:04 UTC
358 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

A re­port about LessWrong karma volatility from a differ­ent universe

Ben Pace1 Apr 2023 21:48 UTC
183 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Orders of mag­ni­tude: use semi­tones, not decibels

Oliver Sourbut1 Apr 2026 22:41 UTC
56 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(www.oliversourbut.net)

Amaz­ing Break­through Day: April 1st

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Mar 2008 5:45 UTC
84 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

LessWrong’s (first) album: I Have Been A Good Bing

1 Apr 2024 7:33 UTC
581 points
183 comments11 min readLW link

New Cause Area Proposal

CallumMcDougall1 Apr 2025 7:12 UTC
110 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

I’m re­sign­ing as Meetup Czar. What’s next?

Screwtape2 Apr 2025 0:30 UTC
71 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

So You Created a So­ciopath—New Book An­nounce­ment!

Garrett Baker1 Apr 2024 18:02 UTC
53 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

A new acausal trad­ing plat­form: RobinShould

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2021 16:56 UTC
117 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Con­sider showering

bohaska1 Apr 2025 23:54 UTC
69 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Good Heart Dona­tion Lottery

Gordon Seidoh Worley1 Apr 2022 17:51 UTC
72 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing Im­pact Is­land: A New EA Real­ity TV Show

Linch1 Apr 2022 17:28 UTC
69 points
14 comments4 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

The case for cre­at­ing un­al­igned superintelligence

Yair Halberstadt2 Apr 2025 6:47 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Beyond Hu­man Wis­dom: Can Hu­man­ity Sur­vive the Rise of AGI?

Chris_Leong1 Apr 2026 11:40 UTC
−11 points
0 comments31 min readLW link

Fol­low me on TikTok

lsusr1 Apr 2025 8:22 UTC
44 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Cen­ter for Ap­plied Postrationality

Pee Doom2 Apr 2019 1:17 UTC
111 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Think­ing well

Vaniver1 Apr 2015 22:03 UTC
46 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

You will crash your car in front of my house within the next week

Richard Korzekwa 1 Apr 2025 21:43 UTC
80 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Ap­ply to be a Safety Eng­ineer at Lock­heed Martin!

yanni kyriacos31 Mar 2024 21:02 UTC
86 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong has been ac­quired by EA

habryka1 Apr 2025 13:09 UTC
366 points
55 comments1 min readLW link

April drafts

AI Impacts1 Apr 2021 18:10 UTC
49 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

In­tro­duc­ing BenchBench: An In­dus­try Stan­dard Bench­mark for AI Strength

Jozdien2 Apr 2025 2:11 UTC
49 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Gra­di­ent Des­cent on the Hu­man Brain

1 Apr 2024 22:39 UTC
61 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing Deepgeek

Ligeia1 Apr 2025 16:41 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Us­ing pre­dic­tion mar­kets to gen­er­ate LessWrong posts

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2022 16:33 UTC
85 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Lichen as the com­mon an­ces­tor of all life on earth

eukaryote2 Apr 2026 5:12 UTC
29 points
1 comment7 min readLW link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

[GPT-4] On the Grad­ual Emer­gence of Mech­a­nized In­tel­lect: A Trea­tise from the Year 1924

tailcalled1 Apr 2024 19:14 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

My “in­fo­haz­ards small work­ing group” Sig­nal Chat may have en­coun­tered minor leaks

Linch2 Apr 2025 1:03 UTC
56 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Launch­ing: The “Hu­man-AI Sym­bio­sis Move­ment” (HAISM)

Jordan Arel1 Apr 2026 18:01 UTC
5 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Thou­sands of mal­i­cious ac­tors on the fu­ture of AI misuse

1 Apr 2024 10:08 UTC
37 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Sun Shrimp suffering

Jonathan Eicher2 Apr 2026 0:15 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Some lesser-known megapro­ject ideas

Linch2 Apr 2023 1:14 UTC
20 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

I’m Su­ing An­thropic for Unau­tho­rized Use of My Personality

Linch2 Apr 2026 1:41 UTC
46 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing EA Omelas

DusanDNesic1 Apr 2026 11:16 UTC
26 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Death with Awesomeness

osmarks1 Apr 2024 20:24 UTC
6 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing Dou­ble­haven with Reflec­tions on Humour

J Bostock1 Apr 2026 9:02 UTC
50 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

FLAKE-Bench: Out­sourc­ing Awk­ward­ness in the Age of AI

1 Apr 2025 17:08 UTC
45 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Re­pairing the Effort Asymmetry

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)1 Apr 2023 20:23 UTC
40 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing Anti-Mo­ral Realism

J Bostock1 Apr 2026 9:32 UTC
1 point
1 comment3 min readLW link

Giv­ing up on EA af­ter 13 years

Jackson Wagner1 Apr 2026 6:34 UTC
30 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Happy No­tice Your Sur­prise Day!

Vaniver1 Apr 2016 13:02 UTC
30 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Brain Break­through! It’s Made of Neu­rons!

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Apr 2008 19:00 UTC
80 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

Manafold Mar­kets is out of mana 🤭

Austin Chen1 Apr 2022 22:07 UTC
36 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

God Coin: A Modest Proposal

Mahdi Complex1 Apr 2024 12:04 UTC
−8 points
5 comments22 min readLW link

An Aver­age Dialogue

Nicholas Kross1 Apr 2023 4:01 UTC
4 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The quest for gen­eral in­tel­li­gence is hit­ting a wall [April Fool’s]

Sean Herrington2 Apr 2026 5:16 UTC
52 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The In­de­struc­tible Future

WillPetillo2 Apr 2026 2:57 UTC
33 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Sim­plic­ity: a New Method

Ligeia2 Apr 2026 3:28 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion to Neo-Pan­glos­sian Philosophy

Orioth1 Apr 2026 22:59 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing my re­tire­ment to a life of en­tirely failing to des­per­ately seek re­newed meaning

Joe Rogero1 Apr 2026 16:40 UTC
20 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(subatomicarticles.com)

Sun Shrimp Welfare

Jack1 Apr 2026 16:52 UTC
38 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Chat, is this sus?

Tyler Tracy1 Apr 2026 17:32 UTC
54 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

What can we learn about childrea­r­ing from J. S. Mill?

Adam Scherlis2 Apr 2024 6:06 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

car­bon offset ar­bi­trage opportunity

NickyP2 Apr 2026 2:22 UTC
17 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(blog.sus.cat)

New Align­ment Re­search Agenda: Mas­sive Mul­ti­player Or­ganism Oversight

TsviBT1 Apr 2023 8:02 UTC
19 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Spec­u­la­tion: Sam’s a Se­cret Sa­mu­rai Superhero

Ligeia2 Apr 2026 7:24 UTC
14 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing LIMBO: Manag­ing the Si­mu­la­tion to Main­tain Op­ti­mal P(DOOM)

faul_sname1 Apr 2026 10:44 UTC
67 points
3 comments11 min readLW link

A Con­fes­sion about the LessWrong Team

Ruby1 Apr 2023 21:47 UTC
87 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

[New Re­search] You need Slack to be an effec­tive agent

sudo1 Apr 2026 5:51 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing: Mech­a­nize War

Mechanize War1 Apr 2026 19:41 UTC
10 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(mechanizew.ar)

ACME Align­ment Co An­nounces: Align­ing Humans

Bridgett Kay1 Apr 2026 1:51 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

PauseAI and E/​Acc Should Switch Sides

WillPetillo1 Apr 2025 23:25 UTC
78 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
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