In a far away universe, a news report is written about LessWrong. The following passages have been lifted over and written into this post...

Early one morning all voting on LessWrong was halted

*"LessWrong is currently unable to process karma gains. We strongly advise against making new comments about the art of rationality or AI notkilleveryoneism. Voting has been disabled."*

It was said that there was nothing to worry about

But then GreaterWrong announced their intent to acquire and then un-acquire LessWrong

All LessWrong users lost all of their karma, but a poorly labeled 'fiat@' account on the EA Forum was discovered with no posts and a similarly large amount of karma

Habryka states that LessWrong and the EA Forum "work at arms length"

Later, Zvi Mowshowitz publishes a leaked internal accounting sheet from the LessWrong team

It includes entries for "weirdness points" "utils" "Kaj_Sotala" "countersignals" and "Anthropic". We recommend all readers open up the sheet to read in full.

Later, LessWrong filed for internet-points-bankruptcy and Holden Karnofsky was put in charge.

Karnofsky reportedly said:

I have over 15 years of nonprofit governance experience. I have been the Chief Executive Officer of GiveWell, the Chief Executive Officer of Open Philanthropy, and as of recently an intern at an AI safety organization. Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of nonprofit board controls and such a complete absence of basic decision theoretical cooperation as occurred here. From compromised epistemic integrity and faulty community oversight, to the concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of biased, low-decoupling, and potentially akratic rationalists, this situation is unprecedented.

Sadly the authors did not have time to conclude the reporting, though they list other things that happened in a comment below.

April Fool's

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