Ishan Kansal

Learning Investing @ Sadev Ventures | Ex - CRED | Snabbit

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

I think one of the biggest sources of modern stress is hiding in plain sight.

And it may have very little to do with having too little. I wrote about it here. https://t.co/lY7bwwZAX6

[Miles Deutscher @milesdeutscher]

Crazy to think that in 2026 we've had:

• Anthropic's head of safeguards quit, warning "the world is in peril" (Feb)
• OpenAI dissolved its own mission alignment team (Feb)
• Unrestricted AI usage for the Pentagon (causing several researchers to quit)
• Several AI models escaping sandbox testing (Since ~Q2)
• 1,100+ frontier-lab employees signing a letter begging the government to pace AI development (Jul-Aug)

And today yet another top researcher saying this.

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

Evan is also from @AnthropicAI!

[Evan Hubinger @EvanHub]

Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

Game theory playing out at planetary scale.

Everyone would be better off cooperating. But nobody can afford to cooperate.

The Prisoner’s Dilemma. Except, prisoners are countries.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

@PositiveGamma I trust you on this!

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

I asked instinct to manage a list of all open threads on Google tasks and keep updating it basis our chat.

It’s not the best but it gives me the app like interface for when I need it along with due dates, sub tasks, etc. Works well because Google Tasks is on both Desktop and Mobile.

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

People only pay for four things.

Pain - make it disappear.
Effort - do it for me / do it faster.
Feeling - let me feel what I never otherwise would.
Status - let the world envy me.

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

@NirantK Both in early rollouts. By stellar founders.

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

Software next?

Artisanal, handcrafted code.

Available at a 63% premium only.

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

Seek agency. Be the person who owns the problem, not merely the task.

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

The cost of building software has collapsed. The cost of being chosen hasn’t.

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

@shikhars_ It will become impossible to keep up with that guide!

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

@anand_harshit_ What does it look like now?

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

@ShubhKD https://t.co/ZyfeykFdda

Wrote a follow up here.

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

In my last post, I wrote about a form of modern stress: Not having too little. Having too much to choose from.

A friend and former colleague asked the obvious follow-up: Why should abundance create stress at all?

I wrote about it here! https://t.co/y87z0bbzKC

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

I think one of the biggest sources of modern stress is hiding in plain sight.

And it may have very little to do with having too little. I wrote about it here. https://t.co/lY7bwwZAX6

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

If you haven’t read the first part, I am sharing it here. This post builds on that idea.

https://t.co/oOEDkz8iTI

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

I think one of the biggest sources of modern stress is hiding in plain sight.

And it may have very little to do with having too little. I wrote about it here. https://t.co/lY7bwwZAX6

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

In my last post, I wrote about a form of modern stress: Not having too little. Having too much to choose from.

A friend and former colleague asked the obvious follow-up: Why should abundance create stress at all?

I wrote about it here! https://t.co/y87z0bbzKC

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

@ShubhKD Going to share more on this tomorrow!

[Ishan Kansal @Kansaltant]

Fear is a choice!