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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 4d ago
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NYT essay AI won't steal jobs

Opinion | Why A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs - The New York Times

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Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Jeffrey P. Bigham zeynep tufekci Eileen Clancy 🧿 Daniel Solove Neil Turkewitz samuel mehr +4

“Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...”

“usually a fan of Zeynep's accounts, but AI will get better and better at customer service until it's at least as good as humans, … a big part of that will be systems engineering, including architectures that enable one AI interaction to share with the next …”

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Eugene Vinitsky: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
Eugene Vinitsky: The only prompting was to tell the model that it was possible to check that links were correct
Ted Underwood: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
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Established AI field signal Analysis 4d ago
AI researchers Twitter dependence essay

What it means that the AI research community can't quit twitter - rl-blogging

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Eugene Vinitsky Michael Ekstrand VE, cybersocial occult investigator

“The AI community failed to exit twitter. What implications can we draw about what people believe from this?”

“References 1) rl-blogging.leaflet.pub/3mqxlvav2ss2z”

10 experts discussed this · 27 posts
Eugene Vinitsky: The AI community failed to exit twitter. What implications can we draw about what people believe from this?
Michael Ekstrand: The AI community failed to exit twitter. What implications can we draw about what people believe from this?
Eugene Vinitsky: Yep! This is why I'm less interested in castigating than building better spaces. This was more an idle exploration of what people must think to justify their behavior
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Established Agents & robotics Research 10d ago
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Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs

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Eugene Vinitsky Tim van Erven

“These are very odd failures! arxiv.org/abs/2211.00241”

5 experts discussed this · 14 posts
Eugene Vinitsky: Taking more seriously the claim that recent ML models do not "reason", it still is quite odd the particular ways that superhuman game-playing models fail, suggesting that what they're doing is some…
Eugene Vinitsky: These are very odd failures! arxiv.org/abs/2211.00241
tweety fish: this is absolutely my hobbyhorse but nothing I've seen yet has convinced me that we do a good job of evaluating how the sort of solution manifold of LLMs diverges from that of humans and that strik…
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5 experts · 11 posts · 19h ago
Mark Riedl Eugene Vinitsky Stella Biderman David Marx Rich Harang
Stella Biderman: If you believe their story, OpenAI accidentally committed cyber warfare against Hugging Face while doing what they thought was an internal test of a model without internet access. In six months tim…
Stella Biderman: If EleutherAI did this, I would be in jail. If DeepSeek did this, the government would consider it an act of cyber warfare. To be clear, this is the appropriate response. But the combination of OAI…
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7 experts · 9 posts · 9d ago
Naomi Saphra Maria Antoniak Eugene Vinitsky Christian Wolf Djamé 🟥 Claas Voelcker David Picard ICML Conference
ICML Conference: This year, ICML maintains a presence on Twitter/X, Bsky, and LinkedIn. The other two have much higher engagement than Bsky. We would consider using Facebook as well, but we are currently unable to …
ICML Conference: Note that policies on social media use may differ from year to year, and are at the discretion of the organizing committee. Another organizer for another conference in another year thought Bsky was…
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4 experts · 20 posts · 8d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Colin rev. howard arson Mary Branscombe
rev. howard arson: working on this in 2019, the reason we delayed releasing any LLMs to the public was specifically because "if we fuck this up or handle it irresponsibly, we will ruin first the web, then society, an…
rev. howard arson: 2022, almost instantaneously, coinciding with Sergey Brin having gone completely fucking insane during the pandemic and then returning to involvement at Alphabet. (he spent almost a decade prior hi…
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2 experts · 9 posts · 19h ago
Eugene Vinitsky Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Eugene Vinitsky: Has a chess player ever tried to beat a model by learning to mimic a best response to the model? Doesn‘t seem impossible?
Eugene Vinitsky: It’s obviously uninteresting in the single model case since they presumably have deterministic exploits but maybe there’s a transferable strategy. Platonic hypothesis of chess models or something
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3 experts · 3 posts · 18h ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Ryan Moulton
Ryan Moulton: In Watchmen, once superheroes become real, all the comic authors switch to writing about pirates. I feel like a similar thing is happening with sci fi vs fantasy.
Ted Underwood: In Watchmen, once superheroes become real, all the comic authors switch to writing about pirates. I feel like a similar thing is happening with sci fi vs fantasy.
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2 experts · 14 posts · 3d ago
Eugene Vinitsky mackuba.eu
mackuba.eu: My folks (iOSDev people) weren't here and still mostly aren't here, but I still moved here and for a long time tried to drag everyone here one by one, built a feed and worked on it a lot… someone's…
mackuba.eu: Otherwise nothing ever changes by itself
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