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New AI research Research 14h ago
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equivariance at scale paper

Does equivariance matter at scale?

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Eugene Vinitsky Juan Diego Rodriguez

“Does physical modeling matter or should we just do data-driven stuff? I feel like this paper characterizes things perfectly: arxiv.org/abs/2410.23179. Physics-based modeling is always helpful but the relative gain closes at scale”

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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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Developing Policy & governance Research 1d ago
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success conditioning policy improvement RL paper

Success Conditioning as Policy Improvement: The Optimization Problem Solved by Imitating Success

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Eugene Vinitsky

“Weirdly unnoticed but super interesting paper formalizing what's going on in all the "just imitate successful trajectories" work arxiv.org/abs/2601.18175”

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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”

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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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5 experts · 11 posts · 17h 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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2 experts · 9 posts · 18h 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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