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Reposted by Eugene Vinitsky 🍒

Shubhendu Trivedi @shubhendu.bsky.social · 5h

Check out our paper on whether first-price auctions can efficiently allocate queries among strategic AI agents (in a decentralized serving-time market): arxiv.org/abs/2610.20587

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 4h

whoooo straight to the lab paper queue

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5h

Positive: received my first recruiting message through bluesky DMs Negative: done so via grok bot

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 8h

Correct. So it’s not really a helpful thing to point out

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 12h

Today is the least mad people wil be about AI for a looooong time

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 12h

Everything interesting sounds insane to most people at first

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13h

wonder if someone could just build the lea version of bluesky for art. Like, specifically focused on art discovery. Shouldn't be very hard..

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13h

So that’s for sure true but it’s not like lurking is improved via private accounts? Im just trying to understand how much demand there actually is for private accounts of this sort

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13h

What fraction of accounts on other social media platforms are private? Genuine curiosity if you happen to know

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13h

But doctor I am the professor with bad takes about AI

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 17h

At the same time, I can be mad at my community for using a website where if they go viral, there's no issue, whereas if I go viral I get a stream of comments telling me to go back to Israel

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 18h

As a regular participant in this, thanks for writing it up

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, it’s good to know this is possible! I wanted to use pangram to be lazy and this seems not too much harder. It’s just tempting to make visible what folks are currently trying

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 18h

Like I understand the analysis being Claude but why are the posts also Claude?!

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Why did they use Claude to write their posts though

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Unfortunate that his book didn’t succeed at its goal of ending history

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Err, in case that was unclear, i am also Jewish

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Look I was excited for the end of history I don’t know about you. My family has had enough history

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Apologies to the past for thinking y’all were backwards for your royal court intrigues, mad kings, and general disorder. It is now apparent that history is still happening.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yeah! My father in laws likes doing taxes, you know, there’s a lot of people out there

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I mean it is. This is, and I try not to be a hype person but I have to here, a really big breakthrough and it was almost rejected everywhere. had to do some real arguing to get it through

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yeah I mean if I’ve learned one thing it’s that this stuff is pretty arbitrary. Some of my best stuff seemed literally unpublishable for a while

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Thanks!! It took three years so it's nice to see it done. Also, first nature paper 😀

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

💯. It's a remarkable failure of imagination

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It's me, the person who thinks filling out forms manually is a crucial element of their humanity

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I get that! I can even understand how you can think how it would be cute and fun. But it seems like a really odd thing for a bunch of excellent researchers to do.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Like, they were obviously correct that they would make a bunch of money by doing so but given the crew they would have made a bunch of money doing literally anything

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Now that character AI is dead, what on earth was the point of it? Why did the researchers that created it think it was a good idea?

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

You’re not getting a lot of people to see things, but you are getting people of influence to see it. It’s fine, some people are craven

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And that’s okay, I understand why people need to give a proxy reason for “I crave power” hecause you’re not allowed to say that out loud

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It’s access to power for those folks. It doesn’t really lead to their work being more seen, everyone knows Twitter is not actually a good platform for distribution anymore so it’s just power

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’m care to say journalist or writer because I do understand why ml PhD students use it

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Like, if you are explicitly going back and posting there, as a journalist or writer, it’s about proximity to power not about access to info

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

You know, if your claim is that you simply *must* keep up to date with twitter, you know you can just build a bot to summarize it

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There is no amount of purported good I can do that would allow me to risk a 10% chance of all humanity dying off as part of a private enterprise

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Once again, to be ultra clear, I do not think the labs should be nationalized. But the labs keep arguing that they should be!

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Like, I don't agree with their arguments! But if you follow their own arguments to their conclusions, they literally should not be allowed to pursue their own research without extreme government oversight

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Most AI doom arguments are implicitly arguments for nationalizing the labs.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I mean if you follow their conclusions to their logical end this is what the US gov should do

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In general they'd like to believe this of anyone with bad politics

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I don't know how to tell if this is true or not (the community note suppression). In some sense, that's the core problem with closed systems but also, in this specific instance, I really can't figure out how to tell!

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