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Solim LeGris

@solimlegris.bsky.social
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PhD student at NYU. Interested in making machines insightful.

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Simone Moeller Krogh @simonemkrogh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Had a great time presenting my dissertation work with @liinapy.bsky.social at last week’s #SNL2026! 🧠 All three preprints are now out—here’s a quick breakdown of what we found 👇
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you view AI as filling in the convex hull of knowledge, this is great in the short term but bad in the long term if there's no one left to expand the hull after
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Simon Schug @smonsays.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Human thought is thought to be systematic: Do reasoning models have systematicity of thought? With @brendenlake.bsky.social we study this question in our new preprint arxiv.org/abs/2609.13948 Thread 🧵
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Moira (Molly) Dillon @moiradillon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thrilled to share my article—and cover!—for this month’s Trends in Cognitive Sciences: “The Cognitive Origins of Geometry.” From wandering in the world to triangles in the mind! 🔺 www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Eivinas Butkus @eivinas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
with Alexa Tartaglini, @zfjoshying.bsky.social, Ellen Su, @solimlegris.bsky.social, @soniajoseph.bsky.social, Patrick Butlin, @johnmorrison.bsky.social, @thisismyhat.bsky.social, @jennhu.bsky.social, Ilker Yildirim, @brendenlake.bsky.social, Niko Kriegeskorte
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Solim LeGris @solimlegris.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Congrats Rob, that’s huge!!
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Solim LeGris @solimlegris.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Congrats!
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Every person who is deceptively forcing me to read LLM text, I want you to know that I don't like you. This isn't an opinion, it's a full-fledged declaration.
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Solim LeGris @solimlegris.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Congratulations!
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Simon Schug @smonsays.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
LLM agents are a serious problem for online experiments. It is very easy to use them and very hard to spot them. What can researchers do? With @brendenlake.bsky.social, we suggest detecting LLMs based on their lack of human cognitive constraints in our #CogSci2026 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.00016
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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The issue with LLM writing is it breaks standard heuristics for deciding if something is worth spending time on
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Aaron Hertzmann @aaronhertzmann.com · 25/03/2026
If asked to draw a person's portrait, many people would say “I cannot draw.” Why is observational drawing so hard? In a new paper, @judithfan.bsky.social and I answer: it's the limitations of human vision. Learning to draw is learning skills to overcome them. aaronhertzmann.com/2026/03/23/d... 1/
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Why Drawing is Hard: Visual Limitations and the Skills to Overcome Them
If asked to draw a picture of a tree or a person in front of them, many people would say “I cannot draw.” Thirty years ago, two psychologists pointed out that this should be surprising. They reasoned ...
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todd gureckis @toddgureckis.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
draft lab ai policy, feel free to use, modify, or discuss! todd.gureckislab.org/2026/03/06/g...
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Lab AI Policy | Todd Gureckis
Clear expectations for how every member of our lab should use generative AI tools responsibly, transparently, and in a way that upholds rigorous, reproducible, open science.
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Daniel Thibault @danielthibault.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
On dit que la définition de la folie, c'est faire la même chose en espérant un résultat différent. Dans les 50 dernières années, combien de fois les États-Unis ont réussi à libérer un pays par les bombes déjà?
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Every sentence in this post is a masterpiece of anthropomorphic absurdity: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Introducing Claude's Corner
Why Anthropic is giving Claude Opus 3 its own Substack.
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Mengye Ren @mengyer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
AI may be reshaping not just the economy, but the political assumptions built around labor. In this blog post, I explore what this could mean for the future landscape of political economy: mengyeren.substack.com/p/politics-a...
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Politics After AI
From Capital vs. Labor to Acceleration vs. Preservation
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
lol at ‘many left ideas seem to reflect academic views’ as a bad thing
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Alex 🫩 @lengau.net · 17/02/2026
The idea that someone who gets around with a $2000 piece of equipment is "elitist" while someone who uses a $30,000+ piece of equipment that costs hundreds of dollars per month to operate is "normal" is quite the brainwashing.
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Writing is thinking "On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models." www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
once again being driven insane by ML conference submissions
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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science or neuroscience? Starting a substack (infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/why-isnt-m...) by writing down my thoughts on that question: as part of a first series of posts giving my current thoughts on the relation between these fields. 1/3
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Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science?
First post in a series on cognitive science and AI
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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
AGI is just astrology for smart computer boys
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Brenden Lake @brendenlake.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Today in Nature Machine Intelligence, Kazuki Irie & I discuss 4 classic challenges for neural nets — systematic generalization, catastrophic forgetting, few-shot learning, & reasoning. We argue there is a unifying fix: the right incentives & practice. rdcu.be/eLRmg
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todd gureckis @toddgureckis.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Interested in research in my lab? intake.gureckislab.org/interest/
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This form is for students and scientists interested in doing research with us. Before applying, please read this page to learn more about our lab and opportunities. Keep in mind that we have a limited number of spots and many applicants. We review applications submitted through this form and usually can respond within two weeks. Due to limited time, Prof. Gureckis does not reply to emails about research opportunities that are not submitted through this form.
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todd gureckis @toddgureckis.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🚨 New preprint: "Decision rule inference limits social escape from learning traps" (with Rheza Budiono and Cate Hartley of the @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social ✨). Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps.... This is more work on a very curious phenomena!
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todd gureckis @toddgureckis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Today we open-sourced a new project for developing behavioral experiments online. It is called Smile. Announcement of v0.1.0: todd.gureckislab.org/2025/07/22/s... Smile has been used internally in my lab for several years and has substantially increased our productivity.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 04/06/2025
I don't know what world hassabis is living in but the reality is the reverse. AI is creating a world whereby there's less trust (by making it difficult to differentiate real from ai generated), ever wider inequity gap, and ever more intrusive surveillance
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Guy Davidson ✈️ NeurIPS 2025 @guydav.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Fantastic new work by @johnchen6.bsky.social (with @brendenlake.bsky.social and me trying not to cause too much trouble). We study systematic generalization in a safety setting and find LLMs struggle to consistently respond safely when we vary how we ask naive questions. More analyses in the paper!
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Guy Davidson ✈️ NeurIPS 2025 @guydav.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
New preprint alert! We often prompt ICL tasks using either demonstrations or instructions. How much does the form of the prompt matter to the task representation formed by a language model? Stick around to find out 1/N
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
my god
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Guy Davidson ✈️ NeurIPS 2025 @guydav.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Out today in Nature Machine Intelligence! From childhood on, people can create novel, playful, and creative goals. Models have yet to capture this ability. We propose a new way to represent goals and report a model that can generate human-like goals in a playful setting... 1/N
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I wrote about the concept of agency (both human and artificial) in the year 2025. gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2...
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2025: Agency gained and lost
If you’ve had even a passing glance at tech journalism over the past few months, you know the top buzzword for AI in 2025 is agentic. Agentic AI (according to many think pieces and press releases a…
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todd gureckis @toddgureckis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Our paper on if you can incentivize rule induction in humans with money is finally out (answer is: it appears to be a very weak/0-ish effect in contrast to the huge effect of financial incentives on rote, repetitive tasks). credit to pamop, ben newell & dan bartels psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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todd gureckis @toddgureckis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
the rapid transition of academics off x (despite temporarily reducing reach/followers) makes you wonder what’s stopping us from ending the for-profit, closed access publishing industry. it’s, like…. we can just do it? or if not, interesting to consider what the inertial differences are.
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