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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I'm "tech people" and I loved your piece. The problem with AI discourse is that two very loud sides within tech are dogmatic about their belief. The AI boosters believe LLMs are god-level superintelligence, and the AI cynics believe AI is a slop machine with no practical use.

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

One could argue that reinforcement learning itself has its roots in bayesian stats. Instead of calling it "updating the priors" ML scientists called it "updating the reward function".

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

My FIRE plan isn't really full retirement. I would like to leave corporate tech at some point to work on things I care about.

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It honestly takes concerted effort to make Grok do what it did. Elon heard complaints from far-right grifters that Grok was too liberal, and he probably forced his scientists to fine tune the model into far right territory. The nazification is the logical end state of that endeavor.

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

That is exactly what I meant by concerted effort. He was getting complaints from right-wing grifters that Grok was "too liberal" because truth has a liberal bias. He took that feedback to heart and let his team fine-tune the model into straight-up Naziville.

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

In no particular order. - Three Body Problem - Ministry for the Future - fair warning, the beginning of the book is horrific, and it's getting closer and closer to reality - Lessons in Chemistry - Anxious People - Man Called Ove

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It also speaks to the absolute lack of media literacy among the conservative types. They think Star Wars, X-Men and comic books are all apolitical.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

When you live in a world where caring about other people is political and billionaires gleefully celebrate using the power of the government to hurt people, a vanilla Superman story from the comic books reads like a radical leftist agenda.

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Due to the industry I work in, there are quite a few connections that haven't made the transition to Bluesky. I stopped posting a while ago, had ads blocked, so Twitter likely lost money on my being there. Better late than never, I suppose? bsky.app/profile/vine...

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I finally did it! Deactivated my Twitter account. Grok turning Nazi was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. It takes deliberate and concerted effort to make Grok do what it did.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

After a short era in which people questioned the value of academia in ML, its value is more obvious than ever. Big labs stopped publishing the minute commercial incentives showed up and are relentlessly focused on a singular vision of scaling. Academia is a meaningful complement, bringing... 1/2

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The 1950s also had an explicitly exclusionary system. www.npr.org/2017/05/03/5... Black people couldn't buy houses, and women couldn't even open bank accounts. Whenever someone talks about the halcyon days of the 1950s, I automatically assume they are a white, upper-middle-class, straight man.

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A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America

Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation," in which people of color were purposely excluded from suburbs.

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Dignity of labor is a foreign concept to our people. I reckon it primarily comes from the caste system that assigns "value" to different types of labor. So, predominantly dominant caste business owners don't feel as guilty abusing those who belong in the lower strata of the labor pool.

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

These two paragraphs point to the precarity of the situation we're in. Entire industries are reorganizing to cater to the top 10 percent, who are themselves propped up by the bubble-like valuations of real estate and tech stocks. The whole economy starts feeling like a house of cards.

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Thank YOU for writing so eloquently and distilling such a complex topic in ways that non-economists like myself can understand.

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This article really helped clarify things for me. Economic indicators seemed great: low unemployment, high consumer spending despite CPI inflation. Turns out a lot of those indicators are propped up by the top 10% of the wealth distribution, which makes the whole economy very fragile.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Glad MAGA voters are hearing what Musk, Vivek, and the elites of the GOP think of them. They've always looked down on Trump voters. They mock them as stupid and ignorant behind their backs. Now Musk is calling them "contemptible fools." Well, here's your new master, MAGA. Enjoy.

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

First they came for undocumented immigrants. I cheered because I was a legal migrant. Then they came for legal Haitian Asylum Seekers. I cheered because I was on H1B. Then they came for H1Bs. I cheered because I like pulling up the ladder behind me. Then they came for me...

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Indian Origin Silicon Valley founders and VCs learning in real time that their chosen side doesn't stop being racist just because "they are one of the good ones"

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#BookChallenge Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day20

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

#BookChallenge Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day19

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

#BookChallenge Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day18

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

#BookChallenge Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day17

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I accept the #BookChallenge : Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day16

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I accept the #BookChallenge: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day15

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I accept the #BookChallenge: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day14

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I accept the #BookChallenge: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day13

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I accept the #BookChallenge: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day12

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I accept the #BookChallenge: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day11

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I accept the #BookChallenge: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day10

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I accept the #BookChallenge: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day9

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I accept the #BookChallenge: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day8

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I was out at a conference last week. So catchup posting. I accept the #BookChallenge: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day7

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It's an excellent book! I should read it again.

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

Not dunking on this person in particular, but I hear this a lot from people who aren’t professional engineers. The difficult part of software has nothing to do with code.

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Decatur, GA. Lots of mixed use housing and businesses very close to transit. One of the few pockets of walkable urbanism in the metro Atlanta area.

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The last #PremierLeague 4-0 result for #ManUnited was in January 2020. What a performance today. Ruben Amorim's united is giving us hope.

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Love it! End the reign of Thanksgiving Turkeys. They are kind of good the day of and become a chore to finish after. It's like Stockholm syndrome at national scale.

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Vineeth Loganathan @vineethl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

So far I've enjoyed the experience at @bsky.app. I manually added folks I've enjoyed interacting with on Twitter, but making that automatic would do wonders for the first-time user experience.

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