Cool work from friends at GDM
06.03.2026 15:19
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Cool work from friends at GDM
Are AI models effective collaborators, or mere assistants awaiting your next command? (Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2602.24188)
To find out, we make AI collaborate with itself, in private information games: tasks that require sharing private information, like this chess board ordering task.
I thought at first this was a Weird Al Yankovic video and I was like, huh, I haven't seen that one
Team of PhDs, phooey. Using our LLM is like trying to get an answer in a faculty meeting at CMU
And face it, writing your own code is more satisfying anyway.
“rural voters who lost hospitals were roughly 5–10 percentage points more likely to vote Republican in subsequent presidential elections. If anything state Republicans seemed to benefit in rural areas from rejecting Medicaid and resulting rural health woes.” @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social
Counter point: super intelligence is here and encouraging us to use cool and novel phrases. After all, you can’t lick a badger twice
IMO, the most important piece on AI of the last 6 months and I recommend it to everyone. A genuinely careful consideration of the technology and its intersections with culture and labor from @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social Authors of AI Snake Oil substack.com/home/post/p-...
This is excellent and you should read it
destroying the liberal democratic values that made america a haven for jews for much of the last century does not make american jews safe and these nazis all know it but they're going to keep harping on it til you all associate us with the loss of your freedom
Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
She’s a PhD student, almost done with her dissertation. She came to the US on a Fulbright and completed a masters at Columbia. She is us, our students, our colleagues.
You can read her extremely reasonable op-ed here: www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
We have to do something, what can we do?
Government efficiency
I needed this.
This is really concerning, not just the raid but that Indiana University has literally disappeared XiaoFeng Wang (a full professor with a named chair position) from their web sites.
The attacks on Chinese-born faculty were bad in Trump 1, but this I worry is way way worse.
Word. The last few decades, working in computer science research in the US had meant working with brilliant people from all over the world. That's always been our strength.
one rather remarkable footnote about the ozturk matter is
• six plainclothes officers on site
• and presumably support staff at hq
• stalked her for two days
• had a (private?) plane waiting to bundle her out of the state
like, they spent a *lot* of resources on this lady
It is where Yann Le Cunn developed CNNs, leading to his Turing Award.
Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
This is exactly right. And why you need pre commitment mechanisms
Nerdy but important
A bit of a mess around the conflict of COLM with the ARR (and to lesser degree ICML) reviews release. We feel this is creating a lot of pressure and uncertainty. So, we are pushing our deadlines:
Abstracts due March 22 AoE (+48hr)
Full papers due March 28 AoE (+24hr)
Plz RT 🙏
NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.
Huge turnout, 140 people and $15k raised for Casa San Jose bail fund!
Also, explaining something to someone stupid is the best way to understand it. Having a stupid person right there to ask questions is awesome.
I feel like being slightly stupid helps you do good research.
When stuff becomes too complicated you give up when you're stupid, but if you're too smart you might push through.
Being stupid forces you to take the simplest path.
Haven't seen much about this here but thehill.com/homenews/hou...
Trans people are targeted because their very existence demonstrates remarkable power: the analytical depth to reimagine identity and the courage to live authentically despite opposition—qualities that challenge our current rigid power structures
Word. I'm sure everyone working on Grok that got a degree here was funded by the US government. What are they thinking? Agi is coming so wtf?