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Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · 11d

"Why doesn't my kid stop dropping his pizza on the floor and laughing?" That puts his repeated remarks about ChatGPT's PhD-level intelligence into perspective.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16d

Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16d

Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · 18d

I love Pluribus.

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · 19d

What do people think about IJCAI's Primary Paper Initiative ($100 paper submission fee, first submission is free)? The proceeds will be "exclusively directed toward the support of the reviewing community".

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19d

Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’

AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’ A single person claims to have authored 113 academic papers on artificial intelligence this year, 89 of which will be presented this week at one of the world’s leading conference on AI and machine learning, which has raised questions among computer scientists about the state of AI research. The author, Kevin Zhu, recently finished a bachelor’s degree in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and now runs Algoverse, an AI research and mentoring company for high schoolers – many of whom are his co-authors on the papers. Zhu himself graduated from high school in 2018. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · 19d

After Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022, FIFA gives us Trump 2026.

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · 19d

And 8 of the 12 teams that place 3rd will also advance to the knockout round. The group stage will be a farce.

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · 19d

Oh right. I didn't realize they had been absent since 1998!

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · 19d

They participated four times when there were only 4 groups 😊 Four-time champion Italy is still not qualified 😧

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · 19d

Until 1982, there were 4 groups at FIFA World Cups. Having 12 groups is just ridiculous. Germany is facing Curaçao, the smallest nation ever to participate in a World Cup. They have a population of approximately 150,000, comparable to cities such as Heidelberg, Darmstadt, and Ingolstadt.

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Nov 16

All these acronyms appear in his 1986 book "The Logic of Collective Choice".

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Nov 16

Political scientist Thomas Schwartz (✝ 2024) surely had a great sense of humour when it came to acronyms:

GEneralized Top CHoice Assumption (GETCHA)
Generalized Optimal CHoice Axiom (GOCHA)
SOlution COndition (SOCO)
MUltiSTAge CHoice operation (MUSTACH)
BInary-CHoice property (BICH)

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Nov 15

Great series of primers on democracy reform that specifically address problems in the US: the electoral college, private fundraising, gerrymandering, unavailability of vote-by-mail, first-past-the-post (plurality), etc.
Don't miss the article about Condorcet voting.
effectivegov.uchicago.edu/primers

Democracy Reform Primer Series

effectivegov.uchicago.edu

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Nov 15

How about this one:

effectivegov.uchicago.edu/primers/cond...

Condorcet Voting

effectivegov.uchicago.edu

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Nov 15

Probably, but I don't have a link at hand.

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Nov 15

Nice survey on how to vote on divisible resources (such as budget, space, or time)
www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~warut/votin...

www.comp.nus.edu.sg

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Nov 15

Interesting German article that proposes using a Condorcet-consistent method for Bundestag elections.
doi.org/10.1515/pwp-...

Wie sollten wir unseren Bundestag wählen?

Zusammenfassung Bei der Bundestagswahl im Februar 2025 wurde erstmals das von der vormaligen Ampelmehrheit beschlossene Wahlrecht angewendet. Es hatte zum Ziel, den Bundestag zu verkleinern – was auch...

doi.org

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Sep 7

Nowadays, every single AAAI publishes more papers per year than have ever appeared in, say, Social Choice and Welfare (ca. 2k papers since 1984) or Games and Economic Behavior (ca. 3k papers since 1989). There’s just no way that so many papers deserve to be published. In any area.

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Sep 7

AAAI 2026 has received more than 29k submissions. Peer-reviewing is completely broken for AI. It’s not only the well-documented issues, such as self-nominated PC members, mismatched referees, useless reports, fraudulent submissions, low-quality papers, etc.

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Sep 7

Today's post by the single finest Nobel Peace Prize candidate ever.

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Sep 6

That one's even better.
youtu.be/tLQbpCGqizM

WATCH: Envoy Witkoff calls Trump 'single finest' Nobel Prize candidate ever

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Sep 6

youtu.be/YnNSnJbjdws

Darth Vader "I find your lack of faith disturbing" - HD1080p - Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope

YouTube video by Star Jedi 951

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Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thank you, Lord Vader, for hosting us.
youtu.be/IGpXnDiRia8

Trump Hosts Tech CEOs From Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google And OpenAI At White House | 10 News

YouTube video by 10 News

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Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Apr 23

Ironically, the biggest obstacle to broader adoption of LLMs seems to be their lack of reliability, a trait that is otherwise characteristic of computers.
Like the worst of us, they just make up facts rather than admit they don’t know. I appreciate anyone who admits they don’t know something.

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Apr 8

Borda strikes back.

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Apr 8

Very impressed by ChatGPT4o's new and improved image generation capabilities.

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Apr 3

www.techdirt.com/2025/04/03/t...

Trump Declares A Trade War On Uninhabited Islands, US Military, And Economic Logic

There’s a fundamental problem with Donald Trump’s new trade policy: it fails a test that actual 5th graders can pass. I know this because I tried explaining his “Liberation Day&#8…

www.techdirt.com

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Apr 1

Really hard to tell April Fool's jokes from genuine news this year.
US regrets that far-right extremist Marine Le Pen is convicted of fraud. Trump abandons money laundering law. Musk pays millions to Wisconsin voters. Innocent father from Maryland accidentally deported to El Salvador mega prison.

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Mar 21

Happy to see that people in machine learning (ML) are drawing on results from social choice theory. Especially maximal lotteries (ML) are getting some attention because of their robustness against clones. I recently compiled a topical bibliography of my ML papers: www.cs.cit.tum.de/en/dss/brand...

🔆 Maximal Lotteries

www.cs.cit.tum.de

Felix Brandt @felix-brandt.bsky.social · Jan 28

A Special Issue of Social Choice Welfare on Fair Public Decision Making: Allocating Budgets, Seats, and Probability, edited by Haris Aziz, Edith Elkind, Jérôme Lang, and myself has just appeared.
link.springer.com/journal/355/...

Social Choice and Welfare | Volume 64, issue 1

Volume 64, issue 1 articles listing for Social Choice and Welfare

link.springer.com

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