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Sendhil Mullainathan

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Sendhil Mullainathan is an American professor of economics and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Sendhil Mullainathan @sendhil.bsky.social · Jul 14

Really excited about this paper. Part of our continued efforts to make sense of what ML models are and aren’t doing.

Keyon Vafa @keyonv.bsky.social · Jul 14

Can an AI model predict perfectly and still have a terrible world model?

What would that even mean?

Our new ICML paper (poster tomorrow!) formalizes these questions.

One result tells the story: A transformer trained on 10M solar systems nails planetary orbits. But it botches gravitational laws 🧵

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Keyon Vafa @keyonv.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · Apr 10

Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they?
One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
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Jann Spiess @jannspiess.bsky.social · Apr 8

Last chance to apply to this year's Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute, our AI/ML summer school for graduate students, co-organized with @sendhil.bsky.social @asheshrambachan.bsky.social @aleximas.bsky.social @lindseyraymond.bsky.social: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen... #econsky

Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute 2025 (MLESI25)

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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · Mar 10

First was #SSAC day 2 w/sessions on basketball analytics (@deepakmalhotra.bsky.social, S Bird, E Wasch, M Zarren, D Morey), NFL front office (L Horton, @scottpioli51.bsky.social, K Demoff, @espnbillc.bsky.social), & AI (@sendhil.bsky.social, @pablo.show, Morey) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG1A... (2/5)

SSAC25: Main Stage: Day 2

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Jan 8

An incredible opportunity for the right person:

The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels

For me, this has been the best possible job ever.

More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...

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SFI seeks applications for full-time, 12-month resident faculty positions at all academic levels.

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Andreas Fuster @fuster.bsky.social · Jan 8

For those who didn't make it to #ASSA2025: strongly recommend @sendhil.bsky.social's AEA distinguished lecture, available at www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202... (starting at minute 16)!

American Economic Association: AEA Excellence Awards and Distinguished Lecture

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Dec 23

Some of my thoughts on OpenAI's o3 and the ARC-AGI benchmark

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Did OpenAI Just Solve Abstract Reasoning?

OpenAI’s o3 model aces the "Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus" — but what does it mean?

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