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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒

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Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU https://emerge-lab.github.io https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3h

Okay yeah those are plausible mechanisms and give me something to learn more about. Thanks for the explanation!

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 4h

I understand why we need this to get coverage increases, agreed, but I don’t understand how that reins in health care costs except through salaries. I guess through service charges? Genuine expression of ignorance here

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 4h

Is this really true? Doctor salaries are roughly 10% of overall health care costs. I agree that we probably implicitly need to cut doctor salaries to get more doctors but that’s different

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5h

Unconstrained argh

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5h

never watched Chappie and therefore constrained but its lessons

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah agreed

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5h

Is it any comfort if I say we probably get them round the same time

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5h

Sadly I agree

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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 22h

Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory + applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis.

Today I want to share two new works on this topic:

Eliciting higher alignment: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02425
Unpaired learning of unified reps: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 22h

Someone asked what kind of transhumanist I am (since you gotta be one) on twitter so I'm going to port my response ↓

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think you should be involved in AI if you don't prefer humans to other minds, and if society was paying attention and had the tools to they wouldn't let you be.