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Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 7h

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate.

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 3d

Meincke, L., Shapiro, D., Duckworth, A., Mollick, E. R., Mollick, L., & Cialdini, R. (2025). Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests.

Incredible that this works as well as it does!

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 3d

Seems odd that they'd go closed... curious.

The Information @theinformation.com · 3d

Unlike many existing agent orchestration tools that allow model swapping, OpenAI's Agent Builder only permits the use of OpenAI's own models, making it harder for customers to swap in cheaper or open-source alternatives. Read: https://thein.fo/4ocKkbm

OpenAI Makes it Easier to Build Agents—and Harder to Switch Models

Over the past year, companies have been tinkering with generative artificial intelligence to create customized agents that automate complex tasks, but they’ve gotten mixed results. Now, OpenAI is push...

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Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 4d

Hummel, J. E., & Heaton, R. F. (2025). From Basic Affordances to Symbolic Thought: A Computational Phylogenesis of Biological Intelligence. arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.15082.

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 5d

Taleb's point about local governance is well expressed.

Spicy. Spicy post.

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 6d

In tomorrow's newsletter. This Recht guy has a lot of good ideas. Almost James March-y in the clarity. I'm enjoying him a lot. Maybe too much.

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 9d

What will be the main bottlenecks for growth?

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 10d

Great paper.

The power concentration question is a fantastic one. Those with it tend to justify it on the basis their judgement on allocating resources is superior to others. And...well, I'm wondering what you think of their self-assessment?

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 11d

Seriously appreciating the approach the QWEN team took to safety. Solid.

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 12d

In this week's newsletter: Do markets believe in transformative AI, research agenda for TAI, behaviors, the sims, Qwen3Guard

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 13d

How might AI shift political power dynamics?

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 16d

Time for another re-org. What does the lit say about that?

Joseph, J., & Sengul, M. (2025). Organization design: Current insights and future research directions. Journal of Management, 51(1), 249-308.

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 17d

Replacing humans with AI is harder than it seems.

"The algorithm will see you now"

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The algorithm will see you now - Works in Progress Magazine

Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But replacing humans with AI is harder than it seems.

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Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 17d

Is there broad awareness of data quality issues that holding back AI integration initiatives? Or is there just broad based denial?

Anomalous, right?

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 17d

PSI is in the right direction.

Kotar, K., Lee, W., Venkatesh, R., Chen, H., Bear, D., Watrous, J., ... & Yamins, D. (2025). World Modeling with Probabilistic Structure Integration. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.09737.

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 18d

Anything that resembles backcasting is going to be at least good. This, however, is great.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.06160

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 19d

LLM's are just like us!

Abdelsalam, Y., Peitek, N., Maurer, A. M., Toneva, M., & Apel, S. (2025). How do Humans and LLMs Process Confusing Code?. arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.18547.

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 20d

In tomorrows newsletter we'll cover:

Joseph, J., & Sengul, M. (2025). Organization design: Current insights and future research directions. Journal of Management, 51(1), 249-308.

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 20d

Thoroughly enjoyed this one. What a banger!

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 23d

If it's a bubble, it's a bubble. Great!

Focus on value?

That's boring too?

Back to being excited and stoked I suppose?

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 24d

Wisdom here:

Frey, S., Zhong, Q., Bulat, B., Weisman, W. D., Liu, C., Fujimoto, S., ... & Schweik, C. M. (2022). Governing online goods: Maturity and formalization in Minecraft, Reddit, and World of Warcraft communities. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW2), 1-23.

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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 26d

Our featured article: Predicting gene expression from DNA sequence using deep learning models go.nature.com/3VXGCG9

Predicting gene expression from DNA sequence using deep learning models - Nature Reviews Genetics

Barbadilla-Martínez et al. review recent progress in deep-learning-based sequence-to-expression models, which predict gene expression levels solely from DNA sequence. These models are providing new in...

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 28d

This point by @earlkmiller.bsky.social is very much obvious from a mainstream deep learning perspective. Why would neurons specialize?

Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 29d

Talk: Cognition is Emergent - Earl K. Miller
Neuroscience and Philosophy Salon, 9-12-25
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"Cognition is emergent" by Earl Miller

YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 25d

Alibaba launched Tongyi DeepResearch, the open-source web agent to achieve similar performance as OpenAI's Deep Research with only 30B (Activated 3B) parameters!

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Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 25d

So cool that they did this.