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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 · 2h

Wikipedia's explanation that it didn't catch on until then because of gender checks out for me

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 2h

Apparently 1972?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcas...

THE HISTORY OF ROLLING LUGGAGE

How Today’s Wheeled Suitcase Was InventedWe toss our carry-on luggage into the storage space above our seats when boarding an aircraft without ever thinking about its strategic design that makes trave...

travelpro.com

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 2h

a classic and it's a real issue!

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah I aged myself there

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 2h

LUGGAGE DIDN'T HAVE WHEELS?!

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 2h

I felt like it did! They ruled out medical advances but huge advances in food quality / availability and wider availability of flying. I agree with the loss of a slower pace but I suspect we'll find our way back to it over time

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 7h

Lot of people should read this exhaustive list of life improvements from the 90s: gwern.net/improvement

My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

gwern.net

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah they are, sadly

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah as a “finding science” mechanism it does okay and maybe that’s enough, it doesn’t have to be the “boosting science” mechanism

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 11h

This specific one would have helped a lot. In controls in undergrad I was continually confused by the emphasis on laplace transforms with no professor ever making explicit why they mattered

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 11h

People stay on twitter because they still correctly understand that it makes their work more visible

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 11h

One strategic thing about making this an appealing scientific community is to overshare and boost work from graduate students here

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Karim Farid @kifarid.bsky.social · 13h

Our work Orbis goes to #NeurIPS2025!

A continuous autoregressive driving world model that outperforms Cosmos, Vista, and GEM with far less compute.

469M parameters
Trained on ~280h of driving videos

📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13162
🎬 lmb-freiburg.github.io/orbis.github...
💻 github.com/lmb-freiburg...

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1d

A Moomin film created by Rebecca Sugar? We do live in the best of all worlds

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah this is my biggest “AGI hype is not real” is that almost no one at these companies behaves like it’s real

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1d

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

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Unconstrained argh

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1d

never watched Chappie and therefore constrained but its lessons

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah agreed

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1d

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

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly I agree

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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 5d

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.

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