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Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 7h

GOFFMAN!

Cheng, M., Yu, S., Lee, C., Khadpe, P., Ibrahim, L., & Jurafsky, D. (2025). Social sycophancy: A broader understanding of llm sycophancy. arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.13995.

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 1d

TeachLM asks: what if LLMs acted like tutors, not assistants?
Instead of spoon-feeding answers, tutoring requires friction: withholding, probing, adapting to a learner’s state of mind.

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 2d

How small can a language model be and still tell a coherent story?
Just 2.5M params can spin simple, fluent narratives on par with models 10–100x larger.

Eldan, R., & Li, Y. (2023). Tinystories: How small can language models be and still speak coherent english?. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.07759.

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 3d

We're covering TinyStories in tomorrow's newsletter

Eldan, R., & Li, Y. (2023). Tinystories: How small can language models be and still speak coherent english?. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.07759.

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate.

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Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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

The Information @theinformation.com · 7d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

Taleb's point about local governance is well expressed.

Spicy. Spicy post.

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 13d

What will be the main bottlenecks for growth?

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 15d

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

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 16d

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

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 17d

How might AI shift political power dynamics?

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 20d

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 · 21d

Replacing humans with AI is harder than it seems.

"The algorithm will see you now"

worksinprogress.co/issue/the-al...

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.

worksinprogress.co

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Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 22d

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

arxiv.org/abs/2509.06160

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 23d

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 · 24d

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 · 24d

Thoroughly enjoyed this one. What a banger!

Christopher @gatodohq.bsky.social · 27d

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 · 28d

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.