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Benjamin Manning

@bensmanning

PhD student @MIT | Behavioral Economics & AI Agents | Techno-optimistic-ish

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Expected Parrot: Open-source AI-powered research (@expectedparrot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Coop is our new app for creating & sharing LLM-based research. Easily post, edit & replicate surveys, agents, results & notebooks from your workspace or your Coop account:

Coop is our new app for creating & sharing LLM-based research. Easily post, edit & replicate surveys, agents, results & notebooks from your workspace or your Coop account:
Benjamin Manning (@bensmanning) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Never has a book, nor even an entire course, improved my intuition about all things ML. Every page left me a better understanding of topics I've spent years studying. Maybe this reflects bad courses or my low IQ, but I think the book is just that good. Must read.

Anil Ananthaswamy (@anilananth) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ben, those are very generous words, especially from someone who already knows a lot about the math of ML (more than I'll ever know)! Thank you. Means a whole bunch.

Benjamin Manning (@bensmanning) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Why does every CS paper I read about LLM agents/applications have a playful acronym or nickname in the title? To name a few.... aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-maiโ€ฆ arxiv.org/abs/2402.09552 arxiv.org/abs/2402.18225 arxiv.org/abs/2305.14259

Andrey Fradkin (@andreyfradkin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to announce a new paper on dark patterns and competition online! Youโ€™ve seen cookie banners all over the internet, some with dark patterns that make it hard to reject cookies. We conducted a field experiment about these banners to study how people choose to share their

Excited to announce a new paper on dark patterns and competition online! Youโ€™ve seen cookie banners all over the internet, some with dark patterns that make it hard to reject cookies.

We conducted a field experiment about these banners to study how people choose to share their
Avinash (Avi) Collis (@avi_collis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our new working paper where we analyze a decade long experiment on Facebook where 0.5% of users never see ads: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfโ€ฆ

Jimmy Koppel (@jimmykoppel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Everyone's talking about Sakana's AI scientist. But no-one's answering the big question: is its output good? I spent hours reading its generated papers and research logs. Read on to find out x.com/SakanaAILabs/sโ€ฆ

Benjamin Manning (@bensmanning) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If I open the communal fridge at the office to these bad boys, do I have to get one knee, or can I slowly close the fridge and walk away..... please advise ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…

If I open the communal fridge at the office to these bad boys, do I have to get one knee, or can I slowly close the fridge and walk away..... please advise ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…
Liz Cheney (@liz_cheney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Letโ€™s be clear: This is illegal and unconstitutional. The American people had voted. The courts had ruled. The Electoral College had met and voted. The Governor in every state had certified the results and sent a legal slate of electors to the Congress to be counted. The Vice

Dan Elton (@moreisdifferent) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING! @FrancescaGino's ridiculous defamation lawsuit against Data Colada from last year has been dismissed by the court! This is an important victory.. if this had been allowed to move forward it would have had a chilling effect on whistleblowers! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscoโ€ฆ

BREAKING!

@FrancescaGino's ridiculous defamation lawsuit against  <a href="/DataColada/">Data Colada</a> from last year has been dismissed by the court!

This is an important victory.. if this had been allowed to move forward it would have had a chilling effect on whistleblowers!
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscoโ€ฆ
Susan Athey (@susan_athey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Considering a graduate degree but need more experience first? Come work with me on socially impactful, frontier research at Stanford!