https://xitter.cf/t.co/2tAeNKF8Lc AI researcher - multi-agent RL in complex social environments. @pluralityInst co-founder - human collaboration at scale

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2009
People shouldn't need 15 browser tabs to research their ballot. @OpenBallotApp puts 100+ California voter guides side by side for every prop and local race, so you can see where the ones you trust agree and disagree. Free, nonpartisan, no login. openballot.app
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David (Braginsky) Bloomin retweeted
Make voting less painful with Openballot.app - now live for San Francisco & Oakland! Just in time for the June 2026 special elections. Please share with your communities - we’d love everyone to experience how easy voting should be!
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David (Braginsky) Bloomin retweeted
I helped build Facebook. I watched it become a machine for addicting people. Because addiction was more profitable. Now the same logic is driving AI. I wrote about what we do about it. 🧵
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I continue to run into a the misconception that “agents have goals”, as if having a goal is some property of an agent / object. To me it seems clear that “goal-having” is something we model objects as, as a coarse graining of their behavior. We first hypothesize a goal, and then determine how competent the agent is at achieving that goal. No where is “having a goal” intrinsic to the agent. Of course, there are no intrinsic agents either, that’s another coarse graining we apply to the world.
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Softmax is opening its first remote position, hourly contracting in software engineering. We have a lot of things to build and some of them turn out to be doable as contracting jobs. This is primarily a software engineering position, not research. (link in next tweet)
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|>frontier-friday:activate Friday night: the optimal time to share our favorite papers from the frontiers of learning, intelligence, and alignment in all their manifold forms.
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Excited to announce I've joined Softmax as Chief Architect and Co-Founder. After 3 years researching multi-agent AI & alignment, I'm building something new with @emmettshear and @adamjgoldstein. We're exploring love, kinship, and care via multi-agent simulations. join us!
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As you might have guessed from following my posts here, I've been thinking and working on questions around alignment and learning and agency for a while, particularly for digital systems. Excited to share the work we're doing at Softmax publicly in the future!
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Voting in SF? 😳 We put allllll the voter guides in one place 📲 Get openballot.app & get your ballot done ✅
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We're thrilled to open sign-ups for OpenBallot in time for the November San Francisco election! See 40+ voter guides in one place, and use our tool to fill out your ballot. You can keep it private or share with friends: openballot.app/guides
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Today we are launching @OpenBallotApp . It's an app that helps you vote smarter, with less effort. You can follow all your favorite voter guides and even share your own. We’re starting in SF this election cycle, so if you live in the city please check it out!!
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For the past few month, I've been helping build and launch OpenBallot - a voter guide platform. OpenBallot will save you research time by showing you all the endorsements and explanations you care about in one place, and share your own. openballot.super.site/
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We're currently targeting San Francisco, but plan to expand to other cities soon. Reach out if you'd like early access, or to help.
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Do you read or make voter guides? OpenBallot will save you research time by showing you all the endorsements and explanations you care about in one place. We’ll import the guides for you! Currently focusing on San Francisco. Which guides and whose endorsements do you want to see?
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