Nikhil Krishnaswamy
@nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Computer Science, Colorado State University. I hate technology. https://www.nikhilkrishnaswamy.com/ #AI #NLProc
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At @neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2025 in San Diego this week? Come watch us rant in front of an enormous poster Thursday 12/4 from 11-2 PST, station #2010
Poster link: tinyurl.com/bxcdrwpd
#AI #LLMs #NLP
Poster link: tinyurl.com/bxcdrwpd
#AI #LLMs #NLP
The 4yo (for context, in her Disney Princess era) is watching the Winter Olympics. Does it inspire her to do figure skating? No, more like the luge, the skeleton, and ski jumping ⛷️ 💀
February 14, 2026 at 7:18 PM
The 4yo (for context, in her Disney Princess era) is watching the Winter Olympics. Does it inspire her to do figure skating? No, more like the luge, the skeleton, and ski jumping ⛷️ 💀
Unsaid here: how many technical researchers and academics are being fundamentally chickenshit about this because they (we) fear losing access to data and/or models.
Both "very much worth reading in full," new policy pieces by @alondra.bsky.social and D&S’s @brianjchen.bsky.social "paint a compelling portrait of how the federal government under Trump is working to grow its power with AI," says @bcmerchant.bsky.social . www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/what-trump...
What Trump really wants with AI
Trump's AI agenda is often described as a push for deregulation; an effort to cut red tape so AI companies can innovate. In truth, it's a big government project with designs toward domination.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Unsaid here: how many technical researchers and academics are being fundamentally chickenshit about this because they (we) fear losing access to data and/or models.
I can't be the only one wondering by @realblucifer.bsky.social is suddenly posting in Ge'ez
ይውጡ ጃርት ስቲድሃም እና የአንተ ትክክል የሆነ ጠይቀህ ለድል ተዘጋጅተሃል ይውጡ ጃርት ስቲ እና የአንተ ትክክል የሆነውን ጠይቀህ ለድል ተዘጋጅተሃል ይውጡ ጃርት ስቲድሃም እና የአንተ ትክክል የሆነውን ጠይቀህ ለድል ተዘጋጅተሃል ይውጡ ጃ ስቲድሃም እና የአ ትክክል የሆነውን ጠይቀህ ለድል ተዘጋጅተሃል ይውጡ ጃርት ስቲድሃም እና የአንተ ትክክል የሆነውን ጠይቀህ ለተዘጋጅተሃል ይውጡ ጃርት ስቲድሃም እና የአንተ ትክክል የሆነውን ጠይቀህ ለድል ተዘጋጅተሃል
January 23, 2026 at 12:06 AM
I can't be the only one wondering by @realblucifer.bsky.social is suddenly posting in Ge'ez
The most annoying thing about Peppa Pig is how it tries to convince you that the English can possibly be good people
January 17, 2026 at 12:02 AM
The most annoying thing about Peppa Pig is how it tries to convince you that the English can possibly be good people
Am I a bad person for telling the 4yo she can't play with her Paw Patrol toy because it's stuck in traffic?
January 10, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Am I a bad person for telling the 4yo she can't play with her Paw Patrol toy because it's stuck in traffic?
Reposted by Nikhil Krishnaswamy
New story by me in @quantamagazine.bsky.social unpacking the provocatively named "Platonic representation hypothesis." In what sense, and to what degree, are different AI models are growing more similar?
Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality | Quanta Magazine
Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they may be converging toward a singular “Platonic” way to represent the world.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
New story by me in @quantamagazine.bsky.social unpacking the provocatively named "Platonic representation hypothesis." In what sense, and to what degree, are different AI models are growing more similar?
In mid-2019 in Copenhagen I met a Ukrainian immigrant to Denmark who was weirdly pro-Trump. Really wonder what she's thinking now.
January 7, 2026 at 9:27 PM
In mid-2019 in Copenhagen I met a Ukrainian immigrant to Denmark who was weirdly pro-Trump. Really wonder what she's thinking now.
Reposted by Nikhil Krishnaswamy
As tech companies try to sell us on the idea that life itself is an inconvenience, "an orientation toward friction is really the only defense we have against the life-annihilating suction of technologies of escape," @kjezermorton.bsky.social writes. www.thecut.com/article/broo...
In 2026, We Are Friction-Maxxing
In the face of technologies that sell us escapism at every turn, we need to build up tolerance for “inconvenience.”
www.thecut.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:05 PM
As tech companies try to sell us on the idea that life itself is an inconvenience, "an orientation toward friction is really the only defense we have against the life-annihilating suction of technologies of escape," @kjezermorton.bsky.social writes. www.thecut.com/article/broo...
Very cool that it is now 2003 and I can be 16 again instead of 39
January 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Very cool that it is now 2003 and I can be 16 again instead of 39
Who is the target audience for the cartoon Progressive Insurance commercials on Disney Jr+?
December 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Who is the target audience for the cartoon Progressive Insurance commercials on Disney Jr+?
The 4yo is doing a good job asking for consent before touching. Unfortunately her way of asking is uniformly "can I touch your body?"
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The 4yo is doing a good job asking for consent before touching. Unfortunately her way of asking is uniformly "can I touch your body?"
Had a great time at #NeurIPS2025 but if it's okay now I'd like to not hear about #AI for at least six weeks
Excited 2 learn about A1 technology #NeurIPS2025
December 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Had a great time at #NeurIPS2025 but if it's okay now I'd like to not hear about #AI for at least six weeks
Excited 2 learn about A1 technology #NeurIPS2025
December 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Excited 2 learn about A1 technology #NeurIPS2025
Today I learned of the existence of the journal Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems.
Read the acronym and then wonder WTF they were thinking.
Read the acronym and then wonder WTF they were thinking.
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Today I learned of the existence of the journal Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems.
Read the acronym and then wonder WTF they were thinking.
Read the acronym and then wonder WTF they were thinking.
At @neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2025 in San Diego this week? Come watch us rant in front of an enormous poster Thursday 12/4 from 11-2 PST, station #2010
Poster link: tinyurl.com/bxcdrwpd
#AI #LLMs #NLP
Poster link: tinyurl.com/bxcdrwpd
#AI #LLMs #NLP
December 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
At @neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2025 in San Diego this week? Come watch us rant in front of an enormous poster Thursday 12/4 from 11-2 PST, station #2010
Poster link: tinyurl.com/bxcdrwpd
#AI #LLMs #NLP
Poster link: tinyurl.com/bxcdrwpd
#AI #LLMs #NLP
Reposted by Nikhil Krishnaswamy
“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
You know how you watch a video and you can sort of smell it and the smell is so bad you kind of taste it in the back of your mouth?
Further, #LLMs must be destroyed
Further, #LLMs must be destroyed
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
You know how you watch a video and you can sort of smell it and the smell is so bad you kind of taste it in the back of your mouth?
Further, #LLMs must be destroyed
Further, #LLMs must be destroyed
I'll be the first to criticize our society's overinvestment in massive piles of linear algebra but this is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever read
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I'll be the first to criticize our society's overinvestment in massive piles of linear algebra but this is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever read
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Happy to have our paper "Learning 'Partner-Aware' Collaborators in Multi-Party Collaborations" appearing at #NeurIPS2025 this year! #LLMs are bad collaborators but having them generate and train over counterfactual scenarios can make them better #NLP #AI
Learning "Partner-Aware" Collaborators in Multi-Party Collaboration
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly bring deployed in agentic settings where they act as collaborators with humans. Therefore, it is increasingly important to be able to evaluate their abili...
arxiv.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Happy to have our paper "Learning 'Partner-Aware' Collaborators in Multi-Party Collaborations" appearing at #NeurIPS2025 this year! #LLMs are bad collaborators but having them generate and train over counterfactual scenarios can make them better #NLP #AI
A Hawaiian/Jamaican/Japanese fusion place called Poké, Mon
October 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A Hawaiian/Jamaican/Japanese fusion place called Poké, Mon
And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who helped make the first ORIGen workshop a success! @andreasvlachos.bsky.social @malihealikhani.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social #COLM2025 #AI #NLP #LLMs
October 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who helped make the first ORIGen workshop a success! @andreasvlachos.bsky.social @malihealikhani.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social #COLM2025 #AI #NLP #LLMs
The dilemma of French Canada is whether I can get away with putting on my "I'm not American" accent
October 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The dilemma of French Canada is whether I can get away with putting on my "I'm not American" accent
