Mark Whiting
@mark.whiting.me
Pareto.ai & CSS.seas.uPenn.edu → whiting.me
Excited to see our work coming out + @joshnguyen.bsky.social & @duncanjwatts.bsky.social
After establishing a means to study common sense in humans (and finding it rather limited — common sense is not so common) in a prior paper, we wondered if the same challenge faced language models.
It does!
After establishing a means to study common sense in humans (and finding it rather limited — common sense is not so common) in a prior paper, we wondered if the same challenge faced language models.
It does!
Benchmarks of LLM common sense overwhelmingly rely on correct labels to report an accuracy score. But what if your "ground truth" genuinely differs from mine?
In a new @pnasnexus.org paper, @duncanjwatts.bsky.social, @whiting.me and I explore the implications of this intriguing question.
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In a new @pnasnexus.org paper, @duncanjwatts.bsky.social, @whiting.me and I explore the implications of this intriguing question.
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February 17, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Excited to see our work coming out + @joshnguyen.bsky.social & @duncanjwatts.bsky.social
After establishing a means to study common sense in humans (and finding it rather limited — common sense is not so common) in a prior paper, we wondered if the same challenge faced language models.
It does!
After establishing a means to study common sense in humans (and finding it rather limited — common sense is not so common) in a prior paper, we wondered if the same challenge faced language models.
It does!
Reposted by Mark Whiting
What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow?
Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow?
Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)
resonantcomputing.org
Reposted by Mark Whiting
Looking forward to reading this new PNAS paper "A framework for quantifying individual and collective common sense"
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Reminds of something I've always wondered...if there is a quantitative way to think about how Sherlock Holmes patches together his observations
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Reminds of something I've always wondered...if there is a quantitative way to think about how Sherlock Holmes patches together his observations
January 29, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Looking forward to reading this new PNAS paper "A framework for quantifying individual and collective common sense"
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Reminds of something I've always wondered...if there is a quantitative way to think about how Sherlock Holmes patches together his observations
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Reminds of something I've always wondered...if there is a quantitative way to think about how Sherlock Holmes patches together his observations
Reposted by Mark Whiting
Common sense is much more complicated than most people realize. Fascinating new research in PNAS provides the first empirical measure of the concept, showing that it varies considerably across groups, and there is much less collective common sense than most realize: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
January 23, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Common sense is much more complicated than most people realize. Fascinating new research in PNAS provides the first empirical measure of the concept, showing that it varies considerably across groups, and there is much less collective common sense than most realize: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Mark Whiting
How common is commonsense? Turns out that except for statements about physical reality... not that common.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309535121
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309535121
November 16, 2024 at 10:33 AM
How common is commonsense? Turns out that except for statements about physical reality... not that common.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309535121
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309535121