Sasha Rush Mocks the System 2 Meme, Then Self-Roasts Over OpenAI's Reasoning Models

NLP researcher Sasha Rush joked that people who have only read Thinking, Fast and Slow love calling their models System 2, then self-deprecatingly noted that OpenAI's reasoning model team apparently did exactly that.

2026-09-16 ~ 2026-09-16 · 2 related posts

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