srush clown-moments himself: the 'System 2' joke was literally how OpenAI built thinking models

srush_nlp · x · 2026-09-16

Sasha Rush quipped about people who read Thinking, Fast and Slow once and mutter 'getting System 2 vibes' while training models — then added a self-deprecating follow-up: someone pointed out the OpenAI team that invented thinking models essentially did exactly that. A fun anecdote about how the 'System 2' metaphor went from cognitive-science meme to real research direction.

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