ManiSkill winner defends the work amid LinkedIn-slop paper hype feud

yeokch · x · 2026-10-20

• Responding to Kyle Morgenstein's "stop the LinkedIn slop paper hype" call, ManiSkill/NIST competition winner @yeokch clarifies he isn't attacking the work itself
• He calls the approach "insane" and quips: "who writes a simulator to solve a policy problem"
• The feud centers on mjfit's convex-decomposition approach for MuJoCo versus the AI-flavored hype prose around it

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