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Should Prophets Speak Like Prophets?
Maybe not, if they want to change things instead of getting famous.
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Ben Mathes

March 2024

Finishing Schools, Generative AI, and how Ethics is not a solvable problem.
What do images of black nazis, dark-skinned popes, cybernetics, and the culture war have in common? Relative complexity.
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Ben Mathes

December 2023

Smuggled Infinities
Pascal's Sucker Bet, and when to ignore it.
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Ben Mathes

November 2023

AI Futures and Cycles of Discord
(varied<->all the same) crossed with (great leveler<->great inequality)
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Simplifications Never Stay Simple forever
A generalization of the Law of Leaky Abstractions
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Ben Mathes

September 2023

A Lens on What Google is (and is not) Good At
There’s a long essay I wrote internally at google that cites things I can’t share publicly. Here’s a heavily redacted summary:
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July 2023

Why "I got rich and it didn't make me happy" feels weird
or: a practical lesson in contrapositive proof
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Ben Mathes

May 2023

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Slack
Almost everyone underrates it
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Micro Burnouts
Kasey Klimes of rhizome r&d describes burnout well: Everyone talks about "burnout" as something that happens when you work too much.
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MAUs Considered Harmful
Think for yourself if you don't run an attention business.
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Ben Mathes

April 2023

Stochastic Thinkpiece Parrots in Risky Domains
99% of what you read isn't relevant. Please disregard social media marketing managers that somehow got a fund.
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Should I Start an Generative AI Company?
Probably not (yet?)
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