Ben Mathes

@ben_mathes

I solemnly swear it only appears I am up to no good. Internet citizen-soldier. Middling quality professional in Product/Eng/Design/Stats/UI/UX/VC/etc.

San Francisco
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Joined March 2008
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  1. 20 hours ago

    Cannot emphasize enough how much I enjoy these. Learning, walking, getting a sense of place, outdoors, on and on.

    In one of the 17 cities that now have available? We're making a tour in each city free this weekend:
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  2. Retweeted
    Jun 2

    Because the best way to stop a person who's become physically violent is to stand near them and quote feminist theory.

    Two sociologists are horrified that attributes like physical strength are privileged among security personnel
    22 replies 71 retweets 167 likes
  3. Jun 2

    I just watched the convention via snap. What a time to be alive. Also can we confuse everyone and call it ?

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  4. Jun 1

    That's not even a ponzi scheme. In a ponzi scheme you at least pay out fake interest.

    This is the best paragraph you will read all day.
  5. Retweeted
    May 27

    Most PoC are not interested in oppressing people. But the minority that are interested in a race based hierarchy appear to be driving here

    34 replies 63 retweets 414 likes
  6. May 29

    These are great, worth listening to.

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  7. May 28

    The internet hates middlemen. NARRATOR: the Internet created the world's biggest middleman between you and your friends.

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  8. May 28

    Maybe the Mongol secret was ther Khan-do attitude. I regret nothing.

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  9. May 28
    Replying to

    There's a one-tweet version of this that I failed to clarify down to, sorry. /fin

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  10. May 28
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    We may never catch up to the meaning of AIs that probabilistically learn how to show us what we impulsively want. 6/

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  11. May 28
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    At least in our media, AIs are *already* rampant and exploiting our flawed humanity. The president reads InfoWars.

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  12. May 28
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    We already pick up the pieces of AIs that discovered, probabilisticly, how to exploit outrage in us. And this is *early*. 5/

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  13. May 28
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    The more AI-ish and the more important the comms infrastructure becomes, the less we'll know what the meaning of our communications are. 5/

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  14. May 28
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    "AI" (non-deterministic, opaque probability models, eg CNNs RNNs, etc) are harder to understand the meaning of 3/

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  15. May 28
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    We analyze the emergent meaning of deterministic programming far more easily and than nondeterministic. We look at the (complex) rules 2/

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  16. May 28

    We agree "Your friend posted a photo of you on FB" has meaning. Computation outputs these inter-subjectives. 1/

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  17. Retweeted
    Apr 14

    Charlie Munger's analysis of college students is timeless. Better to build good fundamentals now than to painfully undo later.

    3 replies 101 retweets 228 likes
  18. May 26

    Worst part about being good at email is that people respond and you get more email. Only winning move is to not play?

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  19. Retweeted
    May 25
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    I will stop saying obvious things when people stop doing obviously stupid things. In the meantime, feel free to mute.

    1 reply 3 retweets 19 likes
  20. May 25

    As an ally of the high-level goals of social justice, I'm getting pretty fucking tired of the methods.

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