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Ben Rechtarg min: a blog of minimum value. on the history, foundations, and validity of "optimally" automated decision making.
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Runbooks for Microconferences
Thanks to everyone for the constructive feedback on Monday’s microconferences post. I wanted to take a beat to engage with two salient themes in the replies: runbooks and homophily. I’ll start with runbooks today, and tackle homophily next...
From legibility to participation
Part of the reason I brought up microconferences on Monday is that I was attending a great one this week on public feedback for AI, organized by Jessica Dai here at Berkeley. In the spirit of creating an archival footprint, Jess and I will...
Microconferences
I ended my last post with a call for action. I stated, without evidence, that if we’re unhappy with the status quo, we can choose to do something else. I’m hoping this semester I can instead lead by doing (sorry that’s corny) and be a weird...
The Least Agentic People Alive
I’ve started and stopped four posts this week and couldn’t figure out why I was stuck. Finally this morning, in a delightful retelling of an Alan Moore comic, Henry Farrell struck the nail in my head.
Henry describes Moore’s society where...
Open and Shut
I hope the intent of my call on Monday was clear: we should strive for something that any team can build from scratch as long as they have access to the training corpus, the software, and computing resources. We want something open to the p...
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Ben is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
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