A short read on the topic's time range, peak episode, and strongest associations. Use it as the quick orientation before drilling into examples.
ben mathe appears in 6 chunks across 6 episodes, from 2024-02-20 to 2025-11-04.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 2/20/24 (2024-02-20), with 1 observation on this topic.
Semantically it travels with training data, lowest common, and excellent piece, while by chunk count it sits between anthropic artifact and boundary gradient; its yearly rank moved from #156 in 2024 to #173 in 2025.
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Range2024-02-20 to 2025-11-04Mean1.0 per episodePeak1 on 2024-02-20
Observations
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Showing 6 observations sorted from latest to earliest.
Excellent piece from Ben Mathes on Goodhart's Law and "Lowest Common Consensus".
Why organizations tend to focus on a simple, obvious metric, and then over-focus on it.
It's simply...
Ben Mathes distilling Babak Nivi:
"The meaning and soul went into the training data, and it's in us as we read the text.
It's not in the LLM anywhere.
But we c...
I loved this piece on the Legible Frontier by my friend Ben Mathes.
On one side are the things that are legible, routinized.
On the other side are things that are illegible, chaotic… but also the wellspring of innov...
A thought-provoking old Twitter thread from my friend Ben Mathes. (A lightly edited version of the thread follows)
"2 key ingredients behind every good situation I've ever been in: Shared Fate and Slack.
Shared Fa...