Ben J
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Ben J
@benjneb
ai deployment @ braze | prev. philosophy + cs @uoft
Chicago Katılım Temmuz 2025
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Vibe coded a robot lawn mower zen garden. 🧘
- physics (mower is actually driving with friction on its wheels)
- grass is growing (and affected by the mower and wind)
- battery is draining
- fence wiring is fully simulated
A few more details 👇
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This is no joke
Everyone (ineffable, recursive, prometheus, cusp, periodic) is 5 mins away from dishoom
Recursive@Recursive_SI
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@sama Better taste on UI. It is great for coding but the views are still a problem.
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LITERALLY ALL I WANT IS A CHATBOT FOR TRAVEL
"FIND ME THE BEST HOTEL AND BOOK IT"
TBPN@tbpn
"I do not think a chatbot is the right interface for travel or e-commerce." - @bchesky "I think the future is not apps. The future is agents, but I don't think they're going to be text-forward. I think they're going to be really rich user interfaces." "Imagine using iMessage to do everything, when in fact every other app has a unique interface." "With e-commerce, you want a very rich user interface. It would be agentic. You can have a conversation with it, but the point is that it has to be more visual."
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@AStrasser116 I wonder if it’s because we’ll lose the essence of time. There’s no sun dictating when the day ends, no death to signal life ending. So we don’t feel constrained to do more.
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I still don't find boredom-style objections to immortality convincing. There will likely be an infinite number of things to discover about an infinite God, an infinite number of people, an infinite number of fields of study, infinite games, and so on. Infinite variety!
Alex Strasser@AStrasser116
"Heaven won't be an eternally long Church service; that would be as insufferable as hell." - Trent Horn
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I’ve watched 100s of theists and atheists verbally fight each other. Much of it would be resolved if people understood this concept.
This genuinely applies to every form of communication in my opinion.
Richard of the secular realm@LatFilosof
Aight, had to get my thoughts out. It's not very exhaustive, but it should be fine for now. Link: rickardkarlsson.substack.com/p/who-made-god…
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@LatFilosof Wow Richard, this was an excellent read. It actually encompasses a lot about how arguments are constructed and refuted.
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Aight, had to get my thoughts out. It's not very exhaustive, but it should be fine for now.
Link: rickardkarlsson.substack.com/p/who-made-god…
Richard of the secular realm@LatFilosof
Unpopular opinion, but this is actually a good question. It is of course an atrocious argument if you understand what is meant by ”God”, but for someone not well versed in the metaphysics of Aristotle and Aquinas, it’s actually not something unreasonable to say.
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@DBredvick great idea! we don’t have enough pieces around deploying AI.
when we started this a few years ago we heavily bridged the gap via AI learning academies. if actually made the sales motion significantly better
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what are your favorite double majors
TBPN@tbpn
.@Collision is bullish on two types of people: high-agency individuals and double majors. "There are two categories of people I would be super bullish on right now and I think will do incredibly well over the next 10-20 years. First, high-agency people. The people at Stripe who have been talking to customers and know exactly what we should do. It's the people who have that pep in their step and want to go make Stripe better. They are so much more empowered thanks to AI." "The second is double majors. I think if you understand software and understand finance, or if you understand software and understand marketing, you now can go massively improve the entire marketing funnel for your company. Now, one person can do what would have taken 20 people dredging through all these systems." "Charlie Munger talked about the importance of being multidisciplinary and multidisciplinary thinking. He thinks getting a functional understanding of many disciplines is not that hard. You can just go read the books now or you can talk to your AI about it. I think multidisciplinary thinkers are going to do incredibly well."
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@danshipper absolutely — I’m working on a similar concept but the biggest problem to solve is tuning the agents intervention. Maybe we can learn something from how pair programming is done today
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clear that this is how we'll be doing most of our work for the next 10 years:
agent running continuously on the left, application that you + the agent use on the right
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@gauri__gupta not sure about the level of automation u r looking for - but cc w/ mcp {slack, email, clickup, cal, etc.} does the job pretty well
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what is the best personal ai assistant setup that someone has done, that actually works? like takes all context across, slack, different email accounts, calendar etc and gets work done e2e.
please comment your setup, would love to try!
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im writing an essay in proof using codex's in-app browser.
i type directly in the document, and codex loops in parallel on the left, collaborating with me in realtime.
this is obviously the future:
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Got a room in Pilsen for an upcoming conference in Chicago, figuring it would be a straight shot to the downtown convention center.
Serves my dumb ass right.
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I'm pretty fond of reading philosophy at Starbucks.
Jack Hanson@j_ckh_ns_n
Anything to do in Montreal?
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