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Ben Thomas

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Events @rootsofprogress | but my views | economics, housing, technology, progress, bible | personal tinkering & writing at benthomas.xyz
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    Ben Thomas
    @Ben_Thomas_o7
    Oct 18, 2025
    My Progress Conference take: this is the "you can just do things *well*" crowd. (The progress studies et al community) Not just "you can just do things", but actually you can do things with taste, craft, and thoughtfulness. Regulation could make sense. Housing and energy
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    Ben Thomas
    @Ben_Thomas_o7
    Aug 17
    I feel quite lucky that I'll get so much *time* back to spend with my kids, compared to my parents & grandparents, thanks to co's like Zipline. Saturday pancakes but short half the ingredients? Movie night but HDMI cord missing? New craft idea? I don't mourn errands.
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    Zipline
    @zipline
    Aug 17
    What if your dinner flew over traffic instead of sitting in it? Today, we're partnering with @Uber to bring 1 million drone deliveries per day to America
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    Ben Thomas
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    Jul 19
    "LLMs should give accurate answers" -- LLMs are fancy Plinko. Why *should* LLMs be accurate? Of course different prompts give different answers! It's a wonderful emergent property that these answers are often useful and right. To be clear Owain is doing excellent & important
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    Owain Evans
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    Jul 17
    New paper: LLMs should give accurate answers. 
Yet we find their answers are often biased to favor their own values and they don’t disclose this in their reasoning. 
E.g. Claude’s answer below favors Anthropic. On other tasks, Gemini & GPT-5.5 show similar biases.
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