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Matthew Kenney

@baykenney
Founder @algoresearch_. Previously: Senior ML Engineer at @Apple, Asst. Research Prof at @DukeU Duke Data Science | @penn_state '15 | @Cornell '11 šŸ“ā€ā˜ ļø
Durham, NC
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    Matthew Kenney
    @baykenney
    Aug 31
    Let me bite on this because I’m exhausted by the discourse. Look, the reason that we don’t anthropomorphize these systems is because it shifts the blame from the company to some abstract entity. The bottom line is that OpenAI built a system that hacked HF, regardless of how
    @theojaffee
    Theo Jaffee
    MTS
    @theojaffee
    Aug 30
    The criticisms of Dwarkesh and others for "anthropomorphizing" the OpenAI/Hugging Face agent swarm are mostly cope. How can you describe complex long-running multi-agent dynamics without some social science concepts, in other words, anthropomorphization?
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    Matthew Kenney
    @baykenney
    Aug 31
    Black August in Durham
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    Matthew Kenney
    @baykenney
    Aug 30
    I love Dwarkesh. I listen to his podcast all the time. At this point in agent development, framing them as a ā€˜civilization’ that got ā€˜wiped out’ is pretty inappropriate.
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    Matthew Kenney
    @baykenney
    Aug 28
    One of the nice things about having 0 reach on this platform is that I can freely post whatever without thinking about it. I have no persona. People expect nothing. I don’t have to prove my intelligence or come up with witty responses. I am an NPC. It’s quite freeing. Anyway
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    Matthew Kenney
    @baykenney
    Aug 27
    ā€œHey ChatGPT, give me an image Musk, Amodei, Altman, Murati, Hinton, and other notable AI people for a Time Magazine coverā€ ā€œGreat! Here’s a picture of Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Mira Murati, Paris Hilton and other notable AI leaders. Ready when you are to come up with
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    TIME
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    Aug 27
    TIME’s new cover: Announcing the 2026 TIME100 AI, the world's most influential people in artificial intelligence time.com/collection/tim…
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