Ben Labaschin
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Ben Labaschin
@econoben.dev
Machine learning, economics, Chicago -> San Diego

Principal MLE, Workhelix
Woah.
October 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Trump explicitly states he set Santos free because he votes Republican.
BREAKING: Trump commutes sentence of disgraced former congressman George Santos.

“I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, have a great life!”
October 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Tag yourself I’m outlier
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Register:
home.mlops.community/public/event...

If you missed the first one, check out What Are AI Agents: learning.oreilly.com/library/view...
home.mlops.community
July 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Reposted by Ben Labaschin
Now, imagine a simple model in which activists opt to engage in nonviolent or violent resistance and then the state responds with typical or excess force. (To be clear, the world is more complicated, but these simplifying assumptions help us describe some common patterns.) 3/
February 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Thanks to @danielrock.bsky.social , Tyna Eloundou, Sam Manning, and Pamela Mishkin!
June 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I also wrote a quick write-up on where this research may lead us and the implications for labor inequalities here: econoben.dev/posts/extend...
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lnkd.in
June 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
An interesting finding: big gaps between our exposure measures and what companies report for adoption, suggesting much AI use is happening organically at the worker level.
June 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We took occupation-level AI exposure data and mapped it to the actual workforce composition of ~8,000 publicly traded companies. We found the average firm has about 17% of tasks exposed to LLMs alone, jumping to 47% when you factor in partial integration with tools like Copilot.
June 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If we haven't heard from JD in a month, we can safely assume he's somewhere in the Marshall Islands doing something cursed with monte carlo simulations and de-anonymized data.
May 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Oh damn. I don’t know why I didn’t consider that…

Well, at least there’s a Taco Stand nearby. Get a burrito.
April 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Didn’t realize my man’s in SD.

Jury would be lucky to have you. I just got passed over for my recent selection bid.
April 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If people start a sentence with “Bill Ackman says…” to justify something ever again I’ll just share this tweet.
April 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Have you done awful shit to English? And, if so, why not do so more often? 😏
April 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Vic. Vic! Would you say it was gone in a SNAP. 😭 Vic, would you say that???
a close up of thanos ' face in avengers infinity war .
ALT: a close up of thanos ' face in avengers infinity war .
media.tenor.com
January 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM