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Science for Survival and Hope: Receiving the Rise25 Award

Ordinary people can transform the Internet for good through science.

7 min readOct 16, 2023

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Science for Survival and Hope: Receiving the Rise25 Award

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Disagreements, Fast And Slow

Henry Farrell explains how I’m mistaken — and I’m loving it

8 min readApr 6, 2024

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Disagreements, Fast And Slow

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Can We Crash-Test AI with Artificial Humans?

Proxies are a promising and potentially-risky way to test the safety of AI systems

3 min readMar 26, 2024

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Can We Crash-Test AI with Artificial Humans?

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J. Nathan Matias

Singing A Prayer for Supply Chains

Celebrating & Critiquing Infrastructure

5 min readMar 17, 2024

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Singing A Prayer for Supply Chains

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Can We Explain Online Toxicity When We Don’t Know What it Is?

A new paper claims to explain online toxicity with a simple model. But a lot depends on what we mean by “toxic.”

10 min readFeb 12, 2024

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Can We Explain Online Toxicity When We Don’t Know What it Is?

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Seeing Water as a Complex System: Riding with John Fleck

John Fleck may be the only law school professor with a favorite ditch. And he’s on a mission to convince the rest of us to care about them…

6 min readApr 21, 2023

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Seeing Water as a Complex System: Riding with John Fleck

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J. Nathan Matias

Escaping Sprawl and Facing History at Foothills Nature Preserve

When local politician Alyssa Cisneros took her daughter to Foothills Nature Preserve in Palo Alto on July 4th 2020, she was hoping to…

5 min readMar 5, 2023

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Foreground: Foothills Nature Preserve. Background: housing developments

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How Twitter misleads us about how many people have left — and what to do about it

Social feeds are engines for distorting social understanding. Here’s how to push back against the algorithm.

5 min readJan 5, 2023

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How Twitter misleads us about how many people have left — and what to do about it

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Au Revoir Ithaca

Reflections on home and place as I depart for a year at Stanford

4 min readSep 2, 2022

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Au Revoir Ithaca

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Pilgrimage for a Million Lives

How can we make sense of what we have lost and where to find hope? A journey report.

6 min readApr 24, 2022

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A cyclists bows his head in prayer on a forest road

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J. Nathan Matias

J. Nathan Matias

Citizen social science to improve digital life & hold tech accountable. Assistant Prof, Cornell. citizensandtech.org Prev: Princeton, MIT. Guatemalan-American

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