Ben persuades Vaden that all prisoners should be let loose. Vaden convinces Ben that he shouldn’t use the word “vista” so regularly. At least they stay on topic this time. References: <ul><li><a href='http://criticalresistance.org/about/not-so-common-language/'>What is the PIC? What is Abolition?</a>, Critical Resistance. </li><li><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html'>Is Prison Necessary?</a> NY Times piece covering Ruth Wilson Gilmore. </li><li><a href='https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/what-is-prison-abolition/'>What is Prison Abolition</a>, The Nation. </li></ul><a href="https://www.patreon.com/Increments" rel="payment">Support Increments</a>

#4 - The Hubris of Computer Scientists

Vaden Masrani, a PhD alum in machine learning at UBC, and Ben Chugg, a PhD student in statistics at CMU, get into trouble arguing about everything except machine learning and statistics. Coherence is somewhere on the horizon. 
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