Ivan Jankovic

Philosopher/economist. Neoliberal globalist elitist, rootless cosmopolitan.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

🎯 I have an aversion to excess chess analogies, but England going up a goal and then pulling back against Messi instead of continuing to attack was like going up a pawn and then trying to play passive defense against Mikhail Tal!

[Ivan Jankovic @giovanelo74]

@GunnerPuls level super easy, Juan Sebastian Veron.

[Ivan Jankovic @giovanelo74]

@Noahpinion I think the cost of hating nuclear are far higher than the cost of hating solar.

[Ivan Jankovic @giovanelo74]

@CallmePat_ricia it would have been offside if Kolo Muani passed the ball to Mbape.

[Ivan Jankovic @giovanelo74]

@BiankaB12 what is the "system" you are talking about?

[Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 @sikorskiradek]

Poland ahead of Serbia but lagging behind Scandinavia.

[Ivan Jankovic @giovanelo74]

@calwokebot Albanians are not Slavs

[Michael Martens @Andric1961]

Serbia: In the upcoming elections, the EU should support neither Aleksandar Vučić nor the students. The best thing the EU could do to help Serbia is - accepting Montenegro as a member state. Or, if that proves to be impossible, at least take Montenegro into the single market.

[Ivan Jankovic @giovanelo74]

@30MinMinistries I believe religious people asking non religious people what is your religion ("what you believe") are stupid people.

[Ivan Jankovic @giovanelo74]

@BiankaB12 My wive's parents, retirees, just installed an AC in their house. Thus far they refused not because they were too poor, but because they are fromt he Balkans and they think the AC is "not healthy". It took some arms twisting by younger generation to do it.

[Ivan Jankovic @giovanelo74]

waiting for three fucking hours at the fucking hair salon in fucking Tallinn, fucking Estonia, on our so called fucking vacation, after spending four fucking hours trying to find the fucking place. With fucking google maps.

[Ivan Jankovic @giovanelo74]

@ryankatzrosene this was a "famous" hockey stick graph, fabricated with no data and statistical manipulation.

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

“How the world began is a problem for the physicist and the astronomer [...] How life began is a problem for the biologist [...]. Why the world began, why life began, on the other hand, I think are pseudo-questions.”

—W.V.O. Quine on the nature of philosophy

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.

You thought it was you. It is not you.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.

The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.

Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.

What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.

Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.

They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.

The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."

The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.

This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.

The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.

Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

[Ivan Jankovic @giovanelo74]

@PAHoyeck Richard Rorty.

[Ivan Jankovic @giovanelo74]

@cafreiman why are you indulging them in their wish to be referred to as "democratic socialists"? Call them simply by their real name they dislike - "socialists".

[Ivan Jankovic @giovanelo74]

@charlescwcooke was Donald Trump a disaster candidate?

[Ivan Jankovic @giovanelo74]

@vkaramurza And the only way for the later to happen is for Russia to lose its war in Ukraine, in pursuit of which goal the Russian opposition leaders should support arming Ukraine and proclaim Russia's defeat as the strategic goal.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Capitalism has in fact shrunk the middle class—by making people too rich to remain middle class:

[Ivan Jankovic @giovanelo74]

@thomasjdias @Noahpinion because followers of FDR despise the Founding Fathers, the champions of a small and limited government incapable of collectivist mobilization and "bold experimentation"