Joshua Loftus

Elon Musk is a mass murderer and this website is a machine for amplifying fascism. I'm here periodically to remind people of this, please find me elsewhere

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

Logging on to this site every once in a while and it just keeps becoming more blatantly and extremely racist, fascist, and pro-capitalist. Interesting combination, no?

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

This is why they're rushing to IPO. The founders all want to sell a lot of shares before the mass delusion wears off

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Why things will eventually fall apart:

1. Everybody, even Google, seems to be treating AI as if it were some kind of winner take all competition like web search was, in which Google taking over 95%

2. But everybody is building essentially the same technical solution with essentially the same data, so there is no moat.

3. If there is no moat, nobody is going to take 90% of the market.

4. With no clear winners, nobody can charge monopoly prices; instead, you get price wars and commodity pricing.

5. Which means everybody will wind up overpaying compared to the modest profits they will be able to make in an intensely competitive regime.

Am I missing something?

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

@mmjukic "brutal aristocracy of the highly moral"

That's your problem right there, if you can't see it nobody can help you

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

@DKThomp Hey, that's really cool news! Don't know why you had to share it from a notorious race science account, rather than like, I don't know, any public health or general science people out there who aren't constantly tweeting about "black crime" or whatever

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

These people don't really care about test results, learning, or even "if you hire this student will they be a good worker"

They just care about exclusivity. They want their own kid to have a signal of class membership. They don't want to teach kids who actually need to learn

[Neetu Arnold @neetu_arnold]

University of California STEM professors want standardized tests back due to severe math deficiencies among students:

“We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle school mathematics”

“The current admissions metric, based primarily on GPA & essays, can no longer reliably distinguish readiness for university-level STEM majors in an era of severe grade inflation & AI assisted application essays”

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

Hyperscalers just need to keep subsidizing their product for another ~5-10 years(?), with interest rates probably above 3% for the foreseeable future, and replacing GPUs every ~<4 years(?)

Or they could stop doing stupid unnecessary computation but that wouldn't be very hyper

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

We're getting another round of THE AI BUBBLE IS POPPING stories, with the news about Uber/Microsoft pulling back on AI subscriptions bc their agent costs went crazy.

Maybe. But, per below, GPU rental prices are still up 2x from where they were four months ago. It doesn't seem like demand is slowing down, at all. When, eg, NYC hotel prices are twice as high as they were last year, you shouldn't believe people telling you that nobody is going to NYC anymore.

Maybe someone smarter than me can correct me on this logic, but if the price for accessing AI compute is skyrocketing, that's because demand is still significantly outrunning supply, which sounds to me like the opposite of the beginning of the end of a bubble.

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

The age of lying and cheating

Is it any wonder investors can’t get enough of this bullshit? A class of people characterized by wanting to get money for doing nothing

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

Since 1893, Princeton professors have left the room when students take their final exams. The idea was that if you treat students honorably, they would behave honorably.

In response to AI-fueled academic dishonesty, the university just ended that system. https://t.co/hwjs3Q6pCe

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

@KelseyTuoc @rarestbarbie ML researcher here. “Solved” in ML almost always means, specifically, “acceptable accuracy on some particular benchmark dataset(s)”

I wouldn’t confidently declare the problem to be solved generally on the basis of a few ML papers passing a few benchmarks recently, but that’s me

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

*strategic enemies (thank you Smart Keyboard)

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

Nobody can possibly explain why the billionaire president and his billionaire capitalist friends are willing to sell stuff, for money, to our supposed district enemies (actual trade partners)

[Chris McGuire @ChrisRMcGuire]

Tonight, the Secretary of the Treasury is personally vetting and approving each company that gets access to the most advanced U.S. AI model, because the risks of the model being misused to hurt US national security are so high.

Also tonight, Jensen Huang is flying on Air Force One with President Trump to Beijing to sell China the AI chips it will use to develop its own Mythos-level AI model as soon as possible.

The administration’s AI policy remains inconsistent and incoherent. It is impossible to justify these two approaches simultaneously.

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

@arindube This is all very strange https://t.co/hPa9aCR4ZH

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

Coming from Europe to the US

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

now let's run Mythos™️ again and see how many new security bugs have introduced

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Skepticism of corporate marketing and AI boosterism is always warranted, but I think the folks who accused Anthropic of overrating Mythos should check out this post by Mozilla developers indicating that the Firefox team fixed more security bugs in April using Mythos than in the past 15 months combined.
https://t.co/0hmpnz0pQZ

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

I fucking hate this racist hellhole

Regret every minute of scrolling here

Just a parade of the worst of humanity

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

If only this headline were true. Universities have not been standing by, they have been actively pushing students to use the bullshit and plagiarism generation products

[John Tasioulas @JTasioulas]

Counteracting the outsourcing to AI of cognitive functions by students (and academics) will require much greater emphasis on subjecting them to face to face interrogation. Unfortunately precisely this form of robust intellectual scrutiny has been marginalized in recent years by academics.

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

@SashaGusevPosts This is your single experience, but the article is based on professors who have taught for multiple years and are describing what they perceive to be a new, worse problem than what you described

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

Elon Musk is one of the world's worst mass murderers

Tax him to oblivion, boycott his companies

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[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

@VcWabKDHN9OVdYq @getjonwithit Or a problem which is analogous--he doesn't know this, of course, which is why the anecdote doesn't support the broader argument or the quoted tweet, and @keysmashbandit is correct

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

@politicalmath That’s before the armed and masked paramilitary gang members grabbed her door and tried to force it open

You’re really losing it

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

I've seen trump supporters cheering on police and ICE using their cars to drive into crowds of protestors

Now they are saying if an officer even thinks someone might do the same thing to them, they should instantly use lethal force

Zero morality, just naked tribal bloodlust