Joshua Loftus
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Joshua Loftus
@joftius
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

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.


The attention crisis is so dire at schools right now that film professors can't even get their students to finish movies, and the kids don't even look up the plots of the movies they skip, so students fail basic in-class quizzes like "what happened at the end of the movie?"





Tbh most people who considered studying math/applied math say they noticed at some point that someone in their class just got it on so much more of an intuitive level and they realized they’d never reach that. I definitely had this experience. Sure if I kept going at for an arbitrarily long time I’d *maybe* be able to solve the problem, but the point is that we don’t actually have endless time, and being ‘good’ at math at a certain level does require that you can do things reasonably quickly.


A 37-year-old mom, smiling in her car. She tells the agent passing her by. "It's ok, dude. I'm not mad at you." You think this woman suddenly goes all Jason Stratham and says, "That's it, I'm taking you DOWN muthafucka!" and guns the engine to hit him? You need to up your meds.



“Education appears to be the most consistent, robust, and durable method yet to be identified for raising intelligence … The effect of 1 additional year of education … was estimated at approximately 1 to 5 standardized IQ points.”

Freeze frames of the specific moments when the ICE agent draws and fires his pistol three times, killing the woman driving the vehicle:

@JohnHolbein1 @indeed This doesn’t really tell us anything about what is optimal. Having a conviction expunged due to DNA evidence is still an incredibly negative signal about quality, because no unproblematic individual would ever be caught up in circumstances where a wrong conviction was possible.








You never *had* to.




