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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?
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Joshua Loftus
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Joshua Loftus
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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
Katılım Kasım 2011
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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. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…
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@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
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@rarestbarbie A lot of ML researchers worked very hard on this problem and found disparities in, yes, the 2017-2023 period that they then *solved* through hard work. I'm glad they fixed this problem!
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i’m east asian, from the entire time from 2017 to 2023, apple face ID would allow my indian friend to unlock my iphone
machine vision is absolutely less effective on nonwhite people. anybody nonwhite who has used these things knows this. you do not, because you are white
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc
Are autonomous vehicles (self-driving cars) “less able to detect people of color”? That’s what I read in The Atlantic this weekend, in Xochitl Gonzalez’s “People Who Don’t Like People Are Making All of Our Decisions.” It appears to be entirely false.
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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.
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I don't have rules on AI use in doing problem sets. But to avoid students using AI to substitute for learning, I give an in-class quiz based on each PSET.
If students mostly used AI to do the PSETs and didn't learn from using AI, one might expect a low correlation between the PSET and QUIZ grades.
In practice, I find a correlation coefficient of 0.77.
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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. hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind…
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I fucking hate this racist hellhole
Regret every minute of scrolling here
Just a parade of the worst of humanity
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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.
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@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
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This is exactly what happened in the (pre-smartphone era) undergrad Intro Film class I took: lots of kids think they're signing up to rewatch Shawshank Redemption and then, yeah, aren't interested in Truffaut. It's just describing college but ominously.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
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?"
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Elon Musk is one of the world's worst mass murderers
Tax him to oblivion, boycott his companies
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@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
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@getjonwithit How do you know your friend hadn’t come across the problem before?
The reality is that people good at math are good because they do it all the time; think about it all the time.
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I remember this moment very vividly. Apologies in advance for the arrogant and self-indulgent personal anecdote...
I originally went to university with the intention of becoming a pure mathematician, and for the first couple of years this dream seemed to be pretty safe. (1/10)
Nicole@elocinationn
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.
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@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
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Honestly, that video really changed my view of Good's internal state when she hit the gas. I originally thought she was terrified and trying to get away
But after watching that video, I could very much see her thinking "lol, I'm just gonna nudge this guy, give him a little bump with my car to show him I'm not afraid of him"
She seemed to have no concept of the dangerous game she was playing
Carl@HistoryBoomer
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.
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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
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@PanpsychismA @zackkanter Zack, I am a statistician and I'm telling you these people know what they're doing. They understand correlation is not causation, that's why they're using studies with instrumental variables and regression discontinuity designs.
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@zackkanter guy looking at a paper with a strategy for identifying causality: lmao it's just a correlation!
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Tips for increasing IQ, based on the latest science:
- If you’re planning to get a PhD in comms, switch to astrophysics (causes much higher IQ)
- If you like working with your hands, become a neurosurgeon instead of plumber
- Get a higher-paying job (lots of data on higher earners consistently have higher IQ)
- If you’re really optimizing for IQ, consider winning a Nobel Prize.
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee
“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.”
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This thread is clear & conclusive
He was not in the vehicle's path when he shot
The driver had other chances to hit agents, but avoided doing so
POTUS, ICE, DHS, etc, are rushing to smear someone they murdered as a terrorist. If they get away with it they can do it to anyone
Aaron Fritschner@Fritschner
Freeze frames of the specific moments when the ICE agent draws and fires his pistol three times, killing the woman driving the vehicle:
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It's like he's being paid specifically to find ways to blame the left for problems obviously caused by the right
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Once someone has decided to rationalize being a racist, there is almost nothing else too evil or cruel to rationalize. Racism treats some people as though they aren't people, and being OK with that makes you morally bankrupt
Nicholas Decker@captgouda24
@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.
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Logging on X the Everything App to bravely stand up and defend billionaires
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