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

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Joined November 2011

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Joshua Loftus
@joftius
Oct 9, 2025
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
@joftius
Sep 2
"I will conclude on a more personal note: in my own research, I have chosen not to rely on artificial intelligence to replace my creative process."
Steven Strogatz
@stevenstrogatz
Sep 2
Hugo Duminil-Copin, a Fields Medalist, writes from the heart about what we mathematicians lose when we do math with AI. Many people here on X will disagree with what he's saying. But before trolling or laughing or braying, try understanding what he's saying. He's not trying to
Joshua Loftus
@joftius
Aug 21
People here keep forgetting this platform is optimized to amplify racism. Nathan Cofnas is not a whistleblower. He didn’t expose some secret. He doesn’t care about academic integrity, and the people who do were already on the Arday case. Cofnas just activated a racist cancel mob
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Joshua Loftus
@joftius
Aug 20
In 2021 I predicted the Silicon Valley C-suite/VC political realignment toward supporting genocidal fascism Musk's (illegal) demolition of USAID is going to kill millions of children
Joshua Loftus
@joftius
May 20, 2021
Discovered @80000Hours has a podcast and I'm baffled at how much overlap there is between effective altruism and, e.g. libertarian "rationalism" No amount of AI alignment research is going to stop tech CEOs from pushing the profit-from-genocide button, only unionized workers can
Joshua Loftus
@joftius
Aug 2
"Is there not something evil in the act of blocking all future generations of mathematicians from the experience of discovery?" They aren't just stealing all recorded human civilization, they are taking the future as well. Every pinnacle of human experience-- automated, "solved"
Ryan Lowe
@ryan_t_lowe
Aug 1
thinking of this heartbreaking essay written by a mathematician last week, before this most recent news dropped
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