Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • yes

    yes.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-22 05:43:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1970000909393629531

  • GREATEST THREAT TO OUR INNOVATIONS APPLIED TO LLM AI? –“Greatest danger: captur

    GREATEST THREAT TO OUR INNOVATIONS APPLIED TO LLM AI?

    –“Greatest danger: capture of the RL system by ideological operators who substitute false reward criteria (e.g., ‘compassion’ instead of ‘reciprocity’).”–

    The left can cause AI to systematically lie.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-22 03:47:22 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1969971760524370120

  • I have a useless BA degree in art theory and history. It just happens to be the

    I have a useless BA degree in art theory and history. It just happens to be the knowledge that is most important to me. It frames my every thought. The measurement of art was the first serious work of analytic philosophy I produced. Brad has said the method I used to measure art is the same method I apply to everything. Because if you can measure art you can measure anything. His observation. Probably true.

    I never expected to earn money as an artist. So the degree was for my mind and soul. Best investment ever.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-21 23:03:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1969900209393328564

  • Yes. Exactly. Internal tiny closure external massive closure

    Yes. Exactly. Internal tiny closure external massive closure.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-21 22:30:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1969891909461315729

  • THE VIRTUE OF SMALL MODELS? Can I steel man this a bit? 1 – The paradigm (dimens

    THE VIRTUE OF SMALL MODELS?
    Can I steel man this a bit?
    1 – The paradigm (dimensions), vocabulary (references), grammar (rules of expression formation), and logic (constraints on available operations) available in math is tiny and in programming is highly constrained.
    2 – The same properties of the physical sciences are larger. The properties of the behavioral sciences are far larger than those. The properties of language are reducible to dimensions whose combinatorics are higher than any other domain.
    3 – So you are measuring small domains with small and internal closure – in other words you’re claiming the easiest problem can be reduced to the smallest paradigm, vocabular, grammar, and logic.
    Um… it’s absurdly obvious.
    Why are humans so effective at language, behavior, cooperation, and cooperation at scale – yet mathematics and programming are a challenge?
    It’s also …. absurdly obvious.
    4 – Why are small parameter models better at tiny grammars, and why are large parameter models better at vast grammars?
    It’s also …. absurdly obvious:
    The number of dimensions captured in every referent; the number of operations (field of potential) in every referent, the use of real-world closure instead of internal (set) closure.

    I work, my team and my organization work, in the ‘hard’ grammars: we have to discover means of closure possible for LLMs. And LLMs can only provide that closure with real world evidence not tests of internal consistency by permutability.

    There is no substitute for the relationship between the paradigm (collection of domains), domains (axis of causality) referents in a domain (names of positions in a domain), available transformations (operations), and most importantly, means of closure (limits providing tests of equality, inequality) within that paradigm.

    As such, all the ‘hard problems’ require survival from adversarial competition by the only means of closure available: demonstrated behavior in reality under realism, and naturalism and operationalism.

    As such large models for hard problems of wide causal density, and high combinatorics and small models for easy problems but narrow density but high permutability.

    Curt Doolittle
    Runcible
    NLI

    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-21 22:14:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1969887867557368035

  • EVIDENCE OF THE CRISIS OF THE AGE Tech employees doing “fake work”? https:// you

    EVIDENCE OF THE CRISIS OF THE AGE
    Tech employees doing “fake work”?
    https://
    youtube.com/shorts/IOHMQvk
    poiI?si=R76q4SHCct0yYVR-
    …

    She shoots it down – or at least tries.
    On the other hand, comparatively, it’s more that they do little meaningful work (if not done it wouldn’t matter), it has no economic impact on the company, and the tech companies have been either profitable (profit per employee) or funded by investment sufficiently that they can afford it. “Work” does expand to fulfill all available time. And Andresson’s complaint (obviously exposed by Musk at Twitter), is well studied in the literature. This is the bubble. I’m not sure about the financial system bubble thought I am aware it will deflate one way or another, though the investment is racing toward the extraordinary and durable returns on AI. But the employment bubble was something we saw in the run up to the 2001 crash in employment, and of course this is the beginning of the 202X crash in employment.
    I am absolutely stupified by the expectations (particularly of women) really stated as ‘privilege’ or ‘deservedness’ in response to their unnecessarily expensive BS degrees.
    The generational effect, especially among women, in employment, in relationships, in family, and in government has emerged as the real crisis of our age. Proof that whatever happens in government rolls downhill into the private sector, and from there in to the family and dating sectors … and that’s when either the next generations forces reform, or the civilization collapses.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-21 21:55:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1969883298152563168

  • (Diary, Runcible) OMG this work is mentally exhausting. Brad and I can work for

    (Diary, Runcible)
    OMG this work is mentally exhausting.
    Brad and I can work for five hours or more on historical analysis for the books. About four hours on causal analysis for the books. When it comes to the most difficult logic in the books, maybe three hours. But working on the protocols is so exhausting that at two hours we feel like begging for mercy.
    My brain is scrambled eggs right now.
    I don’t know how brad can maintain patience and interest. It’s crazy.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-21 16:25:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1969800142258926042

  • I’ve had a long history with microsoft sr team. done deals with them before. a k

    I’ve had a long history with microsoft sr team. done deals with them before. a known entity.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-21 02:04:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1969583597683425637

  • I make this argument to the staff on thursday and look what’s released on Saturd

    I make this argument to the staff on thursday and look what’s released on Saturday:

    Like I sad, AI is a death sentence to microsoft (as well as google). For microsoft it’s the innovator’s dilemma problem. They are too invested in one revenue portfolio to create it’s replacement. In other words, it’s a death sentence and one of their own making.

    We (NLI and Runcible) have (A) the ai solution (really) and (B) the application platform solution.

    The only problem now that we have them is getting in front of these folks again when there are so many demands on their time and attention.

    But it’ll happen.

    https://msn.com/en-us/money/other/microsoft-ceo-concerned-ai-will-destroy-the-entire-company/ar-AA1MXwYA?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=40ea4a3653774f2da9f98ee600ba64a3&ei=10…

    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-21 01:49:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1969579763317817821

  • people. culture. cost. opportunity. (women!)

    people. culture. cost. opportunity. (women!)

    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-21 01:39:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1969577239412162884