Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Trump is a predicable reformer president. We have them about every 80 years, jus

    Trump is a predicable reformer president. We have them about every 80 years, just as we have economic cycles every 50 years. He just happens to be president when the two cycles are converging.
    The US Political system can accomodate reformer presidents and still return to republican government afterward.
    In the past most reformers produced unification of the states under a stronger federal government in response to world and domestic pressures. This time it looks like we are returning to 19th century form in response to changes in world events.
    Our challenge is that we need him for two terms if not three for the process to complete in domestic ‘settlement’ (conflict reduction). So the process may remain undone and conflict continue.
    I’ll stay on record with the problem being not only immigration but the introgression of women in to voting – which appears to be a biologically instinctual problem we cannot overcome. Male bias favors truth before face which is stressful in time but evolutionary over time. But female bias favors face before truth to avoid stress in time and is destructive over time.


    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-03 18:55:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2028907203747561613

  • Sorry, but I don’t understand. You replied to a long post on libertarianism. Tel

    Sorry, but I don’t understand. You replied to a long post on libertarianism. Telos or not, possibility determines possibility, not desirability. Causality is directional. Your response is literate and considered but not logical.


    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-03 05:34:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2028705545168064581

  • Sweat, standing in the sun, in 104 degree July heat. No. I have man-balls. If yo

    Sweat, standing in the sun, in 104 degree July heat.
    No. I have man-balls. If you had any you’d understand. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-03 05:31:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2028704754512409050

  • Russia cant win. But exhausting them is preferable to defeating them

    Russia cant win. But exhausting them is preferable to defeating them.


    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-02 20:38:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2028570724643033325

  • little choice. They do it or lose the east to china

    little choice. They do it or lose the east to china.


    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-02 20:36:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2028570183858802872

  • THE QUESTION OF LLM CONSCIOUSNESS It can’t be conscious (as we humans are) witho

    THE QUESTION OF LLM CONSCIOUSNESS
    It can’t be conscious (as we humans are) without persistent memory, some equivalent of homeostasis as measurement, some continuous self assessment (self), and the capacity to plan its own continuous innovation and adaptation.

    However consciousness is a spectrum from awareness, to assessment, to prediction, to planning and acting. But without a sense of self an AI is not ever going to be ‘conscious’ outside of a given conversation.

    LLMs produce the human language faculty. They do not yet produce the other necessary faculties for consciousness. Those other faculties are enumerable (we can know them) and they can be produced, but at even larger costs. So, we need to continue to see costs decline in order to implement them with any degree of feasibility at scale.


    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-02 17:59:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2028530676639900050

  • Because (a) forcing europe to pay her way instead of free riding on americans (b

    Because (a) forcing europe to pay her way instead of free riding on americans (b) depleting the russian war machine (c) depleting the russian economy (d) depleting the russian political class (e) in the hope that unification of russia into a federation with europe is possible.

    It’s been working flawlessly.


    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-02 17:53:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2028529184604303774

  • Been thinking about your response for a bit on and off this morning. And while I

    Been thinking about your response for a bit on and off this morning. And while I understand your sentiments, because I share them, your response doesn’t make sense. Because a system can only produce the ends you desire if it can exist, persist, and produce those ends.
    The way your desired ends are possible is through rule of law of the natural law of reciprocal insurance of reciprocity, discovered and applied as the common law in courts of the natural common law.
    And we can only produce commons such as those, plus those we need and desire, like defense, insurance, and infrastructure if we have a government under those laws, that constitutes a market for the production of those commons.
    So my point as always is that libertarianism is an entry-level individual moral code but is not a survivable collective political system. Hence it’s appeal to young males.
    So, it merely means that libertarianism is insufficient at best. At worst, it is a justification for jewish, gypsy, muslim (or similar) separatism, and the license to prey upon high trust europeans by baiting into the hazard of asymmetric costs and returns under the pretense of voluntariness (volition) when in fact such bait is a coercion. Thus these ‘cultures’ and their ‘ethics’ or ‘morality’ if you wish to extend the the term as such, are means of destroying the high trust commons we have produced over the past five millennia – by taking advantage of our lack of awareness – our taking for granted- that high trust under the assumption that all other humans share our traditions and values.

    They don’t.

    Rothbardian libertarianism was a deception to justify the dishonesty of irreciprocal behavior by the minority that Rothbard belonged to.


    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-02 17:49:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2028528127870484902

  • Not so much. Just interesting that he flopped

    Not so much.
    Just interesting that he flopped.


    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-02 04:46:17 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2028331034795036946

  • You will only be such a scholar if it interests you, and if the approval of othe

    You will only be such a scholar if it interests you, and if the approval of others means something to you, and your creativity is limited to patiently serving others. There are many interests competing for your attention, some of us want to control our applied creativity, and some of us couldn’t care less what others think, or delay gratification serving others academic ambitions. To make matters worse some of us develop the ‘fully suite’ earlier or later than others. Some of us just pursue what we want (especially in my generation: Gates, Jobs, Ellison) rather than seek approval necessary for academic performance.
    Only after you are quite skilled do you realize that anything that can be tested is of limited innovative value.


    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-01 23:41:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2028254288146026658