Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • THE MORAL RADIUS There is some basic rule I haven’t articulated that’s along the

    THE MORAL RADIUS
    There is some basic rule I haven’t articulated that’s along the lines of the geographic scale of morality you can afford is the geographic scale of morality you can afford – meaning if you’re strong you can seek cooperation at scale or predation at scale. If you’re within the cooperative envelope (trade is possible) then the choice is both yours and your opponent’s. If they’re weaker it’s yours. If they’re stronger it’s theirs. The European problem is assuming that the world conducts war on the same terms europeans do with one another. They don’t. (See Keegan and Van Creveld).
    Europeans are as naive in the belief their cultural biases are normal for humans when they are the opposite. Every culture believes its biases are normal or good for human beings … but that’s false.
    Every culture other than europe failed by 800AD despite the agrarian revolution. And europe only succeeded because it restored Classical Thought and reconstructed greco-roman law around the north sea beginning in about 1000ad, as the muslims who preserved those works fled the rise of fundamentalism and it’s mandate of supernatural ignorance.

    Source date (UTC): 2026-02-25 16:37:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2026698148161495188

  • Understood. Though we work in the same frame as the LLMs (language) even though

    Understood. Though we work in the same frame as the LLMs (language) even though we convert. everything to operational prose (empirical), and so we don’t rely on external tools.
    Epistemology and ontology are done. They’re the first four volumes out of eight – about 1500pp each. AI governance layer mostly done. It will never be ‘done’ as in ‘completely’. Knowledge never is.
    In some sense we’re fighting existing architectures – but that’s just the state of the industry.
    There isn’t anyone doing what we are, but you can see the direction emerging in the research. The eventual outcome is deterministic.
    Kind of amazed how fast things are moving now…. 😉

    FWIW: original goal was computable law… that’s how we got here. The LLMs just came about and gave us a tech. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2026-02-25 16:22:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2026694425523662940

  • We have the numbers. It’s a small minority of women.. The problem is more that w

    We have the numbers. It’s a small minority of women.. The problem is more that women conform to mean girls out of self defense, not that most women ‘buy’ the nonsense

    Source date (UTC): 2026-02-25 02:53:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2026490690218467504

  • You’ve earned enough for pretty much anything. 😉 hugs. 😉

    You’ve earned enough for pretty much anything. 😉

    hugs. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2026-02-25 02:41:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2026487567030624619

  • (NLI humor, Insight) You know, I talk to Dr Brad every day. And he always has so

    (NLI humor, Insight)
    You know, I talk to Dr Brad every day. And he always has some idea that our work has inspired him to investigate. And then we talk about it, and he inspires me to investigate it. And then I do, and I don’t get my regular work done for the next few hours. ;). Yet I wouldn’t want to miss the opportunity to work on his ideas.

    Today we covered the differences in english, german, and russian literature, as reflections of their group strategies. And it was fascinating. I mean, I understand english and russian literature. But I didn’t really understand the german sort of ‘lack’ of it by comparison. So we went down that rathole.

    I love what I do because I love what we as a team do. 😉

    And in a world where the events are fascinating but the experience of living through them, is stressful, and our anticipation of the world we might have to live through as a consequence, is potentially terrifying, having something to work on that you love and is rewarding is a theraputic means of tolerating the chaos of the reorganization of the world we’re living through.

    There were so many complaints around the world about the Pax Americana and the Postwar Order created by the USA in response to the world wars. A very ‘english’ solution to creating peace through trade.

    The world will shudder from the lament of that passing order since they will all be poorer and less certain because of it. The fall of the Anglo order will mirror the fall of the Roman order in consequence.

    Why? Humans are self interested and always complain. As the greeks said man seeks luxuries – stimulations. The world always looks the European civilization’s Gift Horse in the Mouth. Whether Greek, Roman, West-european, British, or Anglo-American.

    Maybe europeans will unwind christianity enough to learn finally that the rest of the world asie from the very few like the Japanese and Koreans are unworthy because they are unable.

    I didn’t mean to end up here when I started this post but it was the logical conclusion. 🙁

    Cheers
    CD

    Source date (UTC): 2026-02-24 22:42:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2026427532774724004

  • Asking the same question Ariane. We’ve produced a universal ontology. But it’s a

    Asking the same question Ariane. We’ve produced a universal ontology. But it’s a constant battle to constrain the LLMs to use it.

    Source date (UTC): 2026-02-24 20:46:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2026398444064223426

  • (Thoughts) “Dying a little Inside.” I follow the intersexual conflict, just like

    (Thoughts)
    “Dying a little Inside.”

    I follow the intersexual conflict, just like I follow ideological, institutional, political, and international conflict.

    Fundamentally my work in decidability is a subconscious desire to end ignorance, error, delusion, bias, deceit and fraud so that we can cooperate on truthful reciprocal terms. Because I don’t like conflict. Especially dishonest conflict. I’m only good at it because I hate it, and that’s the only way to overcome it.

    I was just listening to a chat. My takeaway was that something died inside with every tragedy I experienced. Divorce, Illness, the immorality of the financial sector, the injustices done to my people by activism’s utopian abuse of the empirical common law. My own government coming after me when it was to blame, and my government coming after me more so when I sought to correct it – what Shakespeare meant with:

    — “For Who Would Bear The Proud Man’s Contumely (insult), the Pangs of Despised Love (Divorce), the Laws Delay (Courts), the Insolence of Office (Government), the Spurns that Patient Merit (tolerance) of The Unworthy (immoral) Takes. … who would these fardels (bundle of burdens) bear … ?” —

    All true. He closes with:

    “Conscience does make cowards of us all”.

    But this isn’t quite true. For some of us, we may die a little inside with every injustice and hurt. But some of us are not whittled away to resignation but spurred further to reverse the injustices – at any effort and at any cost.

    If maturity consists in our love of nature, life, and mankind, and our optimism and tolerance dying a bit at a time, then perhaps we have set about producing the wrong conditions of maturity.

    I have learned perhaps too much in my life, and spent the past years seeking solutions to the mounting crisis – but I’m no different from others who in similar phases of their civilizations have sought to capture practiced wisdom lost in an attempt to restore it – only to have it help the next iteration of civilization.

    The lesson of this century is one I have no promise of correction nor hope of retention: the female intuition is as destructive to the polity when unleashed as the male is destructive to the society when unleashed. Male violence has no place in the family and society and female irresponsibility and sedition no place in economics and politics.

    I prefer my women on a pedestal. But they have destroyed the illusion men have used to sculpt it. And I do not see a positive solution other than open recognition and embodiment in law.

    A little bit more dying inside.

    Cheers
    CD

    Source date (UTC): 2026-02-24 20:42:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2026397421211897890

  • (WORTH READING) Sr Fellow Luke, on “AI Doesn’t Think It Has Incentives” (With Ru

    (WORTH READING)
    Sr Fellow Luke, on “AI Doesn’t Think It Has Incentives”
    (With Runcible (AI) + Oversing (Platform) we are trying to solve the problem of AI bias by avoiding universalism and instead explaining the incentives of the ‘sides’ and recommending possible exchanges that produce mutual benefit.)

    Source date (UTC): 2026-02-23 17:01:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2025979394720981166

  • Founding Beliefs Were Not Universal (a) Man’s nature is not fixed but utilitaria

    Founding Beliefs Were Not Universal
    (a) Man’s nature is not fixed but utilitarian and adaptive and follows incentives – what is rational and advantageous varies by circumstance (b) reason accelerates adaptation and more so negotiation of adaptive cooperation at increasing scales (c) Man’s abilities, education, and experience are unequal – making incentives vary. (d) Man’s behavior then is not universal (a holdover from Christian universalism – not from European aristocratic tradition) but particular to the individual, to the sex, class, group, polity, and civilization that creates the portfolio of incentives man adapts to. (e) The founders were not bound by shared beliefs but shared problems and they represented a distribution usually described as Hamiltonian and Hobbes vs Jeffersonian and Locke, but is more varied on that spectrum.
    The cause of their generation’s myopia was the ratio of aristocracy (martial, governing) and nobility (clerical, administrative) proper, to the “lesser aristocracy” (Elites) that founded the country, to the emergent middle class due to expansion of trade during the age of sail, to the agrarian majority whether northern (small scale) family farmers or southern ‘industrial’ (large scale) plantation farmers. As class sizes change the realities and incentives of classes adapt – usually distributing influence (power) to alter outcomes across classes.
    Amplify their divisions by the fact that the continent was settled by four different fundamentalist groups from four different regions of Britain. This meant that the constitution had to be largely secular due to English (England, Wales, Scotland) tradition on the one hand and in order to mediate differences between sectarian justifications on the other. It was not just a matter of enlightenment prose but incentives. It’s also why the constitution was written in both English and German – because of the large number of Germans in the population.
    I’m not really trying to overthrow any argument here other than the presumption of a shared mind and set of beliefs, rather than shared interest given the incentives of the time, and the rather natural outcome of legal prose that sought to mediate differences between the parties founding the federation.

    Source date (UTC): 2026-02-23 16:30:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2025971661485531642

  • Your desperation is just evidence of your incompetence

    Your desperation is just evidence of your incompetence.

    Source date (UTC): 2026-02-23 02:22:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2025758030386930140