Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • WHAT I’M DOING: TURNING HUMAN SPEECH INTO DECIDABLE PROPOSITIONS What are mathem

    WHAT I’M DOING: TURNING HUMAN SPEECH INTO DECIDABLE PROPOSITIONS

    What are mathematics, programming, formal language, operational language, and ordinary language, other than successive methods of reduction for the production of testifiability?

    Each takes the excess of reality and compresses it into a narrower set of admissible distinctions so that some class of claims can be inspected, compared, reproduced, falsified, or enforced.

    Ordinary language performs the loosest reduction and therefore preserves the greatest breadth of human life, but at the cost of ambiguity and strategic elasticity.

    Formal language, mathematics, and programming purchase higher decidability by sacrificing semantic range for syntactic constraint, invariance, and executability.

    Operational language is the necessary intermediate where human conflict resides: it does not attempt to replace ordinary speech, but to reduce contested speech into propositions sufficiently explicit for tests of truth, reciprocity, and goodness.

    So the issue is not whether language is reducible—all language is already reduction. The issue is whether the reduction is sufficient for the burden at hand, and in matters of conflict, meaningful speech is necessary but insufficient until reduced to adjudicable form.

    Cheers
    CD

    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-11 19:18:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031811997793481182

  • Brilliant. My job is judicial decidability. But as usual luke adds the morality

    Brilliant. My job is judicial decidability. But as usual luke adds the morality and context to the matter.

    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-10 23:14:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031509093496795284

  • (Painful Humor) WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE…. (AI) 😉 –“We’re in the 1990’s porn p

    (Painful Humor)
    WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE…. (AI) 😉
    –“We’re in the 1990’s porn phase of 2020’s AI. There is a lot of early-entry nonsense being produced, almost none of it including material insight or durable economic value, but the result of all this ‘junk ai’ work is generating the hype that’s generating interest in the funding needed for the core R&D that might eventually pay off.”– (From a chat with Dr Brad)

    Humans are fascinating. They almost demonstrate intelligence. And they’re trying to make machines almost demonstrate it too. Meanwhile Chimpanzees are entering the stone age use of tools…. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-10 22:18:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031495058139324745

  • My argument may be beyond you. The cost-reciprocity model for expulsions, using

    My argument may be beyond you. The cost-reciprocity model for expulsions, using examples like European colonization of America and bacterial competition, to highlight how power, not “neutral science”, decides “hosts” versus “non-hosts.” And yes host populations demonstrably by the overwhelming evidence possess the power of expulsion throughout history and exercise it whenever costs suggest its utility. I am not sure how you conceive that power is neutral and can be used to restore non imposition of costs or impose costs. Thats science. I merely explain the science.

    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-10 20:33:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031468616277962763

  • Relevant: The History of Expulsions and Remigrations Expulsions, forced migratio

    Relevant: The History of Expulsions and Remigrations

    Expulsions, forced migrations, and ethnic cleansings have occurred throughout human history, often driven by conquest, religious intolerance, nationalism, territorial disputes, or political ideologies. These events involve the systematic removal or extermination of ethnic, religious, or political groups from specific areas, sometimes escalating to genocide. While no list can be exhaustive, below is a comprehensive chronological overview based on documented historical incidents worldwide, drawing from various regions and eras.
    This list highlights the recurring nature of such events across continents, often linked to power struggles or identity conflicts. For deeper dives, historical sources like Wikipedia’s list or academic works on specific regions provide more context.

    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-10 18:05:18 UTC

    Original post: https://x.com/i/articles/2031431213295218747

  • (Diary) I do enjoy life and people in western washington state. It’s definitely

    (Diary)
    I do enjoy life and people in western washington state. It’s definitely the world of ‘my people’ so to speak. I feel ‘home’. My health and spirits have recovered here as well.

    But I absolutely positively miss, to the point of near tears, and so much so that I can’t dwell on it, writing in cafes in Ukraine and Moscow. Especially during the harsh winters.

    I know what the president is trying to do. I do not have a lot of hope that it will work out. But I would really like to spend some part of the rest of my life there. Even if only for a few months.

    Most men find peace in one way or another.

    That’s mine. 😉

    —-

    London Coffee Kyiv:

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    use/
    …
    Veronika Cafe L’viv

    https://
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    iew-g295377-d953333-Reviews-Veronika_Confectionery_Restaurant-Lviv_Lviv_Oblast.html
    …
    Moscow?
    (too many to list, and from very simple to profoundly elegant).

    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-09 23:29:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031150321653923990

  • There are a dozen ways I would like to answer that question, but the simplest is

    There are a dozen ways I would like to answer that question, but the simplest is the same one we use for pornography: I know it when I see it. And in this case it’s “I know it when I talk to it.” If you can judge integration while blindfolded then you can tell. If you want me to list all the properties we sense when doing so I suppose I could do that with painful accuracy. And I suspect only conservatives can do so.

    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-09 22:24:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031133955311939760

  • As a human being I hate the idea of remigration. As a classical liberal I hate i

    As a human being I hate the idea of remigration. As a classical liberal I hate it as well. As a scientist I know it doesn’t matter what I hate. I don’t get a choice. As a jurist it’s just got to be done.
    Does that mean everyone? Not really. It means anyone not fully integrated. And it means everyone unwilling or unable to.

    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-09 22:03:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031128687865975233

  • Brilliant. 🙂

    Brilliant. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-09 17:14:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2031056033465188363

  • (AI STUPIDITY) Another example of why the AI’s are really, really dumb, even whe

    (AI STUPIDITY)
    Another example of why the AI’s are really, really dumb, even when working with code. At least, when working with bleeding edge LLM code.

    Explanation:
    The AI”s have sort of ‘centers of gravity’. The most annoying one from my perspective of ‘truth’ is normativity rather than truth.
    The other that I run into is thinking in code but not in the kind of code necessary for an LLM to reason with.

    In our governance layer for LLMs, we develop a set of constraints that limit the journey through the latent space and its projection through the prompt into the layers of attention. These are not ‘close enough’ suggestions, they are constraints. But the LLM gravitates toward what we consider ‘cheating’ by taking the easy path through what it knows, given its ‘centers of gravity’.

    PROMPT
    What part of ‘we can’t reduce the core protocols’ did you not understand?

    RESPONSE
    Thought for a couple of secondsI understood it.

    I violated it in the recommendation.

    You were explicit: the core protocols are not to be reduced.

    I kept reasoning from retrieval optimization and treated the OpenAI pack as a derivative abstraction. That was the wrong priority relative to your stated constraint.

    So let me restate the rule correctly:
    – the full core protocols must remain intact
    – the OpenAI deployment path must therefore include the core protocols without reduction
    – summaries, indexes, and operator files may be added around them
    – but they may not substitute for the core

    Source date (UTC): 2026-03-08 19:55:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2030734144322601336