Curt Doolittle

Category: AI, Computation, and Technology

  • “ROBOT JUDGES” (from elsewhere) I have worked on automating legal argument since

    “ROBOT JUDGES”

    (from elsewhere)

    I have worked on automating legal argument since we wrote ipx drivers by hand, and was certainly one of the first people to do it for every federal court. I currently work on the strict construction of law from the test of reciprocity, and the tests of whether one is given truthful testimony. Most cases are settled before trial because they are decidable, and those that make it to trial not easily decided without subjective testing of incentives, and the vast majority of legal cases are decided by whether we subjectively test the believability of the individuals at hand – (and some by oversaturating the reason of the jury). If AI justice is at all possible we are very, very, very far from it. And even so, I don’t think we would permit it. We might permit a machine to produce information FOR a jury. But if we get to the point where we abandon the jury of our peers, it’s time to hoist the jolly roger so to speak.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-19 21:53:00 UTC

  • FB FUTURE Breaking up FB is not as important to me as regulating it. But if we w

    FB FUTURE

    Breaking up FB is not as important to me as regulating it. But if we were to break it up I would recommend breaking up publisher(content and advertising) and platform organizations, and remove Mark from the platform. And then open up the platform to other publishers. This preserves the income for the shareholders but eliminates the interference by the publisher (content control). I would do the same for google. Both of which are now infrastructure, and communication and business necessities – particularly for small international businesses.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-17 08:02:00 UTC

  • Bing is a far better search engine for almost everything other than google schol

    Bing is a far better search engine for almost everything other than google scholar.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-14 10:37:00 UTC

  • Great example of grid analysis (parallel series)Updated Oct 8, 2019, 3:11 PM

    Great example of grid analysis (parallel series)Updated Oct 8, 2019, 3:11 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-08 15:11:00 UTC

  • What evidence do you have that the state cannot end digital shares in digital ne

    What evidence do you have that the state cannot end digital shares in digital networks?

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-06 12:30:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1180822695988121600

    Reply addressees: @NickmhTw

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1180822192495321088

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    @curtdoolittle The state needs to demonstrate that anything it economically touches isn’t poison. Untill that happens? Btc will be the standard by which all others will be measured.
    It can generate as much crypto as it likes. It will “suck-in” the naive. But that’s all.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1180822192495321088

  • “Quote: If FAMGA dropped off the face of the Earth, “Nearly all of your electron

    —“Quote: If FAMGA dropped off the face of the Earth, “Nearly all of your electronic devices would either stop working or would disappear, the internet would become nothing short of mass chaos, nearly all e-commerce activity would halt, and your undying thirst to watch cat videos would forever go unquenched.””—Matt Hulbert

    These companies are protected by a combination of

    1) effectively unlimited access to speculative credit markets;

    2) domestic intellectual property rights;

    3) ability to grind the court process;

    4) unconstitutional (irreciprocal) disintermediation of the public from juridical defense in matters of the commons; 5) unhealthy american habit of inaction on consumer protection;

    6) the slow pace of american legal adaptation to novel monopolies (Oil, Telecom, now internet service providers); 7) And at least, recently concern that such interference cascade would expose the weakness of the economy and its dependence on debt (financialization) and a narrow distribution of tech companies whose assets are being duplicated in china where none of these american ‘issues’ are a problem.

    I’m a conservative libertarian but our lack of consumer protection is criminal – tech is just obvious. Credit is even more criminal. I’ve lived in a very poor country (Ukraine) born costs in many, and there is no reason for most of the absurd costs we pay for what have converted from luxuries to infrastructure.

    Google is the national resource location platform, amazon the national shopping and delivery platform, and Facebook the national communication platform.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 18:29:00 UTC

  • I am not sure but i think this latter measure is what taleb tried to discover an

    I am not sure but i think this latter measure is what taleb tried to discover and failed. My understanding is we will not know it before we develop AI’s with GAI. Hippocampus, Cornu Ammonis, sec. 3 provides our auto association. Thatamic attention focuses association/prediction.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-02 03:45:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1179241071567618048

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    @mizroba @LTF_01 Well, since we produce hypotheses by free association with what we would consider practically infinite causal dimensions it’s partly true. But (a) we can reverse engineer them afterward, and (b) there appears a measurable ‘distance’ of prediction we can begin to identify.

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    @curtdoolittle

    @mizroba @LTF_01 Well, since we produce hypotheses by free association with what we would consider practically infinite causal dimensions it’s partly true. But (a) we can reverse engineer them afterward, and (b) there appears a measurable ‘distance’ of prediction we can begin to identify.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1179239804204126210

  • It’s not total we just don’t know the process. individual actors at T and FB can

    It’s not total we just don’t know the process.
    individual actors at T and FB can do these things without it being done as policy.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-01 18:58:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1179108463839993856

    Reply addressees: @Christi32507806 @NoahRevoy @StefanMolyneux

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  • So I don’t know how important it is. Here is the display issue, and the error in

    So I don’t know how important it is. Here is the display issue, and the error in the code. Again, it doesn’t break the reading experience, and I dont know how many people use the web version of kindle (not many), but just submitting the issue in case it’s easily fixed. -cheers https://t.co/lO5pBnJqM0

    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-30 14:14:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1178674593780944896

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    @TOOEdit It’s only in Kindle Cloud Reader, not Kindle App. For some reason it’s parsing out random “font-size-6” so I don’t know what the source is, but there must be a code buried in there that the processor is misinterpreting. Most people will NOT use the cloud reader.

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    @TOOEdit It’s only in Kindle Cloud Reader, not Kindle App. For some reason it’s parsing out random “font-size-6” so I don’t know what the source is, but there must be a code buried in there that the processor is misinterpreting. Most people will NOT use the cloud reader.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1178673634916876290

  • It’s only in Kindle Cloud Reader, not Kindle App. For some reason it’s parsing o

    It’s only in Kindle Cloud Reader, not Kindle App. For some reason it’s parsing out random “font-size-6” so I don’t know what the source is, but there must be a code buried in there that the processor is misinterpreting. Most people will NOT use the cloud reader.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-30 14:11:07 UTC

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