Curt Doolittle

Category: AI, Computation, and Technology

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1545835406 Timestamp) SHOW PREP: AI. RPL. INITIAL: JF’s THEORY. ai..modification…biology.. PART I.

    1. Fear of weapons – they will happen. As soon as the power to weight ratio is solved, Men are no longer much use.

    2. Fear of job displacement – we can compensate for most of it as long as we limit immigration.

    3. Limiting problems are cost/energy/chice-competition

    PART II. What I am unsure about and what I am sure about. UNSURE 1. Unsure about limits of emergence as memory increases. Appears that symbolic recursive performs the same function at cost of state and precision, and increased demand for communication. Appears that consequent layers will produce same functionality without the information loss. SURE 1. Continuous forecasting … of WHAT?

    1. Go, chess, checkers, are ‘simple’ problems.
      Speech recognition, driving, are simple problems.
      Adaptation to continuous problems is HARD.

    2. Decidability => Required => Intent
      Consciousness = Social/Moral
      Comprehensible – Human Action as Language (networks are not open to introspection).
      Property as Moral Calculation
      Hemispheric Competition

    3. Problem of discovery is not intelligence but testing ideas.
      Small number of fundamental innovations in the frame (darwin, einstein, menger, mathiness/probability/operations)
      Small number of fundamental methods of lying.

    4. Liability of human work doesn’t end. Nuclear devices, chemical weapons, hazardous chemicals etc.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546134225 Timestamp) If you haven’t done the Netflix > Black Mirror > Bandersnatch thing yet you really should. Great use of the tech. Creates interesting expansion on the high-plot-density with many-character-arcs trend we’ve seen over the past decade.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546134225 Timestamp) If you haven’t done the Netflix > Black Mirror > Bandersnatch thing yet you really should. Great use of the tech. Creates interesting expansion on the high-plot-density with many-character-arcs trend we’ve seen over the past decade.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546872950 Timestamp) A NOTE ON PROGRAMMING AND PARADIGMS 1) There are diminishing returns on extension of paradigms 2) At some point overextension of paradigms produces errors 3) These overextensions (exhaustions of opportunity) lead to innovations (generally increasing precision of the paradigm or falsifying it by recombination.) OOP was particularly useful in the creation of reusable code in the era before so many libraries and so much open source. Many of our most popular languages today are actually script languages written over huge functional libraries. I prefer OOP because i feel I can structure readable and maintainable programs. My view (which is traditional) is that just as we have layers of the brain, we have layers of the computer. The base to interface with the hardware. the second to transfer hardware information into commensurable symbols, and the third to manipulate those commensurable symbols to achieve goals. This makes it possible for vendors to produce slightly different hardware and different operating systems run on that hardware. Just as our brains allow us to function in different groups, in different environments, with different languages.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546872950 Timestamp) A NOTE ON PROGRAMMING AND PARADIGMS 1) There are diminishing returns on extension of paradigms 2) At some point overextension of paradigms produces errors 3) These overextensions (exhaustions of opportunity) lead to innovations (generally increasing precision of the paradigm or falsifying it by recombination.) OOP was particularly useful in the creation of reusable code in the era before so many libraries and so much open source. Many of our most popular languages today are actually script languages written over huge functional libraries. I prefer OOP because i feel I can structure readable and maintainable programs. My view (which is traditional) is that just as we have layers of the brain, we have layers of the computer. The base to interface with the hardware. the second to transfer hardware information into commensurable symbols, and the third to manipulate those commensurable symbols to achieve goals. This makes it possible for vendors to produce slightly different hardware and different operating systems run on that hardware. Just as our brains allow us to function in different groups, in different environments, with different languages.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1547059993 Timestamp) What I love about open source? —“Well then, I can fix it my own damn self!!!”— Lost more than half a day. fking bug in the source after I’ve spent weeks on setting up the site for courses. And the dev acts like a dev… sigh. Meaning he has (understandably) forgotten the entire context of what he wrote, and so I’m combing thru source of three versions of the software, the addon, and the addon that links the addon… And saying … ‘um… here is where the bug is… and that function doesn’t exist, and it’s crashing because that function doesn’t exist’, and even if it did why are you calling the same date using two different methods in the first place? Fixed. sigh….

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1547059993 Timestamp) What I love about open source? —“Well then, I can fix it my own damn self!!!”— Lost more than half a day. fking bug in the source after I’ve spent weeks on setting up the site for courses. And the dev acts like a dev… sigh. Meaning he has (understandably) forgotten the entire context of what he wrote, and so I’m combing thru source of three versions of the software, the addon, and the addon that links the addon… And saying … ‘um… here is where the bug is… and that function doesn’t exist, and it’s crashing because that function doesn’t exist’, and even if it did why are you calling the same date using two different methods in the first place? Fixed. sigh….

  • Curt Doolittle shared a link.

    (FB 1547237031 Timestamp) NEW SITE PROGRESS: PROPERTARIANISM.COM New site is much closer now. The whole Social Platform is working. Most of the body copy is there. A few minor visual tweaks, the ‘About Us’ Page, and then I can fill in the Application (to the institute) and the courses. I’ll add the ‘products’ whenever I get around to it. I’m going to leave it on current hosting for now and experiment with AWS some more. The current hosting is excellent for many reasons,and the cache and search are good. But The AWS responsiveness is insanely good, and so I suspect we’ll move to AWS at some point in the future. Otherwise, we’ll be able to launch soon.

  • Curt Doolittle shared a link.

    (FB 1547237031 Timestamp) NEW SITE PROGRESS: PROPERTARIANISM.COM New site is much closer now. The whole Social Platform is working. Most of the body copy is there. A few minor visual tweaks, the ‘About Us’ Page, and then I can fill in the Application (to the institute) and the courses. I’ll add the ‘products’ whenever I get around to it. I’m going to leave it on current hosting for now and experiment with AWS some more. The current hosting is excellent for many reasons,and the cache and search are good. But The AWS responsiveness is insanely good, and so I suspect we’ll move to AWS at some point in the future. Otherwise, we’ll be able to launch soon.

  • (FB 1547577839 Timestamp) SITE UPDATE (INSTITUTE, BLOG) The Social Media (Collab

    (FB 1547577839 Timestamp) SITE UPDATE (INSTITUTE, BLOG) The Social Media (Collaboration) features are all working now. 1) The Feed = FB’s Home. 2) My Page = FB’s Profile Page 3) My Education = Classes I’m involved in. 4) Everyone(Forum) = FB Group (feed) with attached forum(topics). 5) Course Catalog. You can: 1) Sign up for the mailing list 2) Register to participate in the chit chat (when there IS some) 3) Fill out your profile a bit. Almost There…. 4) (soon) Apply for Membership (taking classes). (Application is just a way of making sure you know that this is real university level courses and that it’s real work, and that you aren’t an antagonist or some such thing…. etc). TO DO: 1) Just a little more marketing blurbs, terms, and other nonsense to add. 2) Then the ‘how to use the site’ videos. 3) Then The Core and Art classes. So we are moving pretty fast now. Hugs all.