Curt Doolittle

Form: Diary

  • (diary, working) Working with the team, I’m floored almost daily at their abilit

    (diary, working)
    Working with the team, I’m floored almost daily at their ability to understand and apply the work – as well as help me produce it. These guys are amazing. And while they spend most of the time doing something else, and just answer questions or let me run ideas by them as I work, the investment of their time is just priceless. And I feel guilty every day that they sit through it with me.

    There are only so many ‘very hard’ parts of the work. The natural law and the logic of rights and obligations require the most detail. Thankfully I won’t have to explain the grammars and the logics in the Constitution. We only have to lay out the criteria for strictly constructed legal form.

    Personally, doing this work together has helped me understand that they’re just as good as I am at the reasoning, and it’s only that I can hold larger models in my head than others. That’s probably always been my advantage and I didn’t really understand it. It’s not like mathematicians who can hold strong discreet relationships in working memory. It’s more akin to very very large numbers of subtle relations.

    Now I can still only work about three hours still before I get tired. I used to be able to do this for days at a time. But I’m clearly improving slowly. Hopefully I’ll continue to improve. Because if this keeps up we’ll finish it on time.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-04 02:16:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1653946706038276102

  • (diary, working) Working with the team, I’m floored almost daily at their abilit

    (diary, working)
    Working with the team, I’m floored almost daily at their ability to understand and apply the work – as well as help me produce it. These guys are amazing. And while they spend most of the time doing something else, and just answer questions or let me run ideas by them as I work, the investment of their time is just priceless. And I feel guilty every day that they sit through it with me.

    There are only so many ‘very hard’ parts of the work. The natural law and the logic of rights and obligations require the most detail. Thankfully I won’t have to explain the grammars and the logics in the Constitution. We only have to lay out the criteria for strictly constructed legal form.

    Personally, doing this work together has helped me understand that they’re just as good as I am at the reasoning, and it’s only that I can hold larger models in my head than others. That’s probably always been my advantage and I didn’t really understand it. It’s not like mathematicians who can hold strong discreet relationships in working memory. It’s more akin to very very large numbers of subtle relations.

    Now I can still only work about three hours still before I get tired. I used to be able to do this for days at a time. But I’m clearly improving slowly. Hopefully I’ll continue to improve. Because if this keeps up we’ll finish it on time.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-04 02:16:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1653946706235478018

  • (reminiscence) I miss Danny Fredrick. 🙁 A natural rights libertarian. UK. Hayek

    (reminiscence)
    I miss Danny Fredrick. 🙁

    https://philpeople.org/profiles/danny-frederick
    A natural rights libertarian. UK. Hayek and Popper’s critical rationalism.

    When we still had hope for the future of freedom, liberty, reason, and meritocracy.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-03 12:26:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1653737690544701443

  • Two bouts of cancer and a final severe illness rapidly ended my interest in grea

    Two bouts of cancer and a final severe illness rapidly ended my interest in greater or even maintaining wealth vaporized rather quickly in favor of doing nothing other than what makes me happy.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-29 14:26:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1652318548511825925

    Reply addressees: @StephenThomasHC

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1652315750252544000

  • (math diary) Michael’s being a bit of a genius in DMs, explaining first principl

    (math diary)
    Michael’s being a bit of a genius in DMs, explaining first principles of perception, disambiguation, and memory in mathematical terms.

    Meanwhile my inner autist experiences an addiction response to the elegance of the order. My biz partner Jim Beebe (a…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-09 14:59:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645078868603162626

  • (math diary) Michael’s being a bit of a genius in DMs, explaining first principl

    (math diary)
    Michael’s being a bit of a genius in DMs, explaining first principles of perception, disambiguation, and memory in mathematical terms.

    Meanwhile my inner autist experiences an addiction response to the elegance of the order. My biz partner Jim Beebe (a mathematician) would sometimes avoid studying mathematics for the same reason: for some of us it’s heroin. 😉

    I had an early discomfort with math and logic sensing something was wrong (it was, with both). Michael on his own, or the two of us together, I hope will work on the subject – though I doubt I’ll live long enough, and I’d be surprised if a reformation of math doesn’t finally happen after the first attempt in the first third of the 20th century. (Blame the failure on cantor, einstein, and bohr, as well as the entire philosphical community).

    The problem with the foundations of math, logic, and physics is the same: idealism.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-09 14:59:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645078868494016516

  • I miss L’viv. I want to come home… 🙁

    I miss L’viv. I want to come home… 🙁

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-03 22:54:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1643024128973189121

    Reply addressees: @verba_nastya

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1638889798612942849

  • (body counts) I remember when Amanda asked me for my body count. I made a list.

    (body counts)
    I remember when Amanda asked me for my body count. I made a list. I could remember almost every name. It was in the twenties, and I had to wrack my memory back to high school to do it.
    (I never ask women. I generally figure it out. But I never ask.)

    Why the 20s? Because I have nothing but long-term relationships and failed attempts at long-term relationships. And that was a lifetime number at age 50. I wouldn’t even date someone without the intention of a long term relationship. Just don’t understand why anyone needs attention so badly that they want to swap bodily fluids for exercise. It’s a ‘bad investment’.
    Maybe I was too focused on meaningful things, like knowledge, career, relationships, (money), wealth, achievement. In other words ‘meaning’.

    So, body counts? IMO it means you’re shallow and vapid. Besides, I’ve hired and spent a lot of time with high earners, especially in sales, and all those that have high body counts cheat and ruin their lives. Now, I’ve got a few of those male friends that view it as a video game and try to get into the thousands. And then they get ‘struck’ by some woman and turn into devoted husbands. But those aren’t common.

    IMO it’s the absence of meaning that drives us to hyperconsumption of base instincts.

    Why am I even talking about this? Partly I’m sort of disgusted on one hand, awed at the decline in morals, and exasperated at the destruction of marriage and the family that’s resulted. But if the data continues to play out, what’ happening is that ‘bad people’ are selecting themselves out of the gene pool by ‘one child policy’. And so it’s a race between educated women with one child, and trash with one child for who wins the reproductive lottery. 🙁

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-03 20:42:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1642991031959318529

  • (body counts) I remember when Amanda asked me for my body count. I made a list.

    (body counts)
    I remember when Amanda asked me for my body count. I made a list. I could remember almost every name. It was in the twenties, and I had to wrack my memory back to high school to do it.
    (I never ask women. I generally figure it out. But I never ask.)

    Why the 20s? Because I have nothing but long-term relationships and failed attempts at long-term relationships. And that was a lifetime number at age 50. I wouldn’t even date someone without the intention of a long term relationship. Just don’t understand why anyone needs attention so badly that they want to swap bodily fluids for exercise. It’s a ‘bad investment’.
    Maybe I was too focused on meaningful things, like knowledge, career, relationships, (money), wealth, achievement. In other words ‘meaning’.

    So, body counts? IMO it means you’re shallow and vapid. Besides, I’ve hired and spent a lot of time with high earners, especially in sales, and all those that have high body counts cheat and ruin their lives. Now, I’ve got a few of those male friends that view it as a video game and try to get into the thousands. And then they get ‘struck’ by some woman and turn into devoted husbands. But those aren’t common.

    IMO it’s the absence of meaning that drives us to hyperconsumption of base instincts.

    Why am I even talking about this? Partly I’m sort of disgusted on one hand, awed at the decline in morals, and exasperated at the destruction of marriage and the family that’s resulted. But if the data continues to play out, what’ happening is that ‘bad people’ are selecting themselves out of the gene pool by ‘one child policy’. And so it’s a race between educated women with one child, and trash with one child for who wins the reproductive lottery. 🙁

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-03 20:42:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1642991031779053568

  • (I miss Ukraine. I miss L’viv. I miss Kyiv. I miss the nonsense at Boryspol Airp

    (I miss Ukraine. I miss L’viv. I miss Kyiv. I miss the nonsense at Boryspol Airport. I miss the insane government bureaucracy. I miss the fragile banking system. I miss catching the flu on the subway. I miss the train. I miss the unfinished bridge, the potholes, the traffic. I even miss living in a khrushchevka with neighbors. I miss the street-dogs. I miss my favorite coffee shops. I miss the food. I miss cooking shaslik in the park. I miss the people. I miss my friends. I have had nothing but unpleasantness since returning to the states. Everything works here in the states – EXCEPT people, culture, and politics. We live in an empire of many countries fighting to dominate others with their different cultures, and it’s resulting in a contentious environment of hate.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-30 16:29:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1641477835939368963