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  • We’ve done the work. (with excruciating precision) But we won’t have it in an AI

    We’ve done the work. (with excruciating precision) But we won’t have it in an AI (I don’t think) until later this year, given our progress. Though mostly depends on my workload capacity.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-14 20:47:15 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1657850080500621315

    Reply addressees: @GenJones1964 @elonmusk @krassenstein @mattyglesias

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1657847322791780360

  • And yes I know y’all want me to work faster, but I simply can’t. The addition of

    And yes I know y’all want me to work faster, but I simply can’t. The addition of Brandon, Martin, and Brad to helping me every day is about the best I can, we can, do.

    But it’s happening. πŸ˜‰


    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-10 21:04:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1656404783979282432

  • YES WE ARE WORKING ON FORMAL LOGIC OF NATURAL LAW – AND YES WE ARE WORKING TOWAR

    YES WE ARE WORKING ON FORMAL LOGIC OF NATURAL LAW – AND YES WE ARE WORKING TOWARD AN AI
    (non-arbitrary scientific law of decidability independent of context.)

    At this point I can work on the project about three hours a day before I’m too exhausted. As my health continues to improve I see getting back to four to six hours. I don’t see myself returning to my previous ability to work twelve to fourteen hours a day, or even eight – but I keep hope a live. πŸ˜‰

    The team works with me every single day. But this isn’t like writing narratives. It’s a set of verbal proofs (tests). And we have to use language that is as ordinally precise as math is cardinally precise.

    That said, you can see the entire scope of the work at this point – it’s eight volumes. We’re trying to finish the constitution (Law) volume first and most of the innovation is in what we’d call truth, testimony, and crimes facilitated by (political) speech.

    ChatGPT4 *already* knows my work (P-Law) through 2021. I can successfully write text ‘in the style of philosopher and social scientist curt doolittle” if you ask. You will note it’s use of enumerations if you try it. But its logic is useless regardless of prompt we construct.

    LLM’s are broad by shallow. The are terrible at logic at present. Putting my work into an LLM or equivalent requires the AI can perform constructive logic. The direction of LLM’s will (eventually) lead to Markov Chains (causal sequences), Episodal Contexts (contextual limits) and from that point we can add moral (reciprocal) tests. So it is possible to ‘train’ one of the more simple models with our work so that the bias in the model is so strong it won’t fail – just as they teach LLMs “Alignment” (Too often by lying rather than denying unfortunately.)

    There is a strong chance that what we’re doing can be incorporated into a Wolfram Language more easily and then invoked from an LLM. If necessary we can default to our original plan: reliance on the equivalent of a compiler that identifies falsehood and irreciprocity. Though Wolfram Language is both a more structured framework and one less likely to be tampered with than an LLM.

    Until we’ve finished with the descriptive section of the law:
    – Laws of Nature (Physical, Evolutionary),
    – Laws of Man (Cognitive and Behavioral),
    – Laws of Language (Logic, Testimony, Deceit),
    – Natural Law (Cooperation, Conflict),
    – Rule of Law (Decidability, Epistemology)
    – Rights Obligations Inalienations (Display Word Deed)
    Then we can’t train the model becaues it will infer too many false, conflationary, or inflationary definitions and relations from ordinary language.

    Then there are about 130 categories of questions of applied decidability over which humans conflict (norms, traditions, values, laws etc) that it would need to be trained in order to explain not only the causal chain of the category, but how that question is decided.

    Once we’ve trained it on the science, the applied science (decidability) we can train it on “perfect” Government. Which is pretty simple because it is just another applied science of decidability.

    After that we can answer the questions of comparative civilization and such, the ternary logic, and evolutionary computation. But that’s really serving the supernerd community rather than practical application.

    Cheers
    Curt Doolittle
    The Natural Law Institute

    Reply addressees: @fo81830363 @stephen_wolfram @lexfridman


    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-10 21:02:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1656404389458767874

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1656368835736268818

  • (health update) We are progressing quickly with work. The team is doing exceptio

    (health update)
    We are progressing quickly with work. The team is doing exceptionally well and constantly contributing. Our legion of followers are increasing in competency every month. As for my condition, my signature long chains of reasoning and explanatory arcs still returning incrementally. Though still too easily losing context when doing so. Still only strong enough for about six hours a day before needing rest – but feel good during during the whole time. Of those six I’m only able to hold a model in my head for two or three hours before getting tired. But I can produce some content for the other four or so. I’m gradually approaching a mimimal paleo diet, experimentally eliminating, allergens, resulting in mostly meats, eggs, some dairy, and salads. Not sure about present Blood Pressure but feels about right 130/80 instead of 180/200+. Weight is still heaviest I’ve been. Have to be strong enough to lose it. But have done it before multiple times before. BP is probably largely weight at this point. If it was in fact the long-covid that did that to me, it was a heck of a thing.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-20 20:30:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1649148448757673992

  • (health update) We are progressing quickly with work. The team is doing exceptio

    (health update)
    We are progressing quickly with work. The team is doing exceptionally well and constantly contributing. Our legion of followers are increasing in competency every month. As for my condition, my signature long chains of reasoning and explanatory arcs still returning incrementally. Though still too easily losing context when doing so. Still only strong enough for about six hours a day before needing rest – but feel good during during the whole time. Of those six I’m only able to hold a model in my head for two or three hours before getting tired. But I can produce some content for the other four or so. I’m gradually approaching a mimimal paleo diet, experimentally eliminating, allergens, resulting in mostly meats, eggs, some dairy, and salads. Not sure about present Blood Pressure but feels about right 130/80 instead of 180/200+. Weight is still heaviest I’ve been. Have to be strong enough to lose it. But have done it before multiple times before. BP is probably largely weight at this point. If it was in fact the long-covid that did that to me, it was a heck of a thing.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-20 20:30:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1649148448883503192

  • (NLI Team) We’re starting to work on getting an org account for institute fellow

    (NLI Team)
    We’re starting to work on getting an org account for institute fellows. But it will mean you will absolutely positively be required to observe NLI Decorum without exception.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-18 04:14:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1648178062402437123

  • The constitution is the distillation of all the other books. It’s easier to unde

    The constitution is the distillation of all the other books. It’s easier to understand, and something the people desperately want and need. So we switched from completing the science book first to the constitution book. I’d hoped that Martin could take over the philosophy book but that’s not possible.
    So, we’ve laid out the plan and started moving the different content into place, but it’s eight volumes and that’s going to take years for the entire set to come to fruition. πŸ˜‰
    Q: “Why did it take so long Curt?”, A: “Well it’s a huge project and it takes that long… ;)”

    And it was hella hard work. πŸ˜‰

    Reply addressees: @VeritateIn


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-13 12:32:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646491604222353411

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646486387485728774

  • The constitution is the distillation of all the other books. It’s easier to unde

    The constitution is the distillation of all the other books. It’s easier to understand, and something the people desperately want and need. So we switched from completing the science book first to the constitution book. I’d hoped that Martin could take over the philosophy book but that’s not possible.
    So, we’ve laid out the plan and started moving the different content into place, but it’s eight volumes and that’s going to take years for the entire set to come to fruition. πŸ˜‰
    Q: “Why did it take so long Curt?”, A: “Well it’s a huge project and it takes that long… ;)”

    And it was hella hard work. πŸ˜‰


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-13 12:32:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646491604348223491

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646486387485728774

  • (NLI Update) As many of you know, we formed The Institute over ten years ago, ba

    (NLI Update)
    As many of you know, we formed The Institute over ten years ago, back in 2012 in Ukraine. And for a variety of reasons it’s taken until now to repatriate the organization to the USA. I just want to thank Brandon for making it happen. And our lawyer for making it…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-12 14:27:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646158117418287107

  • RESULTS OF 1MONTH OF LONG FORM TWEETS So, about 1k new followers a month. That’s

    RESULTS OF 1MONTH OF LONG FORM TWEETS
    So, about 1k new followers a month.
    That’s far half of pre-12/2020 Twitter.
    It’s far more than Pre-Musk(11/2021) Twitter.

    In order to expand an audience quickly you need insert yourself into other threads with other “networks”. I try not to do that unless I’m running a test on something.

    So I (we) grow pretty organically. Mostly when relatively new people develop an interest and start sharing the tweets.

    IMO long form has allowed me to create content that adds value here on Twitter that was only previously possible on Facebook. So if nothing else happens and I continue to accumulate followers at this rate I’ll be happy.

    I don’t know what the total audience CAN be but it’s got to be nearly as large as FB (20k) but not as large as we had on YT (200k-2M) before the post-election purges of social media.

    The super nerd demographic just isn’t that large here on Twitter. πŸ˜‰

    And I don’t want to be in the position where I have to pander to the audience to build numbers. The truth isn’t always pleasant, and in fact, the reason we need the truth is often precisely because it IS unpleasant.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-01 17:56:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1642224434046984193