Curt Doolittle

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  • Agreed. It just surprised me. I thought I would have to soften it, and instead I

    Agreed. It just surprised me. I thought I would have to soften it, and instead I’m sensitive to it being too soft.

    The models answer almost identically but a bit differently in tone. o3 is more terse and 4o is more narrative and as such has a bit more breadth. For the average audience I prefer 4o.

    My only concern is that given the argument (response) is so precise it’s a bit long. But it will definitely teach people what we want them to learn.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-08-05 20:18:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1952826643501989993

  • ChatGPT “Miracles” Fascinating. I’m plugging holes in “CurtGPT” (Our Custom Chat

    ChatGPT “Miracles”
    Fascinating. I’m plugging holes in “CurtGPT” (Our Custom ChatGPT) by walking through difficult moral (and therefore legal) questions, and GPT (custom gpt) just asks if the new rule we discovered needs to be added to the system prompt (json file). Then does it.

    Now, as part of the ethical system, I’ve catalogued the 35 or so core questions of law, ethics, and morality over which there is any debate, and walking through them with ChatGPT4o in “CurtGPT”. Plus I’m asking for a more specific output. And I’m kind of floored how well this is going.

    Now, until I publish it and people test it,

    One negative side effect is that this training is not as ‘terse, harsh, and clear’ as our earlier version. But it’s certainly more accessible and educational. And since our mission is ending the industrialization of lying in matters public, this more accessible and expressive form appears to be more compatible with our mission.

    Important Note: Working with math and programming means that training the AI has some means of closure. But otherwise trainers are stuck with normativity during the second period of the industrialization of lying. The first being the abrahamic sequence religions, the second being the marxist sequence pseudoscientific religions. So normativity in training AI’s just reinforces the 20th-21st century industrialization of lying and pseudoscience.

    Our work solves this problem. So we can train AIs in first principles (laws) and it’s actually EASIER to train an AI from our position than it is for every other LLM provider.

    cc:
    @sama

    Source date (UTC): 2025-08-05 18:52:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1952805017414713492

  • I think brad’s comment requires a little context, to grasp the subtlety. 😉 We a

    I think brad’s comment requires a little context, to grasp the subtlety. 😉 We are after all creating decidability, and from decidability we are creating law. And from law and decidability we are creating jurisprudence. But in the broader sense we are deciding by measuring. ;). Within the limits of the law, as long as no harm is done, what you do is not for us to judge.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-08-03 13:21:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1951996744872677568

  • (re: relationship spam in my youtube feed) Simple Version of the Hard Question:

    (re: relationship spam in my youtube feed)
    Simple Version of the Hard Question: (a) all value is subjective – it varies by individual. (b) what value do you bring to a man? (c) the only value you can bring is femininity, appreciation, devotion in time, and loyalty over time – otherwise men are better at everything else. (d) if you don’t understand femininity or why a man would seek it, then you aren’t going to attract one. End of story. Period. You’re welcome. It’s not complicated.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-31 05:59:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1950798487647658291

  • Depending upon willingness to limit reproduction of the lower classes, six to te

    Depending upon willingness to limit reproduction of the lower classes, six to ten generations at most. The principle problem for any polity is the reduction of the number of people below say, 90 IQ, and the raising of the aggregate IQ (neoteny, genetic load) of the population to above 95. That’s very hard for a 75 IQ population but not very hard for a 90-92 population.

    I mean, you get islam as useful because you have a population with an average IQ of 84, meaning more than half of your population is incapable of participation in a modern economy.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-30 18:15:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1950621371383599240

  • How Would You Hunt a Dinosaur? You’d need: 1. A team, with synchronized fire, id

    How Would You Hunt a Dinosaur?
    You’d need:
    1. A team, with synchronized fire, ideally hitting vital zones.
    2. Heavy weaponry, potentially including:
    – .50 cal rifles
    – Autocannons (e.g., 20mm)
    – Grenade launchers
    – Anti-tank weapons (for sauropods or armored species)
    – A means of carrying the necessary ammunition and supplies.
    3. Other Variables
    – Behavior: Predators can be stopped more easily than herbivores in a panic or stampede.
    – Skin and Bone Density: Some dinosaurs had keratinous layers or air-sacs that reduced damage.
    – Vital Targeting: If you can’t reach brain/heart/lungs due to scale or armor, lethality drops significantly.

    Conclusion
    Most standard military rifles would not be sufficient to reliably kill the largest dinosaurs. They could be effective against smaller or medium theropods with well-placed shots.

    For the truly gargantuan or armored ones, you’d need anti-materiel weapons or heavier, up to and including 20mm+ autocannons, missiles, or explosives.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-30 04:41:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1950416526869451253

  • Economics in practice fails where it refuses to measure what is unwanted: extern

    Economics in practice fails where it refuses to measure what is unwanted: externalities, dependencies, moral hazards, and suppressed reciprocity. These failures originate in:
    – 1. The instit utionalization of irreciprocity,
    – 2. The concealment of time and capital consumption,
    – 3. The devaluation of human and social capital,
    – 4. And the aggregation of harm beyond visibility, consent, or repair.
    An economics without negative principles is merely a system of accounting for profitable deceit.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-30 04:08:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1950408051489730832

  • I love my work, our work at the institute. But oddly, the more we master our sub

    I love my work, our work at the institute.
    But oddly, the more we master our subject the more distant we become from the common man and woman, such that our very purpose – increasing trust, cooperation, justice, and quality of life – alienates us, even if only cognitively, from those who we struggle to serve. You don’t imagine that you’ll make that sacrifice when you start your journey. But you make it willingly once you begin serving.

    Parenting a civilization is little different from parenting our children. The problem are just bigger, take longer, and are more challenging to solve. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-28 20:23:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1949928677824946217

  • FYI: It should provide Turing complete governance, even for those outlying cases

    FYI: It should provide Turing complete governance, even for those outlying cases where the decision can only be made by popular consent. (Such as killing: Which killings are permissible and which are not and under what conditions? War, treason, crime, risk (pedophilia), plague, euthanasia, abortion, or even eugenics? They’re all killings. The question is what will the polity tolerate and not.)
    Or put it this way. Of the nearly forty categories of behavior humans contest, we cannot find one it cannot adjudicate and do so correctly.
    In fact, from the books alone, it’s pretty solid at first order reasoning. The training is necessary almost exclusively for edge cases, compound violations, and externalities.
    -hugs. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-28 19:58:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1949922455302328700

  • THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KEEPING UP WITH EVENTS ON EARTH AS VELOCITY INCREASES 😉 At

    THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KEEPING UP WITH EVENTS ON EARTH AS VELOCITY INCREASES 😉

    At rest (0c):
    Surplus = 0. You’re in sync with Earth: you can watch 24h of content per 24h of Earth time.

    At 0.25c:
    Surplus ≈ 0.77 hours/day (~46 minutes/day).
    You’re slowly falling behind, which means even a single channel will always have something new for you.

    At 0.5c:
    Surplus ≈ 1.93 hours/day.
    Now the gap is significant. You accumulate nearly 2 hours/day of backlog per channel.

    At 0.9c:
    Surplus ≈ 10.34 hours/day.
    Earth is now producing more than twice what you can watch per day. Content backlog grows rapidly.

    At 0.99c:
    Surplus > 20 hours/day.
    You only experience ~3.4 hours/day in your frame for every 24h on Earth. The backlog is overwhelming.

    Conclusion:

    The faster you go, the less you can consume compared to Earth’s 24-hour production.
    Therefore, fewer channels are required to ensure an uninterrupted stream of new material.
    At high relativistic velocities, even a single channel becomes an infinite backlog.

    Basically you could easily skip all the commercials. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-26 02:05:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1948927586379366408