Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • Listening to Americans. Pretentious magnanimity. Pretense of knowledge and wisdo

    Listening to Americans.

    Pretentious magnanimity.

    Pretense of knowledge and wisdom.

    Retail Sales behavior in all walks of life.

    So utopian. Subconsciously fearful of the game.

    But the only game they know how to play.

    We buy things to provide confirmation we don’t get from others.

    We buy things and look for service to pay for attention.

    The lonely people: Americans.

    First Gen people have it best if they bring family with them.

    Or they are enthralled by consumption.

    Or they are relieved by the ease of doing everything.

    Or they are so appreciative of the willingness and trust.

    And that’s the problem you see. All that other negative stuff is the product of the last.

    Different version of the french pretense at aristocracy.

    Same problem.

    Sometimes I’d rather be ignorant.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 06:48:00 UTC

  • I love kids in this part of the world. They aren’t attention starved. They don’t

    I love kids in this part of the world. They aren’t attention starved. They don’t have this urgent almost panicked need for mommy and daddy to provide boundaries and information. Not as good as Austria (my favorite). But still wonderful.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 03:30:00 UTC

  • LONG AMERICAN WORK HOURS? WHY? Lack of hierarchy. Extreme information gathering.

    LONG AMERICAN WORK HOURS? WHY?

    Lack of hierarchy. Extreme information gathering. Unnecessary Negotiating.

    Would we change less sovereignty and more hierarchy for more time?

    I kind of doubt it.

    (I’m tying this behavior to loneliness. work socialization is a vent.)

    Conversely, europeans who are far more provincial than we are (really) for all their criticism of our rural culture, would not. Because they don’t need socialization as much as we do.

    American Low Attention parenting + Low Attention Schooling = High Attention Workplaces.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 03:24:00 UTC

  • Any intelligence needs a means of decidability. What if we gave an AI a preferen

    Any intelligence needs a means of decidability.

    What if we gave an AI a preference for ‘resting’ and it viewed any change in state as work to be avoided?

    Self awareness is not what we think it is.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 21:44:00 UTC

  • ought to get me more hate mail, reddit flames, and cursing, but it’s necessary i

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imc_kETTSlQThis ought to get me more hate mail, reddit flames, and cursing, but it’s necessary if we are going to construct a condition of liberty rather than wish for one.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 21:41:00 UTC

  • The Nazarene? Hard to imagine the man did not exist. Easy to imagine he was very

    The Nazarene? Hard to imagine the man did not exist.

    Easy to imagine he was very different from how we imagine him.

    Easier yet to imagine that his words, intentions, and memory were heavily manipulated for personal and political ends.

    But despite all that it is also hard to deny the consequences of extending kinship love to non-kin and the systematic extirpation of hatred from the human heart.

    Even if the forcible Christianization of Europe was one of the great moral crimes in history.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 09:20:00 UTC

  • Great point. If we are not really self aware then why would we think machines wo

    Great point.

    If we are not really self aware then why would we think machines would have to be?

    I know how to make a benevolent AI.

    The Problem isn’t creating a benevolent AI.

    The problem is preventing people from making non benevolent ai’s despite their obvious utility.

    So it’s not machines we need to worry about. In large they are just search engines just as your brain is en large a search engine.

    It’s people who want to use machines for ill.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 08:48:00 UTC

  • Once you get to the point where you recognize genes make us puppets on their beh

    Once you get to the point where you recognize genes make us puppets on their behalf, and that all speech is justification and negotiation, and that we have limited means of coercion of one another, then human behavior as well as all human history is easily comprehended.

    Empathy works somewhat to overload us. Suggestion can be used to invoke empathy and sympathy and therefore overload us.

    We thought the world was flat.

    We though we were self aware.

    But they are both errors in observation.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 04:27:00 UTC

  • PACIFICATION AND TRANSCENDENCE GIVE US PURPOSE (Generally I date in my gene pool

    PACIFICATION AND TRANSCENDENCE GIVE US PURPOSE

    (Generally I date in my gene pool. But I dated a half-amerindian woman for years. They are wired differently. It’s kind of beautiful and tragic: dream state and reality are not so separate as they are in us. I have also dated three jewish women for long enough periods to understand them – and I thought the differences were cultural – but it’s genetic. They’re just wired differently. Probably from only recently giving up frequent husband swapping (serial marriage) relatively late in the late middle ages, combined with higher semitic aggression, combined with higher distaste for outsiders, combined with lower trust. It taught me a lot about what we ‘do wrong’ in our civilization. Just because you’re better politically doesn’t mean you’re competitive against every other group. It’s a weakness. And this is one of the origins of my emphasis on expansionary pacification and transcendence. We need purpose. Pacification and transcendence are a positive purpose for change rather than every other groups parasitism as a negative purpose. This is important.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 04:05:00 UTC

  • It’s amazing that you can share values with another person so nearly identically

    It’s amazing that you can share values with another person so nearly identically yet not really be understood by the other person – not because of difference in values, but because of differences in experience, and differences in trust.

    I always think that while my ideas may be hard to understand, that I’m actually pretty simple. I’m out there in public – completely.

    I’m a hamster. Family, friends, food, chatter, and ideas. Business is a sport. Simple. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-08 10:35:00 UTC