Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • I know my audience has a libertarian and conservative bent, and that among the y

    I know my audience has a libertarian and conservative bent, and that among the younger fellows the digital sphere is more interesting. But you can’t really understand the world through that rather hopeful lens alone.
    Please follow:
    @VelenskiMeir for short, quick, accurate daily updates.
    @MaxStoic at @Stoic_Media for longer, deeper, and more ‘critical’ form – that probably aligns with your intuitions.
    @nobody: I don’t really recommend any of the few people who do deep dives on the financial sector, because most of it’s hype, or noise, not signal. (I watch them anyway but it’s not that important).
    @PeterZeihan for daily updates on the end of the american global free trade order and its intersection with population collapse from over-incorporation of women into the workforce at the expense of children. 😉
    @EconomicsEx for deep dives on understanding economics.
    @CaspianReport for geostrategic takes – absent western bias.
    @WhatifAltHist for historical context – you really can’t understand my work without at least the general knowledge he provides – for free.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-24 14:54:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639279567155130370

  • (We’re engaging in self-deprecating humor. It’s part of trash-talking: a male bo

    (We’re engaging in self-deprecating humor. It’s part of trash-talking: a male bonding ritual. 😉 But we’re all over the place.

    Just off the top of my head:
    Brandon’s Italian
    I’m English
    I think Bryan is English
    Mark is I think German
    Luke is German
    Moritz is German
    Martin is Czech
    Francis is Chinese
    Jacob is European-Egyptian
    Dehan is European-and MENA (can’t remember other than they have better manners than we do. lol)
    Kyrill is Jewish (he’s not on twitter because he’s too respectable. 😉 )

    We need a few Irish so I can claim they aren’t smart enough to learn P-Law. Unfortunately, it’s not true, but I”ll get lots of mileage out of pretending. 😉
    )

    Reply addressees: @FreeTheGoyimNOW @toodarkmark

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-24 13:23:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639256655144669184

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639249564384239619

  • (We’re engaging in self-deprecating humor. It’s part of trash-talking: a male bo

    (We’re engaging in self-deprecating humor. It’s part of trash-talking: a male bonding ritual. 😉 But we’re all over the place.

    Just off the top of my head:
    Brandon’s Italian
    I’m English
    I think Bryan is English
    Mark is I think German
    Luke is German
    Moritz is German
    Martin is Czech
    Francis is Chinese
    Jacob is European-Egyptian
    Dehan is European-and MENA (can’t remember other than they have better manners than we do. lol)
    Kyrill is Jewish (he’s not on twitter because he’s too respectable. 😉 )

    We need a few Irish so I can claim they aren’t smart enough to learn P-Law. Unfortunately, it’s not true, but I”ll get lots of mileage out of pretending. 😉
    )

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-24 13:23:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639256655236849666

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639249564384239619

  • LOSING A BIT OF AI PESSIMISM I’ve been pessimistic about the time until we see v

    LOSING A BIT OF AI PESSIMISM
    I’ve been pessimistic about the time until we see vaguely intelligent AIs. That’s because I understand how the brain does it’s somewhat miraculous job. I felt we’d need to unify the world-model, the langage model, and neuromorphic computing to achieve anything like the human brain.

    However, we are seeing the beginnings of properties emerge from language models that we didn’t think were possible. The new releases this week show problem, cause, and effect, mental modeling, and using tools to change state. And if this continues, that’s ‘the hard problem’ right there. The rest is just ‘more of that’. (Recusion and wayfinding.)

    And at the rate of discover right now, we’ll know within a year whether those beginnings hold promise or are just another frustrating example of the 80/20 rule of computational evolution – in that rapid initial progress belies the hard problems that prevent that last 20%, and where that last 20% provides all of the meaningful value of the system, without which it’s useless.
    #AI

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-24 05:21:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639135279415009280

  • LOSING A BIT OF AI PESSIMISM I’ve been pessimistic about the time until we see v

    LOSING A BIT OF AI PESSIMISM
    I’ve been pessimistic about the time until we see vaguely intelligent AIs. That’s because I understand how the brain does it’s somewhat miraculous job. I felt we’d need to unify the world-model, the langage model, and neuromorphic computing to achieve anything like the human brain.

    However, we are seeing the beginnings of properties emerge from language models that we didn’t think were possible. The new releases this week show problem, cause, and effect, mental modeling, and using tools to change state. And if this continues, that’s ‘the hard problem’ right there. The rest is just ‘more of that’. (Recusion and wayfinding.)

    And at the rate of discover right now, we’ll know within a year whether those beginnings hold promise or are just another frustrating example of the 80/20 rule of computational evolution – in that rapid initial progress belies the hard problems that prevent that last 20%, and where that last 20% provides all of the meaningful value of the system, without which it’s useless.
    #AI

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-24 05:21:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639135279503101955

  • ETHNOGRAPHIC MAPS OF UKRAINIAN PEOPLES I can’t remember where I saw these maps p

    ETHNOGRAPHIC MAPS OF UKRAINIAN PEOPLES
    I can’t remember where I saw these maps posted across Ukraine – I think it was in government buildings and maybe in hotels. This is a map of the 1919 borders of Ukraine. But the one that shows where Ukraine was spoken goes even further… https://t.co/6hB6OMVuyN

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-24 01:10:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639072205186162690

  • STAMFORD’S ALPACA’S UNCENSORED (thank god) I need an uncensored baseline, so we

    STAMFORD’S ALPACA’S UNCENSORED (thank god)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Ua4LkyxRY
    I need an uncensored baseline, so we can teach it P-Method, P-Logic, P-Law, P-Grammars and in particular, use of P-Grammar to identify the method of lying and what’s lied about.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-23 22:48:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639036431216566275

  • SO GOOD One of my favorites. Again, to understand my work, please understand at

    SO GOOD
    One of my favorites.
    Again, to understand my work, please understand at least @whatifalthist’s civilizations videos.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf2PxI1tx5k

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-23 16:40:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1638943886927355904

  • Having spent since the early 90’s on solving the problem of modernity that’s cur

    Having spent since the early 90’s on solving the problem of modernity that’s currently peaking in peak-woke and the coming civil war to decide that conflict, I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that there are those of us who can face these crises with love, humor, and hard work, for the common good, and those who do it with hate, anger, whining, and tantrums because they want that solution their way. I just can’t work with all that negative emotion and sperging and whining. If we know how to solve the problem for the benefit of most if not all, then Victory is simple. Just show up. All the whining is just wanting others to show up for you – cause you’re unworthy and unfit to do so. And so unworthy and unfit for an opinion.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-23 14:05:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1638903589937594370

  • Blade Runner is one of the most profound and deepest works of cinema ever produc

    Blade Runner is one of the most profound and deepest works of cinema ever produced. The two movies, both accidents really, have influenced everything since – almost everything is a derivation.
    But if you ‘get there’ by other means, thats just fine. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-23 13:18:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1638893062649782274

    Reply addressees: @A_E_Winslow

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1638776464303697920