Curt Doolittle

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  • I have been teased (abused) in every single meeting this morning for having too

    I have been teased (abused) in every single meeting this morning for having too optimistic a view of mankind – by the people closest to me who know me best.

    Can I please keep a few of my sacred cows? My anglo optimism? My moral presumption?

    lol. Y’all are brutal. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-17 17:47:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1945903236009050431

  • Technically speaking it’s acting like an empire

    Technically speaking it’s acting like an empire.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-17 14:41:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1945856444634693891

  • MOST POOR FOLK ARE WHITE? The majority of people living in poverty in the United

    MOST POOR FOLK ARE WHITE?
    The majority of people living in poverty in the United States are ethnically white, when considering raw numbers. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau (2023), approximately 36.8 million people were living below the poverty line

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-17 14:09:15 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1945848273807581354

  • NATION VS COUNTRY VS FEDERATION VS EMPIRE A nation, country, federation, and emp

    NATION VS COUNTRY VS FEDERATION VS EMPIRE
    A nation, country, federation, and empire are related but distinct concepts in political and social organization. Here’s a clear breakdown:

    Nation: A group of people who share common characteristics like culture, language, history, or

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-17 14:01:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1945846239150612502

  • ours already does, or should at least

    ours already does, or should at least….

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-17 04:51:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1945707901668278514

  • dont be silly. like any sales process investors and acquirers vary in ability ex

    dont be silly. like any sales process investors and acquirers vary in ability expertise and interest. the sale is hard to easy depending upon them.

    we don’t need them to adopt our ideas. that’s silly. but understanding why training AIs with our dataset works is challenging. and it’s hard to invest in what you don’t understand.

    We can certainly explain to the top engineers. But even then they’re not the investors.

    musk would be easy.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-17 04:48:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1945707182626128118

  • Brian, an era of better normative content vs present normative content, when the

    Brian, an era of better normative content vs present normative content, when the problem is non-normativity (truth, reciprocity etc). To evolve LLMs from math and programmatic logic in which closure is a given to reasoning in which closure is not, is a hard problem. However, we can create a baseline (universal) from which we can test variances.
    Now I’ve pinged you before a few times and received no response. And I don’t want to attempt to persuade you. But if you’re struggling and want the answer to the problem we can provide it, and you’re certainly smart enough to get it.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-17 00:07:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1945636356627337434

  • TRYING TO SOLVE THE HARD PROBLEMS OF LLM AI – AND ITS ALWAYS PEOPLE PROBLEMS INS

    TRYING TO SOLVE THE HARD PROBLEMS OF LLM AI – AND ITS ALWAYS PEOPLE PROBLEMS INSTEAD.
    You know, when I retired back in 2012, I explained that I wanted to devote my time to the think tank, and if i started a new company, I’d keep it small – because the personnel conflict made me depressed and tired. Today reminded me of that statement.

    We (my team and I) have solved the problem of hallucination, truth, ethics, morality in LLMs, and as a consequence the costly problem of reasoning.

    It is the result of decades of work. And no one else is even in the ballpark. At least we can’t find anyone.

    But I’m not willing to fight people in order to bring it into being. And I’m not willing to work with a VC or CEO that can’t understand it. I enjoy understanding, explaining, negotiating and deciding. My tolerance for discord and conflict is … well … near zero.

    Rough day.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-16 22:23:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1945610163614093573

  • The nitwittery unable to accept Scott’s position demonstrate why the purity spir

    The nitwittery unable to accept Scott’s position demonstrate why the purity spiraling on the right causes it eternal failure.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-15 14:48:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1945133264206741738

  • No. Beauty Isn’t Relative Or Opinion. While cultural overlays (e.g., preferences

    No. Beauty Isn’t Relative Or Opinion.

    While cultural overlays (e.g., preferences for skin tone or body size) vary, the core elements remain consistent because they’re tied to survival advantages.
    Here’s a breakdown of the key universal components, supported by meta-analyses and cross-cultural data:
    Classical beauty, in an objective, timeless sense detached from cultural opinion or subjective context, boils down to biologically rooted traits that signal genetic fitness, health, and reproductive viability—evolved over hundreds of thousands of years through natural and sexual selection.
    This isn’t about fleeting trends or media narratives but about hardwired human preferences shaped by evolution to favor mates who could produce healthy offspring.
    Evolutionary psychology and genetics provide the “true” foundation here: Attractiveness isn’t arbitrary; it’s a proxy for underlying biological quality, with traits like symmetry, averageness, and proportional harmony consistently emerging as universals across studies, cultures, and eras.
    Research in evolutionary biology shows that certain facial and bodily features are perceived as beautiful because they indicate developmental stability (resistance to environmental stressors like disease or malnutrition) and genetic robustness (low mutation rates, diverse immune genes). These preferences are innate, appearing in infants as young as 3 months who gaze longer at symmetrical faces, and hold across diverse populations, from isolated tribes to modern societies.
    Genetically, classical beauty means traits with high heritability (passed down ~50-80% via genes) that have been positively selected over human evolution, starting from Homo sapiens’ origins ~300,000 years ago. Attractiveness is polygenic—involving thousands of genes—but clusters around those for immunity (e.g., MHC diversity for disease resistance), hormone regulation, and skeletal development.
    In ancestral environments, choosing symmetrical, proportionate partners increased offspring survival rates by 20-30% (e.g., better resistance to famines or infections), leading to these genes proliferating.
    Over time, as humans migrated and adapted, core universals like symmetry remained “true” because they’re fitness indicators, while superficial preferences (e.g., body fat for resource-scarce vs. abundant eras) adapted slightly.
    This evolutionary lens explains why classical ideals (e.g., in Greek philosophy or Renaissance art) mirror these genetics—they codified what was already biologically “true.” Opinions and contexts shift, but the genetic payoff doesn’t: Attractive people still report better health outcomes and higher mating success today.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-15 05:00:47 UTC

    Original post: https://x.com/i/articles/1944985474722095500