Curt Doolittle

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  • RT @NoahRevoy: The smarter we are the better we are at justifying our stupid mis

    RT @NoahRevoy: The smarter we are the better we are at justifying our stupid mistakes instead of learning from them.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-06 00:42:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1699221542855430444

  • All behavior is explicable (all behavior is rational response to incentives) for

    All behavior is explicable (all behavior is rational response to incentives) for the actor in the moment. That does not mean it’s optimum over time. So the problem is we can never know enough information to predict behavior without interfering with the behavior. In other words we are informatinoally limited in both economics and physics. This means all science is fundamentally statistical not operational. Which is why ‘math’ has limits.

    Reply addressees: @6_Figure_Invest @skdh

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-06 00:16:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1699214929130065920

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1699074161132655002

  • RT @datepsych: “The majority of violent crimes are perpetrated by a small number

    RT @datepsych: “The majority of violent crimes are perpetrated by a small number of persistent violent offenders, typically males, characte…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-05 23:28:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1699202925321429422

  • WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER ‘HUMAN’? Most likely a least common denominator? Humans var

    WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER ‘HUMAN’?

    Most likely a least common denominator?

    Humans vary significantly by about every seven to ten points of IQ, and that variation is exacerbated by a lack of conscientiousness, excess neuroticism, dark triad personality traits, culture, and social class. At 15 points of difference were are meaningfully different in every capacity. At across 30 points we can barely communicate on the same terms – which is why ‘concepts roll downhill’ so to speak. And we are all living lives that are the products of ‘scribblers’ (like me) and the multitude of random consequences of the harmonics between their ideas.

    So it depends on what you consider human? In most cases, almost everyone considers himself or herself the average (a well-documented cognitive bias), which by the evidence must be false.

    I consider most people barely domesticate animals running with physical, intellectual, emotional, religious and ideological scissors. Evidence is sort of overwhelming, right?

    But as noblesse oblige, I attempt to help everyone I can, even if that help is not understood.

    The only question is, why do so many of your betters refrain from doing the same? Do you know why? Your arrogance in your ignorance.

    So they ‘manage’ you instead with propaganda, false promise, and ideology – the industrialization stories mothers tell their children to get them to behave.

    Reply addressees: @okennedyf1 @KDCoug88 @scrumble_eggs @bortisbased @lauferlaw @elonmusk @alx

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-05 19:10:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1699137926217568256

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1699118300121178193

  • It would benefit mankind. But I think he would struggle to accept because he is

    It would benefit mankind. But I think he would struggle to accept because he is quite unnecessarily insecure at times.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-05 17:12:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1699108362284126649

    Reply addressees: @Lord__Sousa

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1699108146998817080

  • Only to children. And only for personal amusement. Like this personal amusement.

    Only to children. And only for personal amusement. Like this personal amusement.

    Once in a while, we encounter a potential human.
    It’s just infrequent.
    Needles. Haystacks.

    When you study decidability, you study lying. When you study lying, you study language. When you study language, you study neuroscience. When you study neuroscience, you discover the trivial simplicity of the origins of all human behavior as acquisition within the constraints of their reproductive strategy on one hand, and their genetics on the other.

    In the end, it’s just fascinating how people lie and deny and fictionalize and engage in magical thinking in order to convince themselves to have the confidence to face a kaleidic universe over which they have little influence, no control, and because of which they are victims of the circumstances of those with greater ability, agency, and influence. Its no wonder in times of rapid change we see extraordinary spikes in mental illness – and whole generations lost to the throng.

    Social media is the cheapest means of experimenting with an endless supply of willing participants who do little other than involuntarily react to moral outrage when encountering opposing (superior) reproductive strategies, like moths to a flame.

    I find studying the primates, fascinating. Walking around with a flashing sign on their foreheads that says “I want, I want I want..” hoping they bump into a coincidence of wants like fireflies seeking mates in a swarm. Utterly convinced by the narrative the use to navigate time and space that there is more to their computations that just that.

    And you know, counter-signaling Musk, who is about as developed a human as they come, is just … well humorous.

    Reply addressees: @scrumble_eggs @juniorwolf @PhilShapiro999 @DinnertimeDr @lauferlaw @elonmusk @alx

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-05 03:57:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698908079054598144

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698905171911119068

  • RT @LukeWeinhagen: We evolved to recognize deviation from patterns, from expecta

    RT @LukeWeinhagen: We evolved to recognize deviation from patterns, from expectations.

    We exist now because our ancestors were good at it.…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-04 08:04:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698608020253532492

  • So now (a) we know you are offended by my openness to the inequality of people (

    So now (a) we know you are offended by my openness to the inequality of people (b) that you are practicing altruistic punishment to retaliate (c) that you see expression of inequality as power rather than simply fact of differences in ability and competency (d) that you cannot discover a harm other than the demonstration of this fact, (e) that are using altruistic punishment, involuntarily, to assert power you do not have. (f) as such you are trying to defend status you do not have.

    While Nietzsche claimed we all are motivated by the will to power, it was a limitation of his German language. We all have the will to agency over ourselves, over others, over the world, because we all seek to acquire the maximum that we can – until we are within the mouse utopia and die of it. Every word out of our mouths is just negotiation on the fulfillment of wants.

    IN other words, we are just really good at obscuring our exercise of self-interest in pursuit of agency – and that only results in the exercise of power, when it imposes a cost on the demonstrated interests of others.

    Education isn’t a cost. It’s a contribution.

    Reply addressees: @zwholetruth @afoolishwiseman

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-04 02:28:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698523358705459200

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698519496879677794

  • I’m using the Socratic method. Is that toying with you? Or am I trying to assist

    I’m using the Socratic method. Is that toying with you? Or am I trying to assist you in gaining competency over yourself and the world?

    When I was fairly young, about 25, I understood just how dim the vastness of humanity really is – and was horrified. So from that day onward, I tried to help everyone I can at every opportunity, no matter how small, even if it was just to make them feel better. But that’s because it’s possible for me to. So is ‘toying’ with people not educating them? Isn’t every test I run a test of whether I can benefit people or the world? And am I just conscious that I almost everyone runs tests for themselves alone, and I run tests for everyone as well as myself, and take joy in it.

    So, should I, as me, behave as I do? Or should I behave as if I were you and behave as you do?

    Reply addressees: @zwholetruth @afoolishwiseman

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-04 02:02:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698516880846110720

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698513291163607299

  • What do you mean by ‘are’, and ‘toyed with’. are = moral argument toyed with = a

    What do you mean by ‘are’, and ‘toyed with’.
    are = moral argument
    toyed with = abuse
    What percent of human interaction exists to gain information, change the state of the world, obtain validation, or engage in entertainment – vs what is necessary?
    When someone engages in virtue signaling or altruistic punishment in public, then they are voluntarily participating in an exchange with the intent to cause a change in state.
    Are they ‘toying’ with others?
    What’s the difference?

    Reply addressees: @afoolishwiseman @zwholetruth

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-04 00:25:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698492459574046720

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698490040966426881