The adage isn’t quite complete:
“No plan survives contact with the enemy.”
Extends to:
“No plan survives behavior by the employees.”
Extends to:
“No strategy survives introduction to the market.”
Source date (UTC): 2025-12-03 22:35:32 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1996347599176216639
CASSANDRA’S CURSE AND THE IMPACT OF WOMEN
I say women without children misdirect their instincts until their child-load is high enough to think vaguely rationally as do men, since 2009 at the latest, in greater detail, with diagrams. And of course … floods of criticism. Almost fifteen years later it’s working through the discourse.
What value is there in being early? My work on civilization is early. My work on AI is early.
And yes I know the reason, because Ariella reminds me six times a day: (a) people have to be ready to hear it, and (b) you must say it in terms they can hear.
Another example of why democracies – at least mass democracies – have been unsuccessful except in periods of economic windfalls: usually from resource discovery and exploitation. (Like the continental americas).
This is why I am adamant that rights (defensive) and privileges (offensive) must be earned by demonstration of responsibility for the private AND the common.
This has been the only successful criteria for scaling participation while providing incentives to bear responsibility rather than avoid it.
Source date (UTC): 2025-11-29 17:57:01 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1994827957328908490
Well, that’s not likely possible because there isn’t enough brain volume for the sufficient neural numbers. Dogs are already just neotenous wolves.
Bird brain structure is superior per unit of volume for reasons we understand, but again, even with that organization the brain is too small.
Brain to body volume ratio, and availability of hands constrain most animals.
Crows are freaking scary but they’re also freaking petty. ;). Dogs are almost neurologically perfect for cooperation with man.
Source date (UTC): 2025-11-27 02:30:20 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1993869972414845411
Brian:
Undeniable fact: human emotions are the result of acquisition, retention, use, trade, or consumption of demonstrated interests across the spectrum.
This is computable. Even sex and individual differences are computable. The fact that the industry is populated by people who are from educational silos is the most likely inhibition.
Why? systems that are internally closable are trivial compared to systems that are externally closable. (closure). They’re working hard to solve the trivial problem without solving the hard problem.
Economics thought is more important than physics in determination of constraint, closure, and decidability in any real world model.
It’s also far harder.
It’s also what LLMs can be good at … if we teach it to them.
(Which is what we do.)
Curt Doolittle
Source date (UTC): 2025-11-26 22:46:57 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1993813758184181942
WHICH GAME?
What if exploration is the game for him while monetary returns are the game for you? Which is exactly why you pursue different objectives. All brains seek to maximize successful stimulation. Most successful stimulation is achieved by acquisition. Both of you are seeking to acquire something. But you value different outputs. If in exchange for spending every day researching and improving ideas is his reward, and the practical efforts of commercialization are not, then why do so? Mostly the issue is combining your execution and his ideas. But only if you have a shared goal of profiting from those ideas. That’s how most organizations flourish.
Source date (UTC): 2025-11-26 22:35:02 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1993810758069837908
If you were strapped in chair in a sensory deprivation chamber, or blind and deaf like Hellen Keller, and could only talk to people by microphone and headphones, but were otherwise the equivalent of a brain in a jar, you would be conscious. But absent ‘qualia’. In other words, a brain in a jar might not understand the color red but could have a verbal knowledge of it. Even memorize the color chart. That doesn’t mean you aren’t conscious.
You’re conscious because you can monitor and react to, respond to, and contemplate the stream of information that you are subject to – about the past three seconds. Consciousness is a faculty of enough hierarchical recursive memory (loops), valence that judges them, and the search for homeostasis in time and over time to determine that valence.
It’s not even complicated other than doing it in real time is biologically costly. more than 10x as costly as muscles.
That’s why the degree of consciousness of animals is roughly tue do the number of neurons and their hierarchical organization.
Source date (UTC): 2025-11-21 05:09:39 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1991735740267655330
The brain never ceases activity. When we lose consciousness, the change is not a global shutdown but a gating event: the thalamo-cortical relay reduces or suspends the integration pathways from distributed neocortical circuits into the prefrontal cortex. In effect, the thalamus stops sustaining the recurrent loops necessary for global workspace access. The underlying cortical, subcortical, and brainstem systems continue operating, but without coordinated integration into the frontal cortex, consciousness does not emerge.
Source date (UTC): 2025-11-20 03:26:52 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1991347484325532008
What one cares about, what one worries about, and what one has any reason to care and worry about, is limited by one’s agency to act on what to care and worry about. That’s the rule. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2025-11-18 23:35:37 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1990926900827729976
BTW: FWIW:
–“If a man works an honest job instead of doing crime, he should receive respect regardless of the pay.”–
This is the military ethic of doing one’s duty is sufficient for respect.
Source date (UTC): 2025-11-18 17:44:42 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1990838588511301857
Joyce.
This is false because interpersonally you can judge merit vs cost. Like most female intuition it doesn’t scale up. Conversely as I am sure you’ve experienced, male intuition scales well but doesn’t scale down well. This is why men and women shake their heads at each other’s incompetence outside of their scales.
Women are a disaster in voting, higher education, industrially competitive business, most management, judicial and political office for this reason.
Empathy that suppresses behavioral change,competitive advantage, responsibility, and accountability.
As we see in the younger generations.
Source date (UTC): 2025-11-12 02:39:33 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1988436472396128513