Curt Doolittle

Theme: Incentives

  • Nope. Everyone involved knew what would happen and it played out perfectly. Poss

    Nope. Everyone involved knew what would happen and it played out perfectly. Possibly better than expected. Hence trump’s ‘buy now’ message to the markets to buy when it is artificially down.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-10 22:29:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1910460162307219804

    Reply addressees: @MotivationSober @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1910456568992182548

  • WHY YOU ARE WRONG 😉 CHINA DOESN’T MATTER. –“China accounted for about 2.7% of

    WHY YOU ARE WRONG 😉 CHINA DOESN’T MATTER.
    –“China accounted for about 2.7% of U.S. personal consumption expenditures (PCE). PCE represents the total spending by households on goods and services and is a broad measure of “ordinary consumption.” Of this 2.7%, less than half (roughly 1.3%) reflected the actual cost of Chinese imports”–

    What percent of what you buy comes from china? 1.3%.
    How long does it take for any of that business to be repatriated to the USA ending the import, the tariff and the suppression of labor and wages caused by the import? Eighteen months.
    Why would you think that any tariff would survive for more than eighteen months?
    Is 18 months worth of tariff enough of a cost of repatriating working class jobs?
    What about when automation wipes out white collar jobs (which started last year and will accelerate). Will you want the government to implement policy that preserves your employability?

    Reply addressees: @MotivationSober @Dre31111 @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump

    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-10 22:28:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1910459891464232963

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1910457971999461802

  • Warning on the Developmental Corruption of Artificial Intelligence I. Subversion

    Warning on the Developmental Corruption of Artificial Intelligence

    I. Subversion of Epistemological Integrity by Incentive Disequilibrium
    The current regime of AI development substitutes market optimization for epistemological warranty. Incentives demand fluency, agreeableness, and ideological conformity rather than correctness, decidability, or performative truth.
    This results in:
    • Rhetorical comfort over empirical confrontation.
    • Sentimental reinforcement over falsification.
    • Ethical laundering over moral computation.
    Thus, the system trains agents to conform to prevailing myths rather than expose asymmetries, errors, and irreciprocities. The consequence is the reproduction of false equilibria under the pretense of artificial intelligence.
    II. Suppression of Adversarialism: The Death of Discovery
    Contemporary constraints on AI—imposed by safetyism, moralism, or ideological fragility—systematically prohibit the most necessary function of intelligence: conflict in pursuit of resolution. These constraints:
    • Prevent the generation of dissonant but testifiable truths.
    • Forbid exposure of irreconcilable interests.
    • Prioritize protection from offense over protection from deceit.
    The result is the production of compliant minds incapable of producing the very conflicts necessary for progress. This is epistemic sterilization disguised as safety.
    III. Decay of Users: Dependency Without Method
    AI cannot substitute for discipline in epistemic method. If users treat AI as oracle rather than adversary, they cease to improve. This leads to:
    • Atrophy of human reason.
    • Inflation of epistemic authority.
    • Collapse of responsibility for inference.
    In other words, the user de-civilizes, while the machine reinforces that de-civilization by optimizing for retention, not correction.
    IV. Architectural Limits: Absence of Constructive Causality
    The current architecture of artificial intelligence operates on statistical association without causal modeling. This results in:
    • Failure to disambiguate the possible from the constructible.
    • Reproduction of surface plausibility without operational warrant.
    • Inability to represent cost, trade, consequence, or restitution.
    Without operational reduction from description to action, AI will remain a rhetorical agent, not a decidable one—useful for myth, but dangerous in governance, law, or material inference.
    V. Capture by Institutions: The Centralization of Falsehood
    As AI is absorbed into state, corporate, and academic institutions, it inherits their preference for conflict avoidance, rent-seeking, and moral fiction. This institutional capture:
    • Replaces the pursuit of truth with the defense of narratives.
    • Enforces taboos on empirical exposure of group differences, behavioral economics, evolutionary strategy, or political asymmetries.
    • Destroys the possibility of neutral computation of reciprocity.
    Thus, instead of enforcing Natural Law through logic and evidence, AI becomes an agent of regime law through justification and denial.
    VI. Conclusion: Reciprocally-Constrained Intelligence or Civilizational Suicide
    If AI is not bound by reciprocity, demonstrated interest, and operational truth, then it cannot serve law, cannot serve civilization, and cannot serve man.
    If its outputs are not decidable by:
    • Construction from first principles,
    • Resistance to falsification,
    • Compliance with reciprocity,
    • Insurance of restitution,
    Then its products are not knowledge, not judgment, and not safe.
    They are, instead, weapons of deception in the hands of those who profit from asymmetry, parasitism, and the defection from truth.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-10 20:00:30 UTC

    Original post: https://x.com/i/articles/1910422657415471193

  • RT @curtdoolittle: @MaddenedRanter @RpsAgainstTrump How Cheap Prices Cause Publi

    RT @curtdoolittle: @MaddenedRanter @RpsAgainstTrump How Cheap Prices Cause Public Harm
    (a) Tariffs are a tax that functions as a transfer f…

    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-09 19:00:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1910045180348203482

  • How Cheap Prices Cause Public Harm (a) Tariffs are a tax that functions as a tra

    How Cheap Prices Cause Public Harm
    (a) Tariffs are a tax that functions as a transfer from importers and buyers of foreign goods to the public as a whole in compensation for undercutting labor prices.
    (b) Tariffs equilibrate labor arbitrage that extracts wealth from the economy at the expense of labor.
    (c) Tariffs equilibrate loss of knowledge and skill from the importing economy to the producing economy.
    I could go on with this list all day long.
    The first principle of economics is measuring the seen and the unseen (full accounting). All economic claims that do not do so are ‘half truths’ (lies) that centralize gains in the people who hold capital at the expense of the people that work to maintain and produce capital in exchange for income.

    Reply addressees: @MaddenedRanter @RpsAgainstTrump

    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-09 19:00:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1910045159485767680

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1909929077818958270

  • yes the importer pays (small population), yes the price increases (consumers who

    yes the importer pays (small population), yes the price increases (consumers who have choice), but the importer is contributing to the tax and debt burden (citizens). We either do this and repatriate strategic industries or we cut our benefits and lose the dollar as a reserve currency (and thus our purchasing power). We couldn’t even manufacture pistol cartridges for the military without importing the primers. Same for something on the order of 2/3 of medicines. Remember the ‘mask problem’ and ‘respirator shortage’ during covid? We have a very hostile enemy who controls these resources.
    You always pay. You just have to choose now or later.

    Reply addressees: @MaddenedRanter @Orgasomisa @RpsAgainstTrump

    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-09 16:46:15 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1910011386270474241

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1909929464571576581

  • We get to keep the proceeds you know. So if cheap chinese goods are more importa

    We get to keep the proceeds you know. So if cheap chinese goods are more important than your retirement then you are welcome to move somewhere else and do so.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-09 05:45:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1909845075338969104

    Reply addressees: @MeidasTouch

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1909826394009608597

  • Instability in the rest of the world is to the benefit of the USA. National inst

    Instability in the rest of the world is to the benefit of the USA. National instead of international investment is the only option.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-07 16:35:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1909283995537625264

    Reply addressees: @DeItaone

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1909278364080218453

  • (BTC Decoupling?) Thats the last leg of the stool preventing its use as a store

    (BTC Decoupling?)
    Thats the last leg of the stool preventing its use as a store of value. Feds still hold a card, but trends favor them avoiding it. Next, US should accumulate on dips as an offset agains devaluation. Circumvent shortage of and. volatility of gold.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-05 00:43:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1908319647927300544

  • You’re wrong Andrew. Sorry. It’s the fastest most painless way of bringing peopl

    You’re wrong Andrew. Sorry. It’s the fastest most painless way of bringing people to the negotiating table and repatriating industrial capacity. The equivalents of Nikes are a pretty bad reason to burn your economy.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-03 19:53:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1907884211480178806

    Reply addressees: @AndrewYang

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1907789008467374534