Curt Doolittle

Theme: Productivity

  • There *IS* an advantage of a *distribution* of IQs. However, at present levels o

    There *IS* an advantage of a *distribution* of IQs. However, at present levels of knowledge, economy, science, and technology, there is a disadvantage to lower IQ’s. At present that’s anything under 85, but it’s heading toward 90, and in the future that might be 95 or more.

    That said, a highly logical and gifted society *IS* great. Everything is easier as IQ increases – for everyone. From self care, to avoiding harms and accidents, to the reduction of stress, to the length of life, to the creativity in the arts… everything.

    Reply addressees: @ratfacedmouse

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-27 15:30:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1640375860694794240

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1640374424426762245

  • There *IS* an advantage of a *distribution* of IQs. However, at present levels o

    There *IS* an advantage of a *distribution* of IQs. However, at present levels of knowledge, economy, science, and technology, there is a disadvantage to lower IQ’s. At present that’s anything under 85, but it’s heading toward 90, and in the future that might be 95 or more.

    That said, a highly logical and gifted society *IS* great. Everything is easier as IQ increases – for everyone. From self care, to avoiding harms and accidents, to the reduction of stress, to the length of life, to the creativity in the arts… everything.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-27 15:30:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1640375860782940161

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1640374424426762245

  • SC: I just don’t see it. We were at the end of extraction of opportunity from no

    SC:
    I just don’t see it.

    We were at the end of extraction of opportunity from not only the internet, but from smart phones. In fact, we’ve been misdirecting capital away from reforming the 1980s technology that has imprisoned us in the network effect of the desktop-laptop and file systems. Even the browser tech is perpetuating terrible software, and much costlier development that’s only a trade off vs cost of distribution and installation.

    So far the prmary value of openai is in increasing the productivity of spam production – although code improvement is certainly helpful.

    Yes we are in the initial stages, but you can’t, we can’t, extrapolate a curve.

    If your startup biz is threatened by openai, it was never a good business anyway. (And really, most startups aren’t good businesses, and they’ll crash soon under the current correction, just as they bad ones did in 2001.)

    That said, we are fascinated by the rapid progress of what is a simple technology made possible by advancements in processing power. But having been through a sequence of AI winters in my life, and while I see promise arising, the fact that we can produce the equivalent of slightly better search results, but with no logical consistency, is more of a novelty that will result in increases in spam, marketing, and other tribvial content competing for our increasingly scarce and shallow attention.

    And the fact that they’re teaching it to lie under cover of ‘alignment’ only means that the research into telling lies is progressing faster than research into telling the truth with some degree of logical consistency.

    Cheers.
    Sorry to counter-signal but I can’t find a use for openai or any other group’s work so far, other than code completion.

    Reply addressees: @blader

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-26 22:00:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1640111403825602560

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639748399770787841

  • SC: I just don’t see it. We were at the end of extraction of opportunity from no

    SC:
    I just don’t see it.

    We were at the end of extraction of opportunity from not only the internet, but from smart phones. In fact, we’ve been misdirecting capital away from reforming the 1980s technology that has imprisoned us in the network effect of the desktop-laptop and file systems. Even the browser tech is perpetuating terrible software, and much costlier development that’s only a trade off vs cost of distribution and installation.

    So far the prmary value of openai is in increasing the productivity of spam production – although code improvement is certainly helpful.

    Yes we are in the initial stages, but you can’t, we can’t, extrapolate a curve.

    If your startup biz is threatened by openai, it was never a good business anyway. (And really, most startups aren’t good businesses, and they’ll crash soon under the current correction, just as they bad ones did in 2001.)

    That said, we are fascinated by the rapid progress of what is a simple technology made possible by advancements in processing power. But having been through a sequence of AI winters in my life, and while I see promise arising, the fact that we can produce the equivalent of slightly better search results, but with no logical consistency, is more of a novelty that will result in increases in spam, marketing, and other tribvial content competing for our increasingly scarce and shallow attention.

    And the fact that they’re teaching it to lie under cover of ‘alignment’ only means that the research into telling lies is progressing faster than research into telling the truth with some degree of logical consistency.

    Cheers.
    Sorry to counter-signal but I can’t find a use for openai or any other group’s work so far, other than code completion.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-26 22:00:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1640111404005949440

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639748399770787841

  • TIPS The economist in me says: from the server’s perspective it’s opportunity co

    TIPS
    The economist in me says: from the server’s perspective it’s opportunity cost. It’s far, far harder to take orders from, for the kitchen to cook and time, and for the staff to serve, many people on a $1k bill with a high chance of low tip, versus ten groups of two or four people with $100 bills and distribute the risk of all that error, low customer satisfaction, and low tip. So why would anyone want to serve a group that generated $1k? For this reason, many restaurants, especially the best ones, simply add the server’s cost to the bill regardless of what you want. Otherwise no one would wait on you.
    From the management’s perspective and from the staff’s a higher minimum wage puts employment at risk, and the business at risk, because the industry is volatile. This volatility rewards people during prosperity and protects them from bankruptcy in downturns.
    You pay either way. You’re going to pay for that server, the kitchen, the food, the facilities, the rent, the power, the cleaning crew, the spoilage, the insurance, and the taxes, one way or another.

    Reply addressees: @PoliticsScot @stillgray

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-25 14:15:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639632123513511936

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639611673982935045

  • TIPS The economist in me says: from the server’s perspective it’s opportunity co

    TIPS
    The economist in me says: from the server’s perspective it’s opportunity cost. It’s far, far harder to take orders from, for the kitchen to cook and time, and for the staff to serve, many people on a $1k bill with a high chance of low tip, versus ten groups of two or four people with $100 bills and distribute the risk of all that error, low customer satisfaction, and low tip. So why would anyone want to serve a group that generated $1k? For this reason, many restaurants, especially the best ones, simply add the server’s cost to the bill regardless of what you want. Otherwise no one would wait on you.
    From the management’s perspective and from the staff’s a higher minimum wage puts employment at risk, and the business at risk, because the industry is volatile. This volatility rewards people during prosperity and protects them from bankruptcy in downturns.
    You pay either way. You’re going to pay for that server, the kitchen, the food, the facilities, the rent, the power, the cleaning crew, the spoilage, the insurance, and the taxes, one way or another.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-25 14:15:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639632123622457345

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639611673982935045

  • It’s asking a lot. It takes consideration. You have a lot of knowledge. We are n

    It’s asking a lot.
    It takes consideration.
    You have a lot of knowledge.
    We are not, as a team, aware of just how much more advanced we are than the rest of the folk in the world.
    We see ALL the patterns that exist. And we can list them.
    We don’t understand we’re essentially walking around with science in the age of superstition, and wondering why other people don’t understand electromagnetism.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-25 01:10:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639434541675708418

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639423740147802112

  • (I don’t understand this criticism. One of the reasons for american customer ser

    (I don’t understand this criticism. One of the reasons for american customer services is the tipping culture, trains it into all of us both as service providers and customers. And it works. Now, you might say that 20% is too high. And that 10 or 15% is enough. And that’s hard to…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-24 14:41:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639276359217299459

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639155315840286720

  • I know that you probably won’t appreciate this, but I’m absolutely not intereste

    I know that you probably won’t appreciate this, but I’m absolutely not interested in reaching the most people. Instead, only a certain group of people with the potential to produce a meaningful difference in the world. Reaching people who cannot understand, or even if they can will require incentives they dont have, or time and effort we don’t have, is unproductive. So we use the bait for those we wish to catch.

    In a broader context, we can see the radical dumbing down of the common folk by converting from the rigor of the written word to the laxity of the spoken word. Sentence composition alone cuases the organization of thoughts, which accumulates over time in greater cognitive ability.

    And lastly, the possibility of educating the opposition appears to never have been achievable (political bias when divided by sex in the absence of the dominance of the family, is genetic). The possibility of ‘democratic’ solutions appears to have been exhausted. The possibility of legislative solutions appears to have been exhausted. All we have left are the courts, and a revolt with demand for remediation in imitation of the founders.

    I need jurists.

    But thanks for otherwise good advice. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-23 23:11:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639042183796867073

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639038079460691968

  • I know that you probably won’t appreciate this, but I’m absolutely not intereste

    I know that you probably won’t appreciate this, but I’m absolutely not interested in reaching the most people. Instead, only a certain group of people with the potential to produce a meaningful difference in the world. Reaching people who cannot understand, or even if they can will require incentives they dont have, or time and effort we don’t have, is unproductive. So we use the bait for those we wish to catch.

    In a broader context, we can see the radical dumbing down of the common folk by converting from the rigor of the written word to the laxity of the spoken word. Sentence composition alone cuases the organization of thoughts, which accumulates over time in greater cognitive ability.

    And lastly, the possibility of educating the opposition appears to never have been achievable (political bias when divided by sex in the absence of the dominance of the family, is genetic). The possibility of ‘democratic’ solutions appears to have been exhausted. The possibility of legislative solutions appears to have been exhausted. All we have left are the courts, and a revolt with demand for remediation in imitation of the founders.

    I need jurists.

    But thanks for otherwise good advice. 😉

    Reply addressees: @dannysmanifesto

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-23 23:11:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639042183696203779

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639038079460691968