Thread by @curtdoolittle

Elon (all)
I have been working on the Everything App since I observed why MSFT was failing at the architecture of MS Vista OS. That analysis, plus a prediction of the 'distributed employee' future, drove my design of Oversing (UI) + Runcible (Backend).
1/n @elonmusk

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1577428272056389633

But when I combined the UI/Backend with my work on 'the methods by which humans avoid truth (lying)', I understood that an Everything (universal) App for desktop, tablet, and phone etc, that solved the negatives of social media 'regulation' as well, was possible.
2/n @elonmusk

The problem, of course, by being ahead of the curve, was using a business model that was fundable long enough to produce this rather large set of functionality -b/c the investment horizon of capital investors is shorter than the R&D horizon of producing that tech.
3/n @elonmusk

However, spending just over $2M, developing in Ukraine with the low UA developer costs, we succeeded in building a fully functional but beta-quality version of the product, sufficient to convince investors of our competency.
4/n @elonmusk

But competency we still required an understanding of the market necessity - we were still ahead of the curve.
@elonmusk has explained politically, and #WeChat has at least partly, explained economically, why this Everything (universal) app is now necessary and viable.
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Oddly, my original ambition was to simply replace #MSFT and the #MSFT stack. Because it's the network effect of this entrenched technology that is, (like the java interpreter of the browser) slowing technological development and maintaining the high costs of tech.
6/n @elonmusk

Even more oddly, my academic work on the logic of economics law, and testimony, led to the bayesian means of distinguishing between the three categories of online expression that even the founder of online filtering hadn't yet achieved.
7/n @elonmusk

This ability to disambiguate speech not only into categories (venting, sophistry, content), but into political bias, ethics, morality, and testifiability (truth), meant that we had merged the personal AND commercial AND social AND political spheres in one platform.
8/n @elonmusk

For the above eight tweets to make sense, might require that we all grasp, that all software platforms do approximately the same thing: walk sets of arbitrary objects through workflows of increasing complexity, using task-specific UIs.
9/n @elonmusk

It might be obvious that these UI's are customizable but the data behind is generalizable. But it might not be obvious just how generalizable is the relationship between these objects and their UI's into an Everything UI, backend and 'AI interpreter' of content.
10/n @elonmusk

And it might not be obvious, just how IMPORTANT the ability to explain any individual or sequence of comments, tweets, posts, articles, books, by categorizing all or parts of them as emoting, sophistry, or content, ...
11/n @elonmusk

.. and whether that content favors one group's moral strategy or another's. And worse, it may be uncomfortable to realize that our differences are simply expressions of biological differences in moral sensitivity given the differences in male-female reproduction...
12/n @elonmusk

... and that all of us hold moral intuitions somewhere on the male-to-neutral-to-female spectrum. And all of our differences in methods of arguing, loading, framing, lying, denying are reducible to a distribution of sex differences in moral intuition and cognition.
13/n @elonmusk

So while the Everything App, with freedom of speech 'absolutism', with 'weights and measures' of the truth, bias, and ethics that speech, will solve the problem of not only of assisting us in preserving democratic participatory government. ... (here it comes...)
14/n @elonmusk

... We will, as a consequence, be confronted with the same hostility facing Socrates, Galileo, and Darwin: that the principle axis of human evolution, the principle axis of human cooperation, is sex differences, creating a division of labor of between the sexes ...
15/n @elonmusk

... covering the spectrum of feminine empathic now, neutral soon, and masculine systematizing then. And the search for reciprocity, at scale of social, economic, and political, is the only determinant of 'good, right, just, moral, survivable, evolutionary'.
16/n @elonmusk

And the consequence of the overwhelming evidence of that knowledge will be disruptive in turn - shifting the unarticulated conflict espressed in outrage into an articulated conflict expressed in science.
17/n @elonmusk

Why? Because it will demonstrate that the natural law of self-determination by self-determined means, by sovereignty and reciprocity, limiting us to voluntary cooperation, by obligations, rights, inalienations, though insufficiently embodied in the constitution ...
18/n @elonmusk

... is not only the closest to an optimum science of cooperation at scale that we have yet discovered, but that we ever CAN discover. (There are about eight holes in it limiting it from conversion from philosophy to science.)
19/n @elonmusk

And that the entire left-program, from the Abrahamic religions of the old world to the marxist-neomarxist-pomo-woke religion of the new, is but a war on calculation: reciprocity, self-determination, evolution, and man.
20/n @elonmusk.

The left conducts nothing other than war on western civilization that invented individual sovereignty. Because the gains of western civ are the result of maximization of evolutionary computation producing rates of evolution we capture as productivity and 'choice'.
21/n @elonmusk

That does not mean the 'right' is right. It means only that incremental reciprocal exchange 'is right'. It means 'neutral is right'. And that left and right explore and limit one another: a necessity of evolutionary computation.
22/n @elonmusk

So are we ready for that discussion? Because that is the outcome of an app that solves the problem of truthful cooperative political discourse: solving the fundamental problem not its marginal difficulties.

In summary, yes universal architecture, ...
23/n @elonmusk

... for a universal application, for universal discourse, facilitating universal cooperation, using a universal system of weights and measures, to produce universal compromises by reciprocity under universal truths - is not only possible but ... easy.
24/24 @elonmusk
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25/25 But, so the big question is, if we create the "Everything App" that will facilitate the ability for we mere humans do conduct truthful, reciprocal, proportional, ethical, moral, and even virtuous exchanges rather than lie in favor of our extremes, will that help us? ;)

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