Oh, well of course that's fine. The government is talking about software that is used for important systems. No hacker will even know about your personal side project.
IMO the crux to getting more exciting competition is to reduce reliability. Reliability leads to predictability which means once a firm platform is established, one team can keep winning. The budget cap reduces reliability because you have to prioritize your resources more and you can't afford the same amount of people so you can't have one person dedicated to one part. I think capping how many people you can have on a team would help too. I like how in f2 there's fewer people per wheel on each pit stop. One person needs to take the wheel off and put the next wheel on. It's slower, but it's more exciting because it's less predictable how the pit stop will go.
I think worldview is all about simulation and maintaining state, it's not really about making associations, but rather maintaining some kind of up to date and imaginary state that you can simulate on top of, to represent the world. I think it needs to be a very dynamic thing which is a pretty different paradigm to the ML training methodology.
Yes, I view these things as foundational to freewill and imagination, but I'm trying to think more low level than that. Simulation facilities imagination and reasoning facilities motivation which facilities free will.
Are those things necessary for intelligence? Well it depends on your definition and everyone has a different definition ranging from reciting information to full blown consciousness. Personally, I don't really care about coming up with a rigid definition for it, it's just a word, I care more about the attributes. I think LLMs are a good knowledge engine and knowledge is a component of intelligence.
We need to focus on smaller winnable races. Unfortunately we can't shortcut our way into the presidential candidates we want, we need to replace the establishment and build a foundation of allies to support it. I know a lot of us are in conservative areas where you can't realistically get new candidates elected locally, but you can still volunteer for races in other parts of the country. If we can shift politics in the house and Senate the presidency will follow. It's hard work but it's possible.
Look up visual programming languages. When you apply a visual metaphor to programming it really is basically just really detailed and complex flow charts.
Didn't say it would be fair or easy, but it's still possible to make progress and the more progress we make the easier it will get. Change doesn't just happen on its own, it's hard work, and I don't see anyone suggesting any easier options.
Foreign language was mandatory for me, but it's pretty hard to maintain language skills since there's not a lot of opportunity to practice it naturally. It's much easier to learn English because so much media is in English globally. I still think it's good to teach, just for the experience of learning how to learn languages.
How is it poison? I've read that your body metabolizes msg better than salt, and msg is more potent meaning you can use less salt if you add a tiny bit of msg.
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