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I see it as a better Physics - current Physics as we understand it is messy, continuous, unintuitive, and contradictory. Kinda frustrating for computer science folks.

Game of Life on the other hand is so simple it can be written up in a few lines of code, and still can give rise to endless complexity.

OpenAI actually found these "multimodal neurons" in a result they published a year ago: https://openai.com/blog/multimodal-neurons/

Similar to the so-called "Jennifer Aniston neurons" in humans that activate whenever we see, hear, or read a particular concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_cell

> A general pattern seems to be that Artificial Intelligence is used when first doing some new thing. Then, once the value of doing that thing is established, society will find a way to provide the necessary data in a machine readable format, obviating (and improving on) the AI models.

Fascinating observation. Maybe the real value of AI is bootstrapping solutions to these public goods problems.

According to Jetbrains' own surveys, VS Code is indeed growing in popularity - from 7% of Python developers in 2017, to 29% in 2020, while Pycharm remained at about 33%:

https://www.jetbrains.com/research/python-developers-survey-...

https://www.jetbrains.com/research/python-developers-survey-...

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/python-developers-survey-2019/#...

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/python-developers-survey-2020/#...

Effective Altruism Long-Term Future Fund: https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future

Because I care about the effectiveness of charity, and given some philosophical assumptions, the long-term future of humanity is by far the most important cause.

You can interact with the full model here: https://talktotransformer.com/

The Good Food Institute is working on exactly that:

https://www.gfi.org/donate

They are a non-profit that are advocating and researching clean meat and plant-based alternatives. I recommend this 75 minute interview with it's director if you want to understand why is it such an important and effective cause:

https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/bruce-friedrich-good...

Funny thing is, Einstein did in fact pretty much said it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity#Def...

"When asked by his assistant what his reaction would have been if general relativity had not been confirmed by Eddington and Dyson in 1919, Einstein famously made the quip: "Then I would feel sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct anyway.""

Try doing a fast zoom out from the smallest to the largest. If you do it at just the right speed, it will give you serious goosebumps.

Here's an exceptionally good hypotheses explaining why western educated Muslims tend to be radicalists:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/18b/reason_as_memetic_immune_disorde...