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think you're grossly misunderstanding what social safety net means - public spending is not the same thing as a safety net. the public healthcare system that countries like Gemrnay have is an example of a social safety net.

THe way current empirical models in ML are evaluated and tested ( benchmark datasets) tell you very little to nothing about cognition and intelligence. Mainly because as you hinted , there doesn't seem to be a convincing and watertight benchmark or model of cognition. LLMs or multi-modal LLMs demonstrating impressive performance on a range of tasks is interesting from certain standpoints.

Human perception of such models is frankly not a reliable measure at all as far as gauging capabilities is concerned. Until there's more progess on the nueroscience/computer science (and an intersection of fields probably) and better understanding of the nature of intelligence, this is likely going to remain an open question.

events with historical significance are far more interesting than these kind of movie/popular references that don't mean much

Well, in itself that doesn't mean much - irregularities and power struggles within indian political paries is routine. Plus given the track record of the law enforcement agencies to arrest/Crack down with an agenda, usually along the lines that suits the political party. Even worse, legislation now provides the police and so on broad power in arresting subjects without allowing a fair trial( or just a trial!) For example under the anti terrorism act. Such legislation is frequently used to arrest on grounds that probably have little to do with their supposed criminal act.

This methodology of enforcement goes back decades way before India got independent, inherited from British Indian authorities. It's even more blatant under the current ruling party.

sorry, what do you mean by "Consciousness regularly/usually claims to have omniscient knowledge of all that is, something which is not supported by physics."? i do not follow what you mean by consciousness claiming to know something - consciousness is not an entity that sense? Your usage of consciousness as an entity doesn't seem to make sense to me.

I don't think personal and family issues are necessarily edge cases. Plus it also depends from where the person is and what the technology industry scene is like there. Nowadays jumping companies is easier and more acceptable (atleast in tech) for sure, but then there's always some uncertainty with respect to interviewing and obtaining offers(and possible stress) in particular when you're past a certain age.

it might be easier, but that doesn't mean all criticism should be ignored.

In the spirit of cliched reductive "feel good" statements of this whole comment section, ignoring criticism is also easier than building something that ends up to be extremely subpar.

This story is about his anti counterfeiting exploits though, which usually requires skills not necessarily related to intellect. he was dutiful and unforgiving which is why he had some level of success in it. Same reasoning applies to his investments tanking, it's a different skillet and far more unpredictable.

For that matter no one's respect really means much however you look at this particular excerpt, not sure what you trying to say with this line of argument

FYI the title stated in the github readme itself is misleading and incomplete.. in the fine print clarifies that this is in polynomial time "in the size of the input text for a fixed number of backreferences in the pattern."