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Another contestant in the competition here. Really great stuff from Casey! I'd strongly recommend all those interested in more updates to join the discord server:

https://discord.gg/6FgWYNjb4N

Competition website: https://scrollprize.org/

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How much of that website is true and how much is fluffing his own project/research? It would be good to have at least some external or independent links on this topic. As it stands it reads more like marketing and less like research, which doesn't mean anything necessarily but does make me skeptical.

I am not in any way qualified to assess the quality of his research as this is completely outside my scope of practice, but I am failing to detect any marketing in what is an interesting open source (and possibly forfeiting or foregoing the rules of the prize) disclosure of something that he believes is a progression of the subject under discussion, and will ultimately lead to further progression; or alternatively lead to dismissal if the methods disclosed turn up nothing of further benefit.

Seems like someone who is pretty into the scientific method, and, more importantly, spirit, to me?

Disclosure: I went to high school with Casey

Don't join discord. There are plenty alternatives that do respect human freedom.

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