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Nice, but a little scary.
Yep, I noticed that project itself is little bit scary 
Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
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I still think we should not have had off-the-shelf bots readily available until after time warp is fixed.
well, now you have reason to fix it fasterHEH. Touché.
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I worry this may create much risk for the chain.
not that muchIt depends. If a lot of people start bot mining without doing naughty things then it will be actually good news. If someone does a certain combination of naughty things before the network grows enough to make it too expensive, it might be game over for everyone! Prisoners' Dilemma of sorts, with a lot at stake.
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What "chain branching" issue are you referring to?
Well, all thous stales you complained about. I patched client so that requests current chain state from nodes every 10sec. But it is more like a temporary patch. I think there is couple of minor issues, which prevent normal message relaying&sync. Yes, I would agree that this only hits one of the cases where stales tend to happen. There are probably some issues there, but nothing too critical.
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Your map filter is not exactly what I expected to see, but it is short and sweet. I like it. My map selection slows down map generation quite a bit, relatively speaking. I might hybridize the two and see what happens.
It takes ~0.5sec in my solution.
It would be interesting to release just it as a patch to the reference client, for human miners.
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Likely this sort of architecture and approach both will not last much longer, for various reasons.
Yes, it is more like quick and simple solution.I am curious about your approach. Hope to see it in future
Flipper works almost exactly like your bot, except it uses a slightly different map scoring to work on sets of maps and a very simple annealing selection for inputs. TBH the annealing is not even really necessary, for now.