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I had a kinda ‘dazzled by brilliance or baffled by bullshit?’ superposition reaction last year when this first came out, same as with ANKoS... Fodder for a post? “Why we don’t really understand hypergraphs”?
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You get farther than me then. I have no idea what he’s talking about at all. The pictures are cool but my physics stops far short of making sense of what he’s saying.
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I heard wolfram speak in grad school when he released ANKoS. There’s a messianic crackpot vibe to him. It’s a “Bitcoin solves this” maximalism energy. Then it was “1d cellular automata solve this” now it is “hypergraphs solve this.”
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I can easily imagine that... Seems kinda dangerous - he has power and persuasion. I'd eagerly read an eloquent and accessible takedown of this idea!
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Me too. I think people have tried but he just writes such vast volumes of idiosyncratic unfalsifiable stuff, a physicist would have to give up a regular career to track him. Kinda like Taleb, but Taleb has detractors in his iwn weight class or better, like Cosma Shalizi.
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