Just realized why Wolfram’s stuff leaves me very doubtful though I understand very little of it. It’s got a whole “Bitcoin solves this” messianic vibe around a totalizing lens.
“1d cellular automata solve this”
“hypergraphs solve this”
Fox over hedgehog bias I suppose.
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Here’s a more competent critique than my vague ad hominem vibing.
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Please write more about this. I’ve been thinking along this lines and I want some validation.
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There's something about usefulness here. It may be of more use in the world to be foxy *even in pursuit of a hedhehoggy goal*.
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I don't think the universe can be fully consistent, or it'd violate Godel's incompleteness theorem right?
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