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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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Umm the fact that prodigal acquisition of credentials is a line of defense is itself confidence shaking. When people talk about Hawking or Penrose they talk about more specific things like black hole entropy etc.
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Well he’s converted tens of thousands of people over to using his Mathematica software but attracted barely any physicists over to his “new kind of science” approach. And it’s been 40 years. Long lonely road and very few have joined him.
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