Just struck me that wolfram’s notion of the ruliad is kinda analogous somehow to deep learning models. Both are “all possible rules” type abstract hyperobjects
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Wolfram’s epitaph is going to be “almost significant, mostly harmless”
Weirdly unimpactful career outside of Mathematica, given the sheer energy he’s personally sunk into automata theology, not to mention money and lawsuits. You’d think he’d have more to show for it.
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Either that or he’s the First Simulator
Or a simulation of the First Simulator within a hyper graph ruliad simulation we’re all inside
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The reason he’s not more significant is the reason he’s significant.
Everyone is trained to see the world through rules and equations that can be written on a chalkboard.
He describes the world as algorithms. We need to be retrained from the beginning to operate that way.
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This flatters his conceits a little too much. Plenty of people see the world in algorithmic ways. There's a whole field known as digital physics which he very ungenerously refuses to credit. Quantum computing is algorithmic physics. ...
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