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by imglorp 2289 days ago
About NKS, granted there's a bunch of self promotion and inflated urgency in there. But I feel like there's a useful work, cataloging in exhaustive detail a large number of systems and patterns which are built into the number system and nature.

Is there anything actually wrong with NKS aside from the tone?
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riffraff 2289 days ago
I think there is consensus the tone is what's mostly wrong with the book. Amazon seems to have removed it, but "a new kind of review"[0] was absolutely hilarious and kind of accurate :)

[0] http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wclark/ANKOS_humor.html 3rd from the top

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JoeSmithson 2289 days ago
I've actually never read NKS but I did read this review of it which has some criticism - http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/

> "As the saying goes, there is much here that is new and true, but what is true is not new, and what is new is not true; and some of it is even old and false, or at least utterly unsupported."

The author seems fairly knowledgeable on the subject of cellular automata.

EDIT: I see this has been posted elsewhere in the comments

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