[spoonjim]

I’ve come around on Stephen Wolfram. His puffery essentially hurts nobody besides perhaps those close to him, it’s easy to tune out, while his ambition has produced this really wonderful piece of software.

[mhh__]

Hurts no one except the people he sues for working on his ideas faster than him

[sundarurfriend]

Any examples?

[mhh__]

He sued Matthew Cook to stop him publishing a proof of a conjecture Wolfram made about 110

[Qem]

After this fiasco, I wonder how many of Stephen Wolfram's claimed results are just his employees ideas with true author names filled off.

[DantesKite]

He seems to have a very loving family, having collaborated with his son on various projects quite frequently.

[spoonjim]

People’s public and private personalities have very little correlation.

[DantesKite]

Yes that adage is true, but I don’t think that’s relevant in this context, since that’s not the point I was trying to make.

I was offering a specific counter example to your observation that he was possibly hurting those closest to him.

> His puffery essentially hurts nobody besides perhaps those close to him

I think if he was genuinely hurting the people closest to him, like his family through his brash personality, they wouldn’t want to collaborate with him on long, extended projects. Especially considering how old and intelligent his son is.

[spoonjim]

I wasn't talking about his family, I was talking about his professional contacts.