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by ergonaught 971 days ago
Without diminishing Mathematica/WA, have any of his ideas produced tangible, actionable results post-1990?

It's a serious question rather than snark as I am only moderately familiar with his work. I appreciate some of his thoughts (ex: computational irreducibility), but I feel like I've got at least 20 years of asking "So what?" when he publishes. And yet here we are, discussing him, again.