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by DataDive 613 days ago
Without even visiting the page I can predict what this writing will be about with uncanny accuracy.

1. Big words at the start - pretending to hack at a problem so big that just swinging the axe is a major undertaking

2. The prose slowly drifts to make less and less sense; words have no practical meaning anymore.

3. Simplistic images galore. Various plots via cellular automata and "pretty" images show things that have nothing to do with the topic and are only distant metaphors at best. Yet these images are the proof that it all "works."

4. A nothingburger by the end. Leaves you wondering, why did I read all this?

Every essay by Wolfram is the same.

1 comments

You forgot ample use of “computational irreducibility”, and “like I showed 30 years ago (proceeds to not have shown this)” but yes. Very much this.