[procgen]

There's much to be said!

[seanw444]

It's unfortunate that people seem to be prejudiced against Wolfram at this point, when the field has a lot to explore and learn from. Cellular automata are so powerful, yet so conceptually simple, it wouldn't surprise me if it did have revelations for more fundamental concepts of the universe.

What if the fundamentals of the universe are so simple it'd shock us, we just haven't looked at it from the right perspective yet, and we're over-complicating it?

[slightwinder]

Maybe one reason for the reactions are that his articles start to smell like Maslow's hammer, where every problem is a nail.

[criddell]

> Cellular automata are so powerful

In what ways?

[9283409232]

People should be able to separate the merits of the work from the worker but people didn't just randomly decide to not like Wolfram. He is a narcissist of the highest order.

[seanw444]

Perhaps he is, but the field isn't worth discounting nonetheless, and he's one of the most prominent researchers of it.

[karparov]

Prominent definitely.

But researcher? Does he actually research anything? He just claims lots of things. He is half-way to being a fiction author, just that he would never acknowledge that.