Yeah that dude can talk. I try listening to him on Alex and he’s a windbag.
Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]
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> bezos, jobs, musk, wolfram One of those things is not like the other lol
Jobs, because he didn’t do it himself? The commonality is they all brought $1b+ ideas to market; they didn’t just have good ideas, but did the hard work necessary to execute on them.
In what world is anything Wolfram has created a $1b+ idea?
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His book "A new kind of science" is quite fascinating and has some interesting ideas about cellular automata. But I couldn't finish it because of how every few pages there is something about how great the author/his ideas are.
This book is perhaps most valuable as an example of why you need an editor.
Unfortunately, it needed a new kind of editor, one which has yet to be discovered, even after all these years.
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Eh he might be right. I would listen to his ideas dispassionately. Many geniuses who were right were ridiculed.
Worlfram's ideas aren't wrong, aside from technical disputes. Anyone can learn a heck of a lot from Wolfram. It's his way of making everything about himself and his plagiarism that put people off. He's Feynman without the charm.
He is no Feynman. Feynman warned us about people like him and this kind of alternative science. No one is saying anything.
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#105I love Stephen Wolfram so much that I may even consider him a role model. I understand the need for the masses to have people ideas that are obviously practical. Stephen Wolfram is more of an explore. And he is documenting phenomena that I don't see any one else doing because everyone else is so teleological. I think we need to give a break to researchers doing this original non teleological research. I don't underst…
He posted a 4hr video on talking about his life. He always comes off with hubris and self-importance… that’s a big turn off.
People write large Biographies & memoirs about their life.
What should it be hubris to talk about your life for 4 hours?
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#106So, story time. I once interviewed Stephen Wolfram for IEEE's software engineering radio and I had a lot of fun doing it and he did to. We ended up running way overtime because he was having fun showing me things with Mathematica. He is a fascinating person, I successfully kept him off talking about his math / physics theories and on the idea of a programming language leading to better thinking and more break-through…
I'm surprised Stephen didn't claim he invented saving files. I used Macsyma before Wolfram and we had front ends that had worksheets. He definitely wasn't the first.
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#107Interview with Stephen Wolfram on his favorite subject. EDIT 1: Maybe I'll update this as I listen, maybe not we'll see. But so far: - Doesn't remember anything he used to talk about with his parents. Doesn't remember any particularly interesting conversations. Doesn't know anything about his parent's political inclinations. - He a brother younger by 10 years. Says he was an "only child for about 10 years". For the r…
When your comment was just the first sentence, it made me laugh out loud after the perfect short delay to comprehend it.
Yeah, some times less is more.
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#108He's arrogant, he doesn't give credits to others. So what? Silly Ad hominem attack. Not listening to him because of this is a mistake, Wolfram is a true genius and, even if "his" ideas aren't fully his, you will probably not hear them with such clarity anywhere else. He is, at a minimum , an amazing explainer like few people I've ever seen.
It's not a mistake to value your time to be worth more than "listening to Stephen Wolfram"
I think all the ad hominem you see in here are from people who waste too many precious hours of their life listening to him. I know I am: I spent weeks as a young teen over NKS when it came out. Wasn't as revelatory as he kept insisting it was. Turned me off of cellular automata.
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He posted a 4hr video on talking about his life. He always comes off with hubris and self-importance… that’s a big turn off.
People write large Biographies & memoirs about their life. What should it be hubris to talk about your life for 4 hours?
But people don't often turn every opportunity they have into an a large autobiography and memoir of their life.