Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]
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#2Wolfram is insufferable in short form -- imagine listening to him talk for 4 hours!
Re: Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]
#3Wolfram is insufferable in short form -- imagine listening to him talk for 4 hours!
Has Wolfram ever done a short form interview?
Re: Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]
#4Wolfram is insufferable in short form -- imagine listening to him talk for 4 hours!
I didn't know Wolfram was even available in short form.
I bought NKS for fifty bucks twenty years ago because I thought I could form a group around it that would take turns summing up chapters for each other, but unfortunately, if humans who give a f** represent states and the number of f**s a human can give represent colors, we're talking about a 1,0 turing machine here.
Re: Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]
#5Wolfram is insufferable in short form -- imagine listening to him talk for 4 hours!
Eh he might be right. I would listen to his ideas dispassionately. Many geniuses who were right were ridiculed.
Re: Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]
#6I respect the work that he's done and the contributions he's given to humanity but for once I would like to see something by Stephen Wolfram that didn't involve at least 50% of the content being a form of self-aggrandizement.
I find that everything I try to consume from him contains his autobiography interspersed in the giant wall of text. This video is exquisitely cringeworthy.
Re: Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]
#7Wolfram is insufferable in short form -- imagine listening to him talk for 4 hours!
Eh he might be right. I would listen to his ideas dispassionately. Many geniuses who were right were ridiculed.
For every genius who was right and ridiculed, and celebrated accordingly, there are many people who were wrong and ridiculed, and forgotten accordingly.
Re: Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]
#8Wolfram is insufferable in short form -- imagine listening to him talk for 4 hours!
I usually defend him from the inevitable HN accusations of hubris. But four hours is a nope from me. Would be interested in a written summary though.
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#9Somehow people who are most convinced of their genius are the least interesting to me. Contrast with Roger Penrose and you couldn't meet a more humble, interesting and interested conversationalist
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