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Why Stephen Wolfram's Research Program Is a Dead End
- sova 6y agoWhile I agree that it is a dead-end in terms of formalisation, I think there are many things worth noting from ANKS: + From small simple beeps and boops we can get orchestrated incomprehensibly large aesthetically pleasing pieces of generated glory. + We can learn about the fundamentals of a game by simply studying the input and the output, without really understanding how the in-between step works. + We can transform data from algorithmic to visual, and try and infer patterns this way. Thus, Wolfram might be intimating that because we can go from the algorithmic to the visual (or sense-able), we can perhaps go backwards, our experience to some sort of algorithm thereof. To me it looks more like the study of the unfoldment of the universe/cosmos, and less about empiricism. Granted, it is based on repeated events, which is the fundamental assumption of Science.