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The ultimate exaggeration of this would be a grand unified theory of everything. Maybe Stephen Wolfram will write it someday in the form of a cellular automata

• nextaccountic 5y ago
  Wolfram is working on another idea, based on graph rewriting. Which is perhaps like a cellular automata whose rules can create more cells instead of working on a fixed grid, but, at this point it's not "cellular" anymore. Wolfram has an.. issue in that he focuses on qualitative results (he runs simulations, eyeball it and tell something about it), but, I'm pretty excited by this development. https://www.wolframphysics.org/ https://www.wolframphysics.org/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/04/the-wolfram-physics-project-a-one-year-update/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/04/the-wolfram-phys... https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...
  • Nevermark 5y ago
    > Wolfram has an.. issue in that he focuses on qualitative results (he runs simulations, eyeball it and tell something about it), but, I'm pretty excited by this development. That's a good way of describing his weakness! His excitement about some experiment is directly proportional to: 1) the interestingness of some unproven result, 2) that he imagines is proven based on his personal inductive overgeneralization, 3) of a perceived qualitative result, 4) from an actual quantitative experiment, 5) that he post-selected for said interestingness, 6) and that he claims to have discovered first. He has good ideas, but it seems to always be wrapped up in huge amounts of meta hyperbole.