I don’t see many generous readings of Wolframs writings. HN is very dismissive of almost everything of his that ever makes the front page. This sounds like the

I don’t see many generous readings of Wolframs writings. HN is very dismissive of almost everything of his that ever makes the front page. This sounds like the scepticism here is unfair. You need to consider that if somebody establishes a reputation for using their reasonably well-known (and justifiably respected) position as an academic software developer to publicise dubious and grandiose scientific theories to gullible techies and pop-sci readers, rather than submitting them to be evaluated by experts through the normal scientific process, it seems pretty miniscule beer in comparison to have some pushback in threads like this.