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He comes off as very arrogant. Also, on more than one occasion he's tried to pass off others work as his own. The best of example of this is when he said he inv
by jplusequalt 3y ago
He comes off as very arrogant. Also, on more than one occasion he's tried to pass off others work as his own. The best of example of this is when he said he invented the field of cellular automata.
- FPGAhacker 3y agoDid he really say that? My quick search didn’t turn anything up.
- Suppafly 3y ago> The best of example of this is when he said he invented the field of cellular automata. Source?
- sokoloff 3y agoI don't think that's what he said (nor what he meant nor implied by the things that he actually did say). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39456628 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39456628 (He does come across as arrogant, because he probably is, but his arrogance doesn't extend so far as to include this a claim that he invented something that he’s acknowledged were discussed before his birth.)