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Wolfram is remarkably short-sighted. You'd think that such a smart guy would have realized that spending 1100+ pages blowing is own horn would tend to turn off
by tophat02 17y ago
Wolfram is remarkably short-sighted. You'd think that such a smart guy would have realized that spending 1100+ pages blowing is own horn would tend to turn off the very people he hoped to convince.
They say that love is blind, ego must just be plain blinding.
- asciilifeform 17y ago> You'd think that such a smart guy would have realized... This is the best theory I've seen yet to explain his behavior: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/msg/37f51351f5340e58?dmode=source&output=gplain http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/msg/37f51351f5340e58... It makes a lot of sense, in light of the man's biography. See this: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/ http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/ for an informed critic's perspective on the details.
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