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Re:Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility by Chris2048 on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:02PM (#25959530)
> I remember the smugness with which Stephen Wolfram is routinely dismissed from having non-consensus views of physics

The guy is disliked for taking too much credit for things, not for "having non-consensus views" - which is sort of the opposite problem.

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Re:Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility by btilly on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:02PM (#25960285)
He is disliked for different things by different people.

See https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-critic... for scientists dismissing his theories of physics.

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Re:Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility by Chris2048 on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:21PM (#25961205)
Maybe, but I was talking about ppl on HN
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Re:Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility by btilly on Friday January 29, 2021 @04:05PM (#25962536)
People on HN are merely a (rather biased) sample of people in the world. Just as people in general can dislike him for different reasons, people on HN do as well.

I respect him for his work in programming. I dislike him for assuming that success makes him correct in whatever theories he comes up with in physics. Particularly when he has failed to produce any testable predictions.

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