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Re:We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the W... by claytongulick on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:31AM (#30942757)
I've met him twice, personally.

He was very kind, humble and approachable.

So very much smarter than I'll ever be, yet I never once got the feeling he was looking down on me.

Re:We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the W... by qwerty456127 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:52AM (#30942880)
Thank you for sharing this. I always imagined him this way but a confirmation by who met him personally produces a nice feeling. By the way an idea just hit me: Stephen Wolfram probably has a great understanding of how does popular image of a person evolves and lives loosely dependent on their real selves: to me it feels like it's a lot like the cellular automata he described in "A New Kind of Science". We can hardly produce a reliable and concise quantification of popular sentiment surrounding a person but if we could the mechanics would probably be similar.