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Re:Wolfram: Learning about Innovation from Half a Century of... by kennysoona on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @01:25PM (#43414863)
> I am a computational person, not a scientist, and I think science people find him to be speaking total garbage. That seems a correct assessment to me. His model of the world from physics perspective seems wrong.

I don't think it's that he is speaking garbage, he is basically talking about digital physics which is a real theory being considered and researched, not pseudoscience.

But he doesn't work with the scientific community at all, he just writes his long essays and uses his own terms and ignores anyone else doing similar work. He then gets upset when scientists don't just defer to him.

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Re:Wolfram: Learning about Innovation from Half a Century of... by cubefox on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @02:23PM (#43415581)
Though most academic disciplines have a strong "not invented here" bias. It makes you ignore anything outside your citation bubble or from different fields with somewhat different conventions and terms. Even if the other guys are academics as well.
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