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deepsun 12 hours ago

Amount of "I" and "me" is astonishing.

Didn't find anything on falsifiable criteria -- any new theory should be able, at least in theory, to be tested for being not true.

ForceBru 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Isn't this his personal blog? The domain name is "stephenwolfram.com", this is his personal website. Of course there will be "I"'s and "me"'s — this website is about him and what he does.

As for falsifiability:

> You have some particular kind of rule. And it looks as if it’s only going to behave in some particular way. But no, eventually you find a case where it does something completely different, and unexpected.

So I guess to falsify a theory about some rule you just have to run the rule long enough to see something the theory doesn't predict.

uwagar 11 hours ago | parent [-]

he be the trump of his new kinda science world.

JadeNB 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I think the comparison is unfair. Wolfram is endowed with a very generous sense of his own self worth, but, other than the victims of his litigation, I'm not aware that he's hurting anybody.

andyjohnson0 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sure, but everyone always says that. What do you think of what he wrote about?

dist-epoch 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some things, like the foundations of mathematics, are not falsifiable.

You judge them by how useful they are.

Ruliology is a bit like that.

SanjayMehta 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's his style. It's not just his blog style, it's the same in his book.

https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200207/stephen_wolframs_unfor...