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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

But it also highlights how significant our specifics—our particular history, biology, etc.—are. And in biology it shows up as some structure (ribosome, cell, wing, etc.) This broad equivalence is important in being able to make very general scientific statements (like the existence of computational irreducibility).

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

What about systems that adapt or learn? But that email was right before I discovered yet more kinds of computational systems to explore, and before I’d understood applications to biology, and physics, and mathematics, and so on. And I went into full “hands-on CEO” mode, trying to see how to juggle logistics to make things work.

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