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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

And I went into full “hands-on CEO” mode, trying to see how to juggle logistics to make things work. Though hopefully in the end everyone who wanted an NKS book got one, no doubt oblivious to the logistical challenges involved in getting it to them. It just didn’t seem possible to get enough books, quickly enough.

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

Stephen Wolfram

One of them is that one can expect to make something equally computationally sophisticated out of all sorts of different kinds of things—whether brain tissue or electronics, or some system in nature. This equivalence has many consequences. And this is effectively where computational irreducibility comes from.

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