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Thanks for posting this. I'd read it years ago but had lost it. It's excellent and sums up everything that's wrong with SW. I'd love to ask him to respond to t

Thanks for posting this. I'd read it years ago but had lost it. It's excellent and sums up everything that's wrong with SW. I'd love to ask him to respond to that article. He won't.

tzs 14y ago
In fact, someone did ask him and he responded quite reasonably: "A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity" is a great title for something that's written about one ... but I have to admit I didn't get further than that in reading this piece; the title didn't make it seem likely to be very reasoned or reasonable. In a recent blog entry, Wolfram names that one his favorite of the colorful quotes from negative reviews: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/05/living-a-paradigm-shift-looking-back-on-reactions-to-a-new-kind-of-science/ http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/05/living-a-paradigm-shi...