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Scott Aaronson steps on Stephen Wolfram's TOE

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  • An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Computer scienceComputation and complexityMath for programmers

Scott Aaronson critiques Stephen Wolfram's proposed computational Theory of Everything, arguing it lacks predictive power.

Tearing apart Wolfram's "Theory of Everything"

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What people say. Recommended as a concise critique of Stephen Wolfram's computational theory of everything.

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