Re: What's So New in a Newfangled Science?

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jun 16 2002 - 20:27:06 MDT


 From
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/weekinreview/16JOHN.html?todaysheadlines>
>
> But for sheer audacity — and intellectual salesmanship — it would be
> hard to beat Stephen Wolfram, whose 1,263-page, self-published
> manifesto, "A New Kind of Science," was holding its own last week atop
> Amazon's best-seller chart, along with "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya
> Sisterhood" and "The Nanny Diaries."

At which point I said: "Bah. Another idiot reporter doing an idiot hatchet
job." and gave up.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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