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#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Wolfram Institute?

Wolfram: I was thinking about, okay, so what do we do with complexity? You know, what, what, there are all these people who've, you know, what should happen to that field. It's the bedrock underneath those applications. The question is this kind of meta science question of given these models, what is the core model? Wolfram: We built a very good machine for doing R&D and creating things. And I just applied that machine to the physics project. That's how we did the physics project in a fairly short amount of time - it works for basic science. "I think they're really two ideas, two conceptual ideas that I hadn't really

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