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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Symbolic Expressions and Transformation Rules for Symbolical Expressions

The whole technology stack built around Mathematica is about 40 years old. It's based on the idea of symbolic expressions and transformation rules for symbolic expressions, which was kind of what I originally put into this SMP system back in 1979. And we've been just building this big tower all those years of more and more computational capabilities. This has a potential implication for blockchain, which we haven't fully worked out yet.

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