Comment by elliotto
4 days ago
I'm not at all a rationalist or a defender, but big yud has an epistemology that takes the form of the rationalist sacred text mentioned in the article (the sequences). A lot of it is well thought out, and probably can't be discarded as just coming from science fiction and video games. Yud has a great 4 hour talk with Stephen Wolfram where he holds his own.
Holding one’s own against Stephen Wolfram isn’t exactly the endorsement it might seem.
I'm interested in this perspective, I haven't come across much criticism of Wolfram but I haven't really looked for it much either. Is it because of his theory of everything ruliad stuff?
I really enjoy his blog posts and his work on automata seems to be well respected. I've felt he presents a solid epistemology.