A 1.5hr random, nonlinear tawk with Stephen Wolfram dated Feb 19th 2022 on topics ranging from the hyper Ruliad, computational irreducibility, universality, the Principle of Computational Equivalence, undecidability, metamathematics, scientism, multicomputation, to why IQ fails.
I really wanted to ask a lot more questions, but we ran out of time. Hopefully next time!
Chapters/timestamps:
0:00:00 Introductions
0:01:57 My summary
0:07:40 Black holes
0:12:41 Pure motion
0:14:18 Persistence
0:16:32 Computational souls
0:22:31 The hyper Ruliad, or why does the Universe exist?
0:27:39 Computational irreducibility and free will
0:32:44 Universality, the Principle of Computational Equivalence, and undecidability
0:44:09 Metamathematics and Platonism
0:48:45 Undecidability in law and robotics
0:52:39 Scientism and the pandemic
0:57:21 Multicomputation: a new paradigm for science
1:02:14 Multicomputation: evolutionary biology
1:05:42 Multicomputation: P vs NP
1:07:36 Sidenote: distributed computation
1:09:40 Multicomputation: economics
1:21:51 Computational irreducibility and IQ
1:28:37 The end
Links:
https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/
https://www.wolframscience.com/prizes/tm23/
https://rule30prize.org/
https://www.wolframphysics.org/
https://medium.com/tractatus-logico-universalis
