[_feus]

and it will be something so trivial and obvious, those who were looking for it will be kicking themselves for missing it

[seanmcdirmid]

It’s a huge refrain that shows up again every 20 years or so. Wolfram wrote a huge book with this premise, but I don’t think it’s gone anywhere even though it’s surely 25 years old by now.

[A_D_E_P_T]

It's arguably ~2500 years old, dating back to the Pythagoreans, who believed that "all is number" and had a very large and complex system of musical rituals.

The modern manifestation is mostly the intellectual product of Konrad Zuse, who wrote "digital physics" in 1969.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics

Wolfram, Tegmark, Bostrom, etc. are mostly downstream of Zuse.

[Kaijo]

Wolfram came to our evolutionary biology department to preach that book about 20 years ago. We all got our heads into cellular automata for a while, but in the end they just don't have the claimed profound explanatory power in real biological systems.

[burnt-resistor]

GEB was similar in a cycle prior. It's cool to dream but the limits of accepted knowledge requires the hard work of assembling data, evidence, and reasoning.

[robin_reala]

You can read it for free at https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/ if you’re interested.

[amelius]

Or someone proves that there is no pattern and they will be kicking themselves for wasting their time searching.

[mensetmanusman]

The experience gained along the journey is more valuable than the result.

[e1ghtSpace]

honestly this would be it, wouldn't it? https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/07fRJGiC51VEHPqYRfNaFjnEA

[lukan]

Did you tried to share a hollywood action movie with us to tell us what exactly?