solipsist comments on Wolfram's new "Cloud" initiative - Less Wrong

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Comment author: solipsist 13 November 2013 07:19:44PM *  5 points [-]

I have trouble getting past association biases. Symbolic programming was going to be the Next Big Thing for most of the '80s (it wasn't). Stephen Wolfram invented a field of study so revolutionary it could only be called a New Kind of Science (it isn't). Reading about either sets off vaporware alarms in my mind; reading about the two combined is deafening.

Comment author: solipsist 13 November 2013 07:31:41PM *  3 points [-]

That said, Wolfram is an elegant language with unusually clean libraries written by extremely sharp people. I don't wish the project ill.

Comment author: ChristianKl 14 November 2013 11:17:58AM 0 points [-]

I don't wish the project ill.

If we don't want a AGI in the near future, shouldn't we wish projects like that ill?