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Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What's Next
On his 65th birthday, Stephen Wolfram details how his 'now or never' thinking has made the last five years some of his most productive. Read about his projects in tech and science.
But along the way computational irreducibility and the ruliad were central elements: limiting the controllability of AIs, allowing for an infinite frontier of invention, and highlighting the inevitable meaninglessness of everything in the absence of human choice. And the challenge is in effect to build a “21st century Euclid”, then Newton, etc.—eventually finding generalizations of things like differential geometry and algebraic topology that answer questions like what 3-dimensional curvature tensors are like, or how we might distinguish local gauge degrees of freedom from spatial ones in a limiting hypergraph. I fully expect that as I investigate these things, I’ll encounter all sorts of “if only” situations—where for example some unpublished note languishing in an archive (or attic) would have changed the course of science if it had seen the light of day long ago.
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