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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Stephen Wolfram: One Rule to Ring them All...

Guide:
  • 0:00 Intro 
  • 1:08 Chapter 1: The limits of theoretical physics 
  • 5:50 Chapter 2: A computational understanding of the world 
  • 12:03 Rule 30: a simple program that outputs pure randomness 
  • 15:48 Evolution and machine learning are the same trick 
  • 18:19 What computational irreducibility means for science 
  • 25:00 Chapter 3: A new kind of theory of everything 
  • 31:36 The ruliad: every possible computation, in one object 
  • 35:03 The second law, explained by the limits of our minds 
  • 38:38 Why the universe exists isn't the real question — why we do is 
  • 42:53 Chapter 4: If the universe is a program, what is the meaning of life? 
  • 44:59 Free will as a side effect of computational irreducibility 
  • 48:06 AI as a civilization we're learning to coexist with


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