Toward a Fundamental Theory of Physics (Stephen Wolfram) | AI Podcast Clips

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Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist who is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, a company behind Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Language, and the new Wolfram Physics project. He is the author of several books including A New Kind of Science, which on a personal note was one of the most influential books in my journey in computer science and artificial intelligence.

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[mytube]

The most interesting thing on YouTube is watching and listening to an expert inform an interested party.

I used Wolfram Alpha off and on over the years, but I had no idea this guy could explain himself so clearly.

Many compliments to Lex for being so willing to listen without interrupting and for asking questions he actually wants to hear answered.

[david]

Wolfram has a clear perception of the fundamental difference between pure reason and reality. Many theoretical physicists and philosophers dont.

[DinoDudeDillon]

25:30 Wolfram's grin when Lex says, "there's no space and time?" And Wolfram goes, "that's correct"

[imnotnia]

I really admire Dr. Wolfram's dedication to figuring out the truth.

[ougoah]

This is one of the best interviews I've seen with Stephen Wolfram.

[TheMrChugger]

*Says 23 minutes of completely mind-blowing ideas"
- "Now here's where it starts to get interesting"

[MarcusLager]

Stephen Wolfram is apparently known to be one of the most arrogant people in the computing industry, however, I failed to notice that in this absolutely wonderful conversation. Great work Lex! Please invite him over again!

[allether]

my man!!! it's almost like i'm ordering my own episodes into existence. Great work Lex. Keep it up, comrade!

[pdutube]

Feynman and Wolfram had a very interesting relationship, two brilliant minds who have given us so much.

[ryanprice]

This guy is brilliant. Thanks for doing the interview!

[boleg]

The special relativity bit is just brilliant. And everything boils down to be fundamentally just information, nothing else.

[ledgermanager]

i never knew stephen wolfram was such a nice and inspiring guy .
excited about that social thing he is starting.

[dcterr]

Wow, fascinating discussion! I don't yet understand hypergraphs very well, but it's pretty mind-blowing to imagine that the workings of the universe are built on them and that everything we're familiar with, including space and time, are just emergent properties of these hypergraphs. As for searching for the theory of everything, I don't know how we could ever know we've found it, since we're just part of this structure ourselves and as Wolfram said, the only way to check that we've found the right theory would be to just let its run its course. Perhaps intelligence involves the ability to recognize and utilize "pockets of reducibility", and that the key to finding a theory of everything requires that we're able to utilize the right pockets. I hope I'm making sense here! I'm pretty new to all this, but like I said, my mind is being blown by some of these ideas!

[alpers.]

It sounds very soothing to be orthogonal to both determinism and randomness

[paradoxicallyexcellent]

I like how Steven Wolfram's idea of how the universe works is suspiciously close to how the Wolfram language manipulates expressions.

[RyanHellyer]

Ohhh jeeze. This is intense, lol. Thanks for sharing this breakdown of the subject though.

[dr_UiD]

Oh my god, this idea of graph is genius and make so much sense😮

[wolframlorenz]

Sincere congrats to you and your team! You got that elaborated in a way I ever could get my mind around. I bet you're on the right track.

[alexrd]

Casual Sunday.... Watching youtube trying to crack the universe. So awesome that knowledge is just there lying around, waiting to be found by those who seek it...

[JackieDoses]

Stephan Wolfram and Eric Weinstein have both proposed TOE candidates recently and both been on this podcast this month just wondering why Lex didn't ask either of them about the others work?