A conversation between Jonathan Gorard and Stephen Wolfram at the Wolfram Summer School 2022

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[TEKRific]

The lovely thing about Stephen is, that when he says "We should probably wrap up soon", usually, that means that the discussion will continue at least an hour more. I like that kind of resolve to refute time constraints. I like these discussions a lot, although at a very high level, since they go over the same things, each iteration clarifies the more esoteric ideas.

[Self-Duality]

It’s always a pleasure to listen to Stephen and Jonathan in deep discussion! 😌💭 Jonathan is especially impressive in his fusion of analytical and creative thinking!

[parker]

I've been waiting for this moment for months!!!

[kostoglotov]

Its Great see Jonathan again and to get updated with his research.

[jonhoneyball]

Pity about the poor sound. Jonathan is too loud and clipping. Stephen’s mic appears to be off and we hear him via Jonathan’s mic.

[KaliFissure]

@Wolfram 🤘🖖. Wonderful to see you both together again. And it feels like Jon you've really had time to settle into your understanding

[senri-]

Love these conversations between Stephen and Jonathan, thank you for sharing :)

[sorinsuciu]

Marvelous to see Jonathan and Stephen talking about CT

[kostoglotov]

I can't wait for Jonathan's forthcoming book.

[tarkajedi]

When the old wolf and the young wolf get together I think there is hope the Wolfram Model will be able to explain the Standard Model and give us the way to build Warp Drives !!!! It usually takes me two or three viewings to understand them but still I think the Wolfram model has so much more discoveries ahead !!! Thank you so much to both men for moving us closer to understanding and discovery!!!

[silberlinie]

People. How can anyone take you seriously if
you don't seem to be able to provide the
audio of the video in at least perfect,
but better in ultra-perfect quality?

[kostoglotov]

Rule 30 shows the difference between chaos and regularity, we live in the transition of the boundary.

[parker]

2:40:00 Jonathan's comment on the "illumination of all computational structures" is a perfect cosplay of Stephen describing things 😂.

[alexwilson]

OMG yes thank the ancestor simulators for granting us this content!!!

[mitchellhayman]

I've noticed that Stephen respects Jonathan as a very smart man. That's a pretty good position in life.

[TheMemesofDestruction]

3:00:08 — “Part time Wizard.” Totally made my day. ☮️ 🧙‍♀️ ❤️ ^.^

[charc]

I'm worried about Stephen here. He doesn't look at ease/looks sad. Does anyone else notice this? Is the dynamic between Stephen and Jonathan ok? Really hope so.
As for this session, it's so great as an observer that Stephen disentangles everything Jonathan says. Without this, I'd be even more lost.
Anyway, thank you gentlemen. You are both absolutely incredible and the fact you are sharing your work on YouTube is a beautiful and generous gift to society.

[StephenPaulKing]

When we consider "all possible interactions" doesn't it make sense that there will be a restriction of the subsets that are mutually consistent?

[consistent]

I suspect the word Jonathan was looking for, describing the ""code as data" paradigm, is homoiconicity.
This (roughly) means that code in a language is represented using data structures, which can be interpreted using the language. Clojure, for example, is homoiconic.

[ClarkPotter]

Anyone else here hypothesize that most of us in the comments section of this video would be good friends irl? ...that we'd be very thankful to know?