On: Scott Aaronson tears NKS apart [pdf]

[tophat02]

Wolfram is remarkably short-sighted. You'd think that such a smart guy would have realized that spending 1100+ pages blowing is own horn would tend to turn off the very people he hoped to convince.

They say that love is blind, ego must just be plain blinding.

[asciilifeform → tophat02]

> You'd think that such a smart guy would have realized...

This is the best theory I've seen yet to explain his behavior:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/msg/37f51351f5340e58...

It makes a lot of sense, in light of the man's biography.

See this:

http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/

for an informed critic's perspective on the details.