Stephen Wolfram

What is the core idea?

How do we get down to that without having all this ancillary stuff that is just getting in the way of us understanding what's going on?

When one goes through school, one is often just told, this is true, this is true, this is true.

Well, why is it true?

For him, at least when I knew him, he would always say, but why?

Can we figure out why that's true?

Is it even true?

The thing that was important about his way of thinking, he didn't end up making many mistakes.

And the reason is because everything was built on bedrock in the end.

He just wanted to get down to the bedrock and understand why it would be true for himself.

And I would say that he was not a prolific reader of other things.

He was much more interested in let me figure it out for myself.

And part of the reason for that was, one, because he found that a much more secure way to think, and two, because what he liked was figuring stuff out.

He wasn't really that interested in being a scholar and studying the detailed history and literature of something.

I think he felt about the Manhattan Project.

He was very impressed with Robert Oppenheimer and his leadership of that project.

I think he was proud, actually, to have been involved in something which he saw, I think, as being a, well, it was certainly the big achievement of physics.

It was the thing that, as far as the US government was concerned, put physics on the map.

The whole development of particle physics and all those kinds of things, I certainly view as having been kind of a long thank you from the US government to the physics community for the Manhattan Project.

Yeah, so what does something like ChatGPT do?