The Library

Anyone interested in cellular automata has probably heard of this book. I actually bought it… but not to read (it’s unreadable b/c Wolfram praises himself on every page). I bought it as an artifact because of its huge size (requiring a special binding) and its typesetting—which was also apparently innovative.

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That's amazing, had forgotten it's possible to collect books with no intention to read them. Sounds like a heavy hobby though.

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TBH this is the only book I bought without intending to read it. (It had been ruthlessly mocked by mathematicians as solipsistic claptrap, so I figured it wasn’t worth it.) I did try, once. But the number of times the word “I” appears on each & every page was unbearable.

TIL a new phrase, solipsistic claptrap. GPTed it and sounds like a great way to describe it. And OMG how did he manage to write it like that, let alone get it past an editor.

I don’t think he had an editor. In the end he had no publisher, either (he fired them for lying to him and self-published). I think only he and his employees “edited” the text.