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What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
19•helloplanets•4d ago

Comments

deepsun•1h ago
Amount of "I" and "me" is astonishing.

Didn't find anything on falsifiable criteria -- any new theory should be able, at least in theory, to be tested for being not true.

ForceBru•1h ago
Isn't this his personal blog? The domain name is "stephenwolfram.com", this is his personal website. Of course there will be "I"'s and "me"'s — this website is about him and what he does.

As for falsifiability:

> You have some particular kind of rule. And it looks as if it’s only going to behave in some particular way. But no, eventually you find a case where it does something completely different, and unexpected.

So I guess to falsify a theory about some rule you just have to run the rule long enough to see something the theory doesn't predict.

uwagar•8m ago
he be the trump of his new kinda science world.
SanjayMehta•52m ago
That's his style. It's not just his blog style, it's the same in his book.

https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200207/stephen_wolframs_unfor...

chvid•1h ago
I am struggling to understand what is new here - other than the word ruliad - which to me seems to similar to what we have in theoretical computer science when we talk about languages, sentences, and grammars.
elric•18m ago
It's just Wolfram explaining how he likes stuying things that can be describe by simple rules and how complexity can emerge in spite of (or because of?) the seeming simplicity of those rules. He came up with a word for it, and while I think "ruliology" sounds a bit silly, it does say what's on the tin.
chvid•11m ago
To me it sounds like this stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy

But maybe it is more like fractals and emerging complex systems?

meghanto•53m ago
This looks very exciting but wolfram language being paywalled makes me super sad I can't play around with it
ForceBru•42m ago
The Wolfram Engine (essentially the Wolfram Language interpreter/execution environment) is free: https://www.wolfram.com/engine/. You can download it and run Wolfram code.

Wolfram Mathematica (the Jupyter Notebook-like development environment) is paid, but there are free and open source alternatives like https://github.com/WLJSTeam/wolfram-js-frontend.

> WLJS Notebook ... [is] A lightweight, cross-platform alternative to Mathematica, built using open-source tools and the free Wolfram Engine.

chvid•42m ago
You can play around with this:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/

KnuthIsGod•32m ago
Poor little rich man.

He never really recovered from the ANKOS fiasco.

Hard to take seriously anything that he writes or says.

He was the paradigmatic Wolf Crier.

uwagar•9m ago
he invented the term and so pleased its blowing up.

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