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People should be able to separate the merits of the work from the worker but people didn't just randomly decide to not like Wolfram. He is a narcissist of the highest order.

Perhaps he is, but the field isn't worth discounting nonetheless, and he's one of the most prominent researchers of it.

Prominent definitely.

But researcher? Does he actually research anything? He just claims lots of things. He is half-way to being a fiction author, just that he would never acknowledge that.

Maybe one reason for the reactions are that his articles start to smell like Maslow's hammer, where every problem is a nail.

> Cellular automata are so powerful

In what ways?