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psychoslavetoday at 11:08 AM2 repliesview on HN

Come on, everybody knows it's philosophers all the way down. It's even in the title: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_All_the_Way_Down

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...

https://xefer.com/2011/05/wikipedia

https://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-2013/projects2013/cs2...


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KineticLensmantoday at 3:47 PM

Actually, the bottom layer from which God created the cosmos was originally Computer Science. Where else do you think all the chaos came from?

gnfargbltoday at 11:17 AM

And that's my point; it's okay to create new names for sub-disciplines, as Wolfram is doing here. Because that's what we have been doing since the days of Aristotle.

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