I Really Blew It (2020)
Oh my!<p>&quot;Why have I failed? ... The simple answer is that ... I’m too far ahead of my time... I’m a misunderstood genius. ... the world doesn’t yet perceive a need for the ideas I peddle. In 1885, physicists didn’t perceive a need for special relativity, and they would have rejected it out of hand.&quot;<p>Or... you&#x27;re wrong.<p>[In the movie &quot;Matrix&quot;] &quot;Neo has been revived and looks down the hall at the agents and sees the reality of the Matrix: that it is numbers. I see the same thing when I look at the real world.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve been following his work for years, And spoken to people who have been to his &#x27;conference&#x27; (and who I suspect will be rather bemused by the way he described them here!). The general consensus was it&#x27;s horribly self-referential impracticality.<p>There is a reason he hasn&#x27;t made anything practical in 35 years. Since the time when his success at 80s game development made him think it was the wrong thing that caused the success. (Hint: it was not his ad-hoc mathematical models, no matter how much post-doc justification he can ladle on them).<p>I have wondered about him, but sadly this post is rather damning in my eyes.