Around 1981, Wolfram conducted a computational experiment of running all possible cellular automaton rules to see what behaviors they produced, which led to the discovery of Rule 30.
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“back in 1981 or so uh I tried the obvious computer experiment which was just try running all possible rules of this kind”
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Stephen Wolfram - Where the Computational Paradigm Leads (in Physics, Tech, AI, Biology, Math, ...)— Hertz FoundationCreated: 8/11/2026, 6:42:09 AM
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