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Comment by jordan_curve

He made novel contributions to computability theory. The first person to show that one-dimensional cellular automata could be turing-complete.

That being said, he’s very much a crackpot nowadays. Being sane in the past does not imply you will be sane in the future, no matter how significant your list of accomplishments.

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