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Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War
Dwarkesh Podcast
Was Von Neman a Cold War Hawk?
A lot of his formative yearss, as a scientist or as a mathematician wese, spent in germany. And he ored a kind of inter war germany, at least in the late twenties. For him, it was this perfect intellectual climate. But so he was moreore alores to authoritarianism than many other intellectuals who were willing to give communism a chance. Whereas von norman had seen that essentially, it became a kind of authoritarian regime. He was deeply suspicious of alin alin for the very same reason from day one.
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