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Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Probability of Von Norman Probes

Theories of game theory are often dismissed as unsavoury scientific elements. But in the case of von norman, he was trying to solve a problem that philosophers had been kicking an for centuries. And without his personality, would you be so interested in game theory? Would e have achieved what he did?

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