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Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War
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I Love Von Norman's Autometer Theory
Von norman's theory that a universal constructor is like as fundamental a tool as a universal computer is, something that can construct anything else. I think maybe in another ten years time, we'll be asking the same question again, why didn't anybody realize this stuff was important? We know that early pioneers in ano technology to think about universal constructors of the molecular level. It's kind of dangerous and it's kind of exciting, and who knows where it's going to going to end.
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