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

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Was Von Norman a Distraction From the Real World?

In the early mid twentieth century, a lot of the challenging problems were designed by von norman. His engagement with these areas that led him to think and be in a position to kind of spur computing. He was kind of a godfather of the open source movement. All of this thinking came about because he was, i think, deeply engaged with the real world.

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