5 December 2023
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Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Ananyo Bhattacharya (The Man from the Future)
- Ananyo’s book, The Man from the Future, about game theory inventor and polymath John von Neumann . 0:25
- Early life as a mathematical wunderkind . 6:38
- Von Neumann’s foundational contributions to quantum physics . 10:16
- Was entanglement as “spooky” to von Neumann as it was to Einstein? . 24:39
- Building—and reckoning with—the atomic bomb . 33:46
- Did von Neumann really want to nuke the USSR? . 47:22
- Why was early game theory so zero-sum–focused? . 52:30
- Influence on Turing, the open source movement, and modern computing . 1:05:44
- How brushes with totalitarianism shaped von Neumann’s views . 1:22:27
- Programming pioneer Klára Dán von Neumann . 1:28:56
- The duality of von Neumann’s social life . 1:33:26
- Did von Neumann grok incompleteness before Gödel? . 1:39:58
- Unfinished work comparing computers and the brain . 1:42:45
- Von Neumann’s deathbed conversion: Pascal’s wager or something more? . 1:50:23
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Recorded:Jan 17
Posted:Mar 14, 2023
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