John Von Neumann | The Man From The Future | Ananyo Bhattacharya

[@gabrielefilosofi9228]

This genius I think deserves a movie to let people know about his life and extraordinary achievements. I imagine him in the hospital bed, suffering of his condition, mumbling about the brain functioning, and having many flashbacks on his life and career.

[@MuratUenalan]

Splendid presentation, looking forward to read the book.

[@sebastianaguiarbrunemeier9192]

Looking forward to reading this!

[@koczeka]

He may be the smartest man ever walked this planet IMO. Eugene Wigner, Edward Teller, Leo Szilárd and John von Neumann... The Hungarian aliens of that age all worked in the US.

[@stevehomer3676]

Love the suggestion to set up a reminder for "the man from the future" 😉😁

[@mattmiller4917]

I read the book and found it to be well written. It does a good job covering von Neumann's ideas. On the other hand, the author ignores a number of disturbing incidents from von Neumann's personal life that call into question his personal morality. It furthermore gives kid gloves treatment to von Neumann's sycophantic relation to the American military, and shockingly, the book almost completely ignores the human consequences of the invention of such important things as the atomic bomb and the invention of AI. Ultimately, I found the author's perspective to be anodyne bordering on naive. Unfortunately, there is much more to von Neumann than this book addresses, and a lot of it is pretty disturbing. All of that is absent from this book.

[@mattmiller4917]

Ultimately, this book amounts to hagiography.

[@melancholiac]

Not a good start to the vid with the host calling him John VAN Neumann 🙁