John von Neumann
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Collaborator on early programmable computers; helped design ENIAC with Turing.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368
Lex Fridman
A brilliant mathematician and polymath, used as an example of peak human intelligence to help visualize the capabilities of a superintelligent AGI.
Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269
Lex Fridman
A Hungarian mathematician and computer scientist, considered a hero for his work in computation, cellular automata, and the Manhattan Project. He envisioned minimal self-replicating objects called Von Neumann constructors.
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