John von Neumann
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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Tom Bilyeu
Mathematician who proved the possibility of self-replicating machines, a concept relevant to galactic colonization.
2,3,5, Infinity!
GoogleTalksArchive
A pioneering mathematician and physicist involved with the first electronic digital computer.
Why The AI Doomers Might Be Right - Robert Wright
Chris Williamson
Credited with one of the first explicit discussions of the concept of a technological singularity.
Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
All-In Podcast
A brilliant scientist mentioned as a type of character missing from modern scientific discourse.
So You Want to Understand Quantum Mechanics…
PBS Space Time
Revered mathematician who published a proof seemingly showing that hidden variable explanations for the wave function couldn't work, which contributed to the shelving of pilot wave theory.