over last year, just in US
Averages:
JVN 9
Turing 57
Schrodinger 61
Oppenheimer 26
Nash 22
over last year, just in US
Averages:
JVN 9
Turing 57
Schrodinger 61
Oppenheimer 26
Nash 22
restricted to the US
Oppenheimer’s popularity increases in recent years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
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The first to use the concept of a “singularity” in the technological context was John von Neumann.[4] Stanislaw Ulam reports a discussion with von Neumann “centered on the accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue”.[5] Subsequent authors have echoed this viewpoint.[3][6]
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At the link below are a selection of good quotes from
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann Hardcover by Ananyo Bhattacharya (Author)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FIM00rGx28S0Z6cQiNhwAm8otpdphRttdabA03hPWgY/edit
(public doc: Selected-Good-Quotes-from-Man-from-the-Future–jvn0mg)
Further quotes I liked are at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1noMiAy2maVVyPh94rEzEZbCwR6TPjZ2T223Hm5ylDZ0/edit
(a private doc: Full-List-of-Good-quotes-from-Man-from-the-Future–jvn0mg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
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While employed by the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government
decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War,
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