I picked up The Maniac after Austin Kleon called it one of the best things he read in 2024. It’s “a fictionalized biography of John von Neumann, focused on the rise of artificial intelligence, the atomic bomb, and the limitations of human intellect.”
As soon as I finished this, I picked up his earlier book, When We Cease to Understand the World. I'm looking forward to reading what Labatut writes next.
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Sauron and von Neumann
I am reading The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut. In his description of von Neumann (Johnny), in the chapter narrated by Oskar Morgenstern, Morgenstern reminisces about how they got to work on game theory, how it was …