Von Neumann meme: "You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in"
akbirthko · x · 2026-11-04
akbirthko quips that John von Neumann would have blown up the big AI labs, quoting a Physics in History card: von Neumann's advice to Richard Feynman at Los Alamos—"You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in" (from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, 1985). The joke lands amid today's AI lab race: imagining the Manhattan Project's just-build-it mindset transplanted into the frontier model competition.
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