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You keep repeating the same stories about this man and his unparalleled intelect, but how do you explain the fact that he thought that fucking QUANTUM LOGIC was a good idea?

>> No.9268783

>>9268776
to be completly honest you need a very high IQ to understand quantum logic

>> No.9268879

>>9268776
is quantum logic kind of setting up the answer required and then backtracking for the quantum conditions that allowed it to be worked out. Sounds like $$ bitcoin $$ heaven...

>> No.9268943

>>9268783
Von brainlet amirite

>> No.9269358

>>9268776
It's almost as if people who praise him know nothing about him.

>> No.9269366

>>9268776
Who's saying that Joseph McCarthy was an intellectual?

The man was nothing more than a paranoid drunk. The suffering he put so many people through in his sham communist trials was awful. He should have been thrown in jail for the remainder of his pitiful life.

>> No.9269397

>>9268776
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand von Neumann. His genius is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of his accomplishments will go over a typical person's head. There’s also his nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his personality- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. His fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these theories, to realise that they’re not just mathematical- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike von Neumann truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the genius in von Neumann's existential catchphrase “Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as von Neumann’s genius wit unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools.. how I pity them.

>> No.9269399

>>9269366
His trials were accurate for 90% of people. That's better than psychology.

>> No.9269425

>>9269399
His trials extorted false confessions out of people. You can't consider any of his results reliable. Anybody that tries to is pushing a clear political agenda.

>> No.9270693

>>9269358
Wrong.