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The following Authors are mentioned in Chapter&nbsp;3 of my book {{yuriko}}:
# [[Robert Henry Thouless]]
# [[Nelson M. Blachman]]
# [[W. H. Cazaly]]
# ...


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* [https://gwern.net/doc/science/1962-good-thescientistspeculates.pdf Available online here].
* [https://gwern.net/doc/science/1962-good-thescientistspeculates.pdf Available online here].

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🕮The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas. I. J. Good. Basic Books, 1962. [ISBN: 978-0465074549]

This is a strange book, mixing crazy ideas, jokes and, occasionally, dead serious and deep content, in particular, Wigner's friend paradox. The editor is I. J. Good, a cryptologist who worked with Alan Turing and a consultant on supercomputers to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, also a pioneer of technological singularity, so definitely an insightful and interesting character.

A review in the AJP:

The following Authors are mentioned in Chapter 3 of my book Yuriko:

  1. Robert Henry Thouless
  2. Nelson M. Blachman
  3. W. H. Cazaly
  4. ...

Location