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by ihm 4075 days ago
Interestingly enough the "mental software" used to handle the crisis of the atom bomb came from mathematics (von Neumann's game theory, in particular the idea of mutually assured destruction) rather than moral philosophy or something which we label as "humanities". I'd probably argue that what von Neumann was doing with MAD was "humanities" but I don't have a good definition of the word.