On accelerating the advent of AGI by cloning John von Neumann (since people are too touchy about iterated embryo selection): fantasticanachronism.com/2021/03/23/two
("I also suspect that enslaving God is a bad idea even if it works.”)
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He’s buried in Princeton, though see also this related vignette:
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Yeah, if you want to get entirely practical about it, getting JvN DNA suitable for cloning is unlikely. And if you have the technical ability to fix it then you don't really need JvN DNA to begin with. Going with someone living would be vastly easier.
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