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#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is Your Imagination a Window to the Future?

"I'm an interested layperson and I feel that the most interesting area that humans are involved in is science" "X Machina contains lots of name checks all sorts of existing thought experiments, you know, shadows on... Plato's cave or Mary in the black and white room" He says he has no real point of contact with Stanley Kubrick but his imagination can inspire future scientists. The film will be released by Universal Pictures next month.

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