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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Determinism Machine?

I think people would find it very disturbing, but then after they'd got over their sense of being disturbed. I remember my daughter saying to me, she'd got hold of the idea that my view of the universe made it meaningless. And so with a lack of free will space, you could think, well, this robs me of everything I am. So how big a difference does it really make? It's not completely meaningless because there is a bit of meaning contained within this space. But I don't know we understand that,. I think there's a bunch of people who see the world that way, but not everybody.

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