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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 Moral Compass Off?

I think one of the fundamental drivers of my current morality is constant self-doubt and the signals. I'm very sensitive to signals from people that tell me I'm doing the wrong thing. When there's a huge inflow of money, you're just put so much faith in your own virtue it could be an overpowering signal that everything you do is right. And so your moral compass can just get thrown off. The current president is convinced, I believe, actually he is ... He wants to do really good by the country and by the world. But his moral clock may be, or our compass may be off because... Yeah.

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