The Difference Between Free Will and Physical Determinism | 3min snip from Making Sense with Sam Harris

Speaker 3
Yeah, we'll come, we'll get into
Speaker 2
that in a little bit more detail in a moment. But so you have the gas well, you, the gas well, I guess spits out, there's a process to turn that into fuel for a generator, the generator powers the A6 inside the enclosure, right? When that's up and running, right? When you guys step back, you, like the A6 are humming along, it's being powered by the well. Like what's the initial reaction to that when you both just step back, look at each other and be like, holy shit, we're making Bitcoin off natural gas well right here.
Speaker 1
It was, it was, it was, it was very like a sci-fi feeling. It was, it's so weird, just, you know, we had pine trees all around us. We were in the middle of nowhere on this just rock pad location that I'd been to before to do work. And I just thought of it as an oil site. And at this point, I was no longer an oil site to me. It was a Bitcoin mining site. Of course, the S9s, you know, they had so many glowing green lights, they don't have as many anymore on like some of these newer units. But the whole thing just glowed green. And so that was the coolest part because it was like the sun was starting to go down. You could hear it running. Matt and I couldn't stop smiling. It was kind of, but it's the same thing. It wasn't just like, wow, this was so easy. It was kind of like a, oh, we got it running. Right. So, but it was a very exciting
Speaker 3
day.

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