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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Free Will Is What We Call the Illusion of It

We live in a deterministic universe our brains are not very well equipped to fully determine the deterministic universe. So we're constantly surprised and feel like we're making snap decisions based on imperfect information so that feels a lot like free will. It just isn't. That's my guess. If you were able to do it it would certainly have to be a quantum computer. Something that worked in a quantum mechanical way in order to understand a quantum mechanical system.

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