The following is a conversation with Alex Garland, writer and director of many

imaginative and philosophical films from the dreamlike exploration of human

self-destruction in the movie in allation to the deep questions of consciousness

and intelligence raised in the movie X Machina, which to me is one of the greatest

movies an artificial intelligence ever made. I'm releasing this podcast

the coincide with the release of his new series called Devs,

that will premiere this Thursday March 5th on Hulu as part of FX on Hulu.

It explores many of the themes this very podcast is about

from quantum mechanics to artificial life, to simulation,

to the modern nature of power in the tech world. I've got a chance to watch a preview

and loved it. The acting is great, Nick Alpharman especially is incredible in it,

the cinematography is beautiful and the philosophical and scientific ideas

explored are profound and for me as an engineer and scientist we're just

fun to see brought to life. For example if you watch the trailer for the series

carefully you'll see there's a programmer with a Russian accent looking at a

screen with Python-like code on it that appears to be using a library that

interfaces with a quantum computer. This attention and technical detail on

several levels is impressive and one of the reasons I'm a big fan of how Alex

we've science and philosophy together in his work. Meeting Alex for me was

unlikely but it was life-changing in ways I may only be able to articulate in a

few years. Just this meeting spot many of Boston

dynamics for the first time planted a seed of an idea in my mind

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