Amjad Masad
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it's all in Russian, you know.
Oh, Black Mirror, of course.
Black Mirror is awesome sci-fi.
But Sputnik is one of the best alien movies I've seen in a long time.
I mean, everyone, all these alien movies, it's so fascinating to try to imagine what they would communicate like, how they would be, what we would experience if we did encounter some sort of incredibly sophisticated alien experience, alien intelligence.
It's far beyond our comprehension.
Well, sure, if they have different senses, right?
Like their perceptions of it.
We can only see a narrow band of things.
In terms of what we are as a species, our senses have been adapted to the wild world in order for us to be able to survive and to be able to evade predators and find food.
That's what we're here for.
And then all of a sudden we have computers.