Sam Harris
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, I mean, it could be that I'm so aware of the second order effects that I felt that the film sort of properly invoked them by ignoring them.
But yeah, I mean, as you say, this is very much from Oppenheimer's eye view of the situation and what he averts his eyes from and
And the stuff that sort of invades his consciousness as he's trying to give a speech.
And I thought it was just very effective at portraying the cognitive dissonance and the conflict.
It's pretty brilliant.
Especially the sound design that happens there.
So perhaps you can summarize your background in this area.
How have you come to these topics?
Where were you in school?
Yeah, well, he was an amazing writer.
What year was that that you studied with him?
Well, The Fate of the Earth was really instrumental in my becoming aware of this issue, and it's so well written.
Actually, I did a book report on it, I think when I was 13.
So I came to this pretty early.