understand and assess whether this is a horrendous mistake or not. Yeah, humans are horrendously bad at providing honest explanations. They're very good at coming up with explanations for why they did something after the fact. That's right. It reminds me of an episode we did with Jonathan Haidt where he wrote the book, The Righteous Mind. And I think he said in that book that decisions come first or something to that effect, decisions come first, strategic reasoning second. So we reason after the fact, which is kind of scary when you think about it. So you mentioned autonomous weapons. Those are wrapped or rolled into a story called quantum genocide dealing with quantum computing as well. And the story is kind of this Unabomber-esque, Ted Kaczynski-esque character. First of all, tell us a little bit about the story and then use that as an opportunity to explain what quantum computing is because I did one episode on quantum mechanics. I took a class, an online class of Leonard Suskinds (30/38)
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