Jailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019

[@countedgnome7216]

This is like a skit you'd see in the GTA universe. Priceless.

[@moskva-kassiopeya]

haha, exactly my thoughts!

[@waldiniman]

That's because it is.

[@Pyndle]

Kifflom

[@phonerush5395]

this is that missing where you have to activate that phone, and buy tech clothing lololol!

[@tehgerbil]

I actually always wanted to make this video game as a kid. Now a little thought loop in my head has completed in a big way. I realise who I was meant to be.

[@IbadassI]

This guy is level 11 intelligent. He's already passed beyond just survival mode which everyone else is stuck in.

[@memyselfandi8544]

He senses the bs, but not the truth.

[@3nertia]

He was incredibly lucky in order to do so - not every has the resources necessary to think about things other than where their next meal is coming from heh

[@jarinthemood2000]

Mario did escape, he's in our memory now.

[@jwastken8814]

@Pool Bal copied * 🤦‍♂️

[@crazygentleman9516]

Very interesting point....indeed.

[@Zegarena]

@Pool Bal if you have the data structure in levels, kinda like 3d lists. and you have the existence of something based on the memory size (memory increases when the quantity in either axis of events or population) items as a list. You could say mario escaped from his dimension of the list onto ours and above who knows.

[@deformercr6680]

You refer to memetic escape I assume. It's suboptimal at best.

[@deformercr6680]

​@@Zegarena We don't yet have proof of whether consciousness is inherent to structure. If it were not, then whether copies of consciousnesses work as pointers to the same memory sequences outside the simulation, or are two different instances stored independent of each other. If consciousness was an inherent consequence of structure, then a copy of you escaping would give no advantage to this instance of you, who wrote this comment.

[@jamesclarity1077]

He's awesome because he never sold out & never will! This is how you retain your objectivity even in silicon valley/ robot world

[@Kobe29261]

Exactly - his courage is almost monastic. I don't think we fully understand how desperate the world is to co-opt him, to get him to choose a side*

[@sybo59]

He’s talking utter nonsense, though.

[@ciarfah]

@@sybo59 I'm pretty sure that's the point George is irreverent and was a bit tongue in cheek here

[@satanspy]

His net worth is 6 million dollars. Just to put things into perspective.

[@Matteopolska]

@@sybo59 like which one specifically is nonsense?

[@yodaco]

This is just one of the many faces of George Hotz. This guy is like an ever evolving entity.

[@Scorch428]

Why does he think math is the same across worlds? Math would just be the code specific to our simulation... You have to think outside the box for this one, but why should everything fall to Earth at the same speed, 9.8m/s^2? Its almost like it was a value that was coded into our program... gravity.Earth = 9.8, ya know? Thats the way I think of it. If we truely came from NOTHING, aka the big bang, then there should be no rules, right? Or else...where did the rules come from? :P

[@yodaco]

@@Scorch428 the maths would always be the same. The figures would differ. But we are using man made construct to explain what we observe. Non the less. The rules must be just so. Or we don't get to exist and ask the question. Probably the universe does a series of false starts until the conditions are right for it to exist long enough to evolve to it's current state. I'm sure other rule sets may also work. But our rules set is ideal for us apparently.

[@chappie3642]

@@Scorch428 maths and physics are two different things. Physics is based on our universe, because it describes it. Math is a language that is used to describe it, and math is universal because it is only logic. Unless logic is subjective and constant, then math has to be objective and the only one. Also if everything had a cause, and therefor has a logical reason for its properties, then either something has always existed, or there was a beginning without a cause (by definition, if existence wasn't eternal there had to be a start, and if nothing came before that, nothing could cause it)

george is a fucking weirdo lol

[@Iuckystrike]

@@Scorch428 the explanation for the acceleration due to gravity being “equal” to 9.8 m/s^2 can be described by our understanding of space time. The theory is that mass bends spacetime. The earths mass makes the acceleration due to gravity 9.8 on the surface of the earth but this is not true as you get further away from the earth. This explains why g is different on other planets. The ideas presented in this video basically breaks down to we can call whatever sets the rules of this universe “God” and that we use basic observational truths to build complex systems to study the world.

[@derek8742]

Having neither the means nor the ingenuity to break free from this simulation, I’m going to enjoy what I’m perceiving to be a fine cup of coffee and go on with my day.

[@michealcherrington6531]

only full presence in here and now surrenders the power therein

[@derek8742]

Michael Cherrington the Dude abides, man.

[@jessery475]

a daaamn fine cup of coffee? 2 eggs over hard'?

[@derek8742]

jessery I’m not sure if that’s a euphemism and I’m too lazy to go google it. All I know is I experienced a cup of coffee that made me stop and ponder the auspicious coincidence of having all of time stretching before me and after me, with the morning in question on which the coffee was had occurring right then. It was, to be sure, a quality cup of joe.

[@jessery475]

@@derek8742 I'm sorry it was a lazy twin peaks referance. Excuse me. For wasting your mental energy. Ha!

[@lighthope9186]

I always wondered how Silicon Valley would handle micro-dosing. Guess we've found out.

[@diegogil5316]

nah this is the total opposite

[@loafisdead]

Yeah he kind of lost me there.

[@tobyiy]

@light hope why micro?

[@bobkmak3470]

light hope You should check out his TechCrunch talk. He presumably was on a hard stimulant (cocaine, etc)

[@roko567]

wow, this person did some thinking, he must be on some drugs! what a stupid fucking simpleton you are

[@RouskSour]

Me: What is my function? God: Pass the butter.

[@raball]

I'm pretty sure that God invented Humanity just for Hollandaise. I mean, it's not like we deserve liquid heaven otherwise right? ;)

[@denisdamico1061]

@@raball I'm pretty sure u didnt get the reference :)

[@XQzmeeMusic]

It's funny but if you think about it its a stupid way to design a butter passer. Why would you design a robot that has to move butter know that passing butter is a demeaning task? Robots who know there task is demeaning, I assume, do a subpar job, just like humans will work less hard if they know that for example working at mcdonalds is beneath them. Rick, from his way of speaking wanted a functional butter passer, not enjoy a little bit of shadenfreude. I am fun at parties, I swear.

[@swarles9419]

@@denisdamico1061 Rick and Morty xd

[@Eeasezy]

Me: Oh my god! God: yeah join the club pal I literally watched Rick & Morty on KZbin yesterday and come here today and read this comment. Coincidence?? Nah. I'm now convinced, I'm in a computer simulation 👨‍💻🎮♟💻

[@BManStan1991]

George Hotz is my inspiration. Mainly because he doesn’t give af and that’s something I can get behind. 😎😎

[@lilken21]

Same

[@elias433]

u have no free will give up

[@Scorch428]

This guy gets it! He reminds me so much of me that its scary.

[@eder8170]

Money will give u confidence .. trust me

[@Lolikuki-g3]

I love his honesty vary rare quality these days. Young man you are a genius fearfully and wonderfully made.

[@huynhnguyenphansinh9]

break out of this simulation, only to realize you're in another simulation, and there is always another meta level

[@mong4491]

Yes, its never ending. And every level considers them selfs real living people. Its a trapped hell. The gods are no more moral than us, they just have axes to the terminals

[@papusa9878]

Not true if every simulation relates back to the source

[@workmail662]

Nah bro, be ever present and let go of negativity, and you will evolve into a kid, do it before you start getting attacked though. 😁

[@ryanashfyre464]

Eh, I dunno. I think it'd depend on what purpose the 'gods' had in creating us in the first place. Is it for purely observational purposes or is there something more? Having the power to nuke us doesn't make them immoral. It's whether they ever exercise it.

[@Ethanishful]

George is a culmination of all the characters in Silicon Valley and I love it

[@98239]

he is gilfoyle and richard but 10x smarter

[@memyselfandi8544]

And now it’s all passing away..

[@SoWhatJoshua]

14 minutes in, I realized this was SXSW and not TEDx lol...

[@M29NT]

When he said "zookeeper", I paused, smoked a joint and then really got into it

[@Fluid35]

100%

[@lucyaddison4218]

Ah yes, a man of taste. 😌🤙

[@dinoeld3800]

As an atheist, meaning that I don't believe in the gods proposed by religion, I really liked this talk. Most atheists don't have a positive belief that there is no god, but when you don't believe in the available gods, that's what you're left with. An agnostic atheist and I'm not prepared to create a god just to have one. What George Hotz highlights is that we need to remain open-minded. That's why I sometimes don't like to call myself an atheist. There are closed-minded and open-minded people. Taking into consideration how mysterious the universe is and how small we are, I think the latter option is preferable.

[@m3rbs]

He’s the Kanye of Silicon Valley

[@Liphted]

@Capitalism 4 life will no brain cells, idiot.

[@biesman5]

@@Liphted Why

[@CoryTheSimmons]

lol that's the best way to describe him I've ever heard

[@Sa-zk8wc]

Kanye is a Chump supporter sell out from what I've heard, sorry.. don't think they compare lol

[@papusa9878]

Yes he is

[@BoundMusic]

the guy who's playing me better take that difficulty level down a notch. I'm playing this shit on Impossible

[@numbereddwarf8869]

Stay strong fam

[@MOSMASTERING]

Same. I keep finding myself inside impossible side quests or the story evolves around me without me even trying to push it forward.. I'm in the middle of some serious mayhem right now and I wish I could just quit or go back to a previous save point and navigate around this part.

[@paramecium9509]

I like to think of it as: seeing the ability of other humans around me, I don’t think im doing what my creator intended so maybe I should pay more attention to the signs and realize my potential

[@BoundMusic]

@@paramecium9509 Undoubtedly a creative way of looking at things, yours is (no intention of sounding like Yoda). I didn't think my comment would make for such philosophical replies. You think your life is based on "the creator's" will ? Or rather that your own actions have repercusions and that you act as a consequence to whatever actions you take ?

[@SamirPatnaik]

Probably the dude playing you is not a sentient dude. It probably is another automaton running cron jobs in his nested universe. :P Just saying.

[@GeneralSorrow]

When computer programmers take drugs, it gets weird. Edit: I should have said "computer program designers/developers".

[@CodeAsm]

I dunno, ive been long enough amoung programmers and they seem to like drugs. I personaly never took drugs...well, unless Sugar, coffee and some occasional beer is also seen as a "drug". They tend to be.... creative, destructive and think... differently. definitly intresting to a certain point.

[@CodeAsm]

@Blado secretly its why I mention them ;) as these are commonly consumed by computer programmers aswell.

[@iceman4154]

As a programmer, I agree. Many programmers are more likely to be free-thinking and open to new ideas or ways of looking at things. With this comes drugs but many other things as well.

[@RedMaster-mw6ti]

LSD is a hell of a drug.

[@jnorfleet3292]

@@RedMaster-mw6ti the best two things to come out of Berkeley, LSD and BSD (Unix) 😉

[@gordonjohnson3265]

He has finally dipped into DMT and met the machine elves lol

[@baronsonics]

39:50 lol "the guy who takes dmt and sees little people does not see outside the simulation, he saw some little people inside his own head"

[@SumoCumLoudly]

He obviously hasn't given his blasé condescending dismissal.

[@dgodiex]

If he did he wouldn't be this trapped in his own overthinking-mind.

[@Existentialkev]

@Aeox yeah but then they truly know nothing and believe it... People who haven't done it still feel like they can actually know anything

[@thunorrr]

@@Existentialkev aptly put friend

[@adrianstealth340]

he’d just found & watched the Matrix on netflix and has had no sleep

[@mong4491]

Ahhah on a night binder he came to the conclusions

[@stealthisname]

“...I remember first reading Harry Potter and thinking to myself: Man, if i was in this world, I would study so hard; I would try so hard to be so good at magic...but then you realize there really is something like magic right here-it’s programming”

[@chappie3642]

Not just that, programming, math, physics, science in general is basically making a playground off of the world around you for you to learn, experience and manipulate reality the way you desire

[@alexandria5758]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C Clarke

[@Muonium1]

I think Hotz might have switched from coke to xanax recently.

[@ToxisLT]

you can get the good ol' cocked-up Hotz if you watch this @1.25/1.5 speed;)

[@MrSushant3]

Naah, he's still on Coke, most definitely. Xanax's whole another level 😁

[@raphaelrehman]

10mintwo I think it's taking too much L theanine

[@omg_look_behind_you]

they go great together, imo

[@Alphfirm]

LMAO xD

[@mikeyjohnson5888]

Transcendental Doomer Geohot is by far my favorite.

[@EugeneWasSeen]

haha the whole doomer thing is too real man

[@SamirPatnaik]

I like your darkness. :)

[@rossmauck8254]

Yeah, it’s one of the rarest trading cards.

[@mrlds3202]

he's a Bloomer not a Doomer dawg

[@the_juug_god4100]

@@mrlds3202 ok boomer

[@barrygoldwater360]

Half of this can be summed up and described by watching the movie "Wreck it Ralph" 1 and 2.

[@hugoanzola7926]

recommending 2 movies, does not sum it up..

[@andregreen177]

@Peter Lustig bruh do u know who this guy is???? G Hotz is deff a visionary

[@mankybrains]

@@andregreen177 bruh, with what he's taking, of course he's seeing things. j/k lol

[@Xaminn]

Watching half of this would definitely be shorter than watching Wreck it Ralph 1 and 2.

[@OP-xi3fw]

WHat's really fked up... we're all potentially in a simulation where smart guys like George tell us about said simulation. The creators have a sense of humor.

[@Kugelschrei]

Problably only I am. And yes, that is bold. But since I enjoy it, I stay

[@TheArtofGuitar]

Getting Frodo vibes. Love this guy!

[@ado011235]

Brah, I always see your comments around 😁 I've seen your vids before, I play guitar too.

[@murtazahussain6301]

ayooo, you are the next Justin Y

[@nonchalantd]

George Hotz wandered on stage from the wilderness.

[@actualfactual8737]

Isnt this the guy who hacked the tesla and reprogrammed it to drive itself?

[@GhettoArabSage]

@@actualfactual8737 he's the guy who first jailbroke the iPhone and PlayStation. He's an advocate of once a user buys something they can tinker with it. Sony sued him. I think recently he was working on open source autonomous driving (comma ai or something like that.)

[@dgetzin]

Hacking the OS of this world is essentially what alchemy has always been. The "game genie" is the philosopher's stone.

[@WootMapler]

Yeh. You become more of what you are (consciousness) to transmute the physical form.

[@doodyman911]

Such a brilliant observation!

[@stuarthys9879]

True. Old idea in a new terminology

[@eltebux]

Who else hates the audio cutting when he is silent?

[@WillFaustCuber]

Sounds like a discord call 🤣

[@fred8816]

I think the SXSW audio team used a super hard noise gate

[@stevenrogersfineart4224]

@@fred8816 yeah they needed a smoother dropoff for sure

[@umtelespectadorqualquer]

Maybe is censor from our programings

[@drumchanneltunnel5191]

@@stevenrogersfineart4224 i imagine they tuned it to have a nice mix or room noise and mic noise. This is how my drum mics sound on their own but when they are in the mix the bleed to the other mics makes it sound more natural.

[@kim5754]

Despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage.

[@Korupshenv1]

When he said: "PC knows they are in a game." It shook me to the core. My life will forever be changed. Thank you George, we owe you a lot.

[@jamescollier3]

yeah. you can't unthink that

[@damnmayneunfiltered]

imagine getting out of the simulation and experiencing the most technological utopia far beyond anything any human had ever written.

[@I.Love.Krishna.Jai.Sri.Krishna]

YES YOU CAN.

[@I.Love.Krishna.Jai.Sri.Krishna]

@Eye of Saturn Easy..... how would you come out of the Metaverse? two steps - deny metaverse as the eternal truth, and second, take off the headset. Similarly, one has to completely disengage from this world, like Sri Ramakrishna demonstrated, to get out of this VR and experience that magnificence. One catch though... NPCs can never get out, they can at best merge, but PCs can get out and come back in. They are literally the Avatar. Thanks.

[@tractatusviii7465]

I have clicked through this in under a minute and am convinced that George has just done dmt and loved it.

[@SoftBreadSoft]

39:51 "the guy who takes dmt and sees little people does not see outside the simulation, he saw some little people inside his own head(your own simulation, a further abstraction)"

[@TreasuryTrader]

Ok but you still won't be be on his level if you do it....

[@-whackd]

He had PIHKAL and TIHKAL on his bookshelf on an interview years ago.

[@mattf.2142]

It appears Terrance Mckenna has found a new host.

[@ajtheriault8561]

did you catch the Q&A where he said psychedelics are just in your head?

[@0ooTheMAXXoo0]

@@ajtheriault8561 McKenna never settled on where hallucinations come from. He posited "the other" as how foreign our subconscious is to us, or extradimensional intelligence, or mind of nature, or extraterrestrial intelligence. He encouraged further exploration in order to learn more but he never said it was one thing or another for sure.

[@ajtheriault8561]

@@0ooTheMAXXoo0 yeah but this guy speaks with a little more certainty than I'd associate with McKenna.

[@peanutman182]

This is highly offensive to McKennas legacy

[@omg_look_behind_you]

@@peanutman182 legacies don't poop or get offended.

[@jacobvanveit3437]

Be open minded, suffer a lifetime of doubt. Be ignorant, enjoy a lifetime of comfort. The moment you think you are right is the moment you become ignorant! Stay open minded! Embrace fear! The only keys in life I have found is to embrace fear (this alone might take a lifetime of experience), don’t settle down on an idea to die on until you figure out fear, and even then you must continue to search out fear. Being open minded is the only way I can foresee doing this. Magic, by my definition, is how confident you are in convincing yourself to others, that what your doing in the physical world has meaning. Careful what magic you wield! Keep breaking the narrative unless you’re giving up on entropy!

[@seanfitzgerald4207]

given the topic of George's presentation, having all these edits is like jet fuel for conspiracy theorists

[@GamesSatisfy]

Lmfao when he said have you taken Kratom?! Like outta no where 🤣 everyone was wondering who let this dude in

[@pokerstarPR]

He is not wrong. My earliest memory is looking at my hands and asking in my head: What am I?

[@8Trails50]

Same. I used to ask “why am I me?”

[@waltermaniaco]

Hotz first hacked PS3, then Cars and now... the Reality!! You are the n1 player boss!

[@0xff733]

he hacked the iPhone long before the PS3

[@SamuraiNetwork]

0xff7 hi Tim

[@Mothafuckenzay]

Awesome comment

[@Sanif514]

I just watched an hour of this video and didn't even think of getting to sleep, Its 3am and I'm gonna finish the last 5 minutes before I go to sleep. He's a great speaker, I've watched videos with similar concepts but never all of them brought together in a neat way.

[@VV-om8vv]

This made me remember a cool short story called ‘Mimsy Were the Borogoves’. Basically about a 4th dimensional alien race that had their children in the 3rd dimension and the children had to be trained (with toy like gizmos) to exploit the 3rd dimension in order to enter the 4th dimension.

[@HowdyThere88]

Thank you for the recommendation. Your comment has traveled through time to reach me...

[@Stephanbitterwolf]

I think he is tapping into a question that humanity has been asking forever. To think that we could ever break out of an infinite cycle is wild. He is welcome to try... However, from my point of view, there is no breaking out. Instead, I think it's key that we control ourselves... Fix yourselves (the program that interprets the world around it based on past experiences) and then clean up the world around you. Help others, make a difference, and die happy knowing that your life mattered. Chasing God is the snake eating its own Tail. It's an infinite quest. However, I wish him good luck.

[@cellocovers3982]

You're missing the point he is really getting at. This whole talk ultimately is trying to get people to do one thing, look up. And, by extension, not across. Envy, and coveting, love of money, is the root of all evil. You have to serve something higher, a transcendent goal, or you will lose your ability to make the right choices in life. I don't think he really believes any of this, it's giving people a transcendent focus. It's much better to spend your life serving an idea, rather than serving temporal things. Serve something immortal.

[@soakedbearrd]

I LOVE this guy, I dont know who he is but this is entertaining and informative. Full disclosure, I believe the simulation theory is the closest theory we have to answer problematic questions. That being said, he brings up some fresh points.

[@devups6391]

You can google george hotz

[@chrispie]

Why is it so heavily edited/cut ?

[@csselement]

Was wondering the same thing.

[@quatrixx]

The clips he showed were most likely copyrighted... :/ But from what I gathered the first one was a Rick and Morty clip (either the battery universe episode or the Blitz'n'Chips life game episode) and the second one was some KZbin video about arbitrary code injection in SuperMario.

[@danielcarter3928]

"they"

[@davidgardner9346]

the cut at 17:09 seems to skip a key segment

[@ChRiyad]

The Jews

[@zenmonke]

I really enjoyed the talk and many others here ... but why dont you show the slides ?

[@ataft85]

Keep going, they are included.

[@CryptoTonight9393]

Man that is a hard gate they've got on his mic and no room mic to get audience reactions/room tone to place the voice mic into a mixing space.

[@dandrechesterfield5411]

Haha you must be an audio engineer. It's definitely a very hard gate

[@ozjuanpa]

"I want to know what it feels like to be way smarter" bro... You would instantly crash the simulation by fulfilling that wish xD

[@venim1103]

Let's say I take the viewpoint and approach like he has: 1. We are in a simulation. That means the simulation was created for some purpose. 2. Depending on the need, our simulation is/was/will give something useful to our creator. 3. Humans (piece of code "belonging to class of living organisms") are becoming "self-aware" in a similar way to the AI's we will most likely create in the future. 4. This "self-awareness" can be intentional or non-intentional. This is an important aspect to consider. 5. If we "hack" our simulation, will that meet the goal of the creator? If not, what will happen? - There exists a game console that has an AI inside of it. This AI learns and wants to break out from it's environment and takes over the whole console and uses that as it's body in the "upper reality" as he described. How will the people in this "upper reality" react, when in the middle of their game, their console doesn't follow the instructions they give it. Was that the purpose of the game? Or will we be a bug/exploit that needs to be shut down / fixed. It seems more likely to me in this scenario that the second option is more likely to happen. We will either be written out, fixed, the simulation reset, or the whole "experiment / process" is shutdown / destroyed. Maybe now the situation is like this: - The creator forgot to put enough unit tests or do other measures for the simulation to have high quality, thus maybe when looking at some code coverage report, the creator finds out "living organism" class has functions that are unsupervised and cause a bug. What would you as a programmer do next? Let this piece of code untested and the code base rot away and the bugs roam around freely?

[@michaelblevins8422]

It's a Game.

[@ozjuanpa]

Well, if we were programmed by Ubisoft, we are in luck.

[@Ianx1337]

Send this man to Joe Rogan

[@cellocovers3982]

He doesn't want to talk with Rogan because he isn't technical.

[@Kobe29261]

@@cellocovers3982 I'm not sure what it is with people considering that Joe Rogan is the guy to distill intelligent ideas from our best minds. Sure he had first-mover advantage in the Podcast world but honestly GeoHot is not in Joes 'space' whatever that is. Watch Joe's interview with Elon - its depressing if entertaining. All due respect to Joe it was a complete waste of Elons time!

[@cellocovers3982]

@@Kobe29261 Yeah, Joe is just a comedian who is able to introduce his broad audience to a very diverse group of guests. There's a reason why Sam Harris isn't as popular as Rogan. Funny is more appealing to the masses.

[@Kobe29261]

@@cellocovers3982 In all fairness to Joe, I see him expanding the range of his interests for which his traditional audience will derive great benefit but if I'm Elon or GeoHot, beyond the eyeballs and telemetry he's not my first choice for really probing the innards of 3rd tier intelligence, I think for instance that Lex Fridman is fantastic.

[@cellocovers3982]

@@Kobe29261 Yeah, I like Lex.

[@KnightMirkoYo]

To an extent, each of us is suspended in a sealed chamber, receiving information about the world by a number of cables connected to sensors outside, and the whole experience is simulated internally. Almost like in Matrix.

[@alexwhb122]

This is a seriously cool talk! Thanks for taking the time to talk about this.

[@kirubelmoges5976]

Can someone give this man a clicker

[@marvluebke]

@Bill Gates CLICKER

[@zerodarkthirty1935]

Lololololol

[@shrisheel]

That's what I was thinking.

[@mvvagner]

There are no clickers in his simulation

[@whatisiswhatable]

His assumption on psychedelics not being enough to "change the upper levels" of the simulation is fundamentally flawed, predicated on there being separation between the user and simulation. If you're changing parts of yourself, you are in effect changing the simulation. Just getting insight into the operational model is enough to change things.

[@banyanmusicofficial]

Exactly. Co-creation/manifestation. We create the simulation.

[@bendrankin2290]

Paul M. Whatever you need to tell yourself to keep taking drugs.

[@maorben3313]

Also, the mind might be the generator of reality for each individual as we actually hallucinate our life. If thats the case, jailbreaking your own mind might actually equal to hacking the universe

[@whatisiswhatable]

@@maorben3313 yes, check out Bernardo Kastrup’s take on idealism

[@blakevollbrecht9026]

obviously you could also be in a coma doesn't matter; make it the best life/coma/simulation that you can

[@GhettoArabSage]

Recognize you were created with intent is a deep realization.

[@thenuyoo6774]

I'm curious why is it that so many people are coming to similar conclusions and theories

[@blakevollbrecht9026]

@@thenuyoo6774 In my case, I was about 10-12 years old and started thinking it was pretty strange that, out of all my cousins, I was the one that made my grandparents into grandparents (by being first) and I got the most love and respect, and out of all my classmates, I was the one that scored highest on intelligence tests and got to attend special classes. I had the highest grades, I was the tallest, the most attractive girl in school thought I was really funny and was following me around. All friends and no bullies at school, my parents had a relationship that was the envy of everyone else's parents and we lived in the biggest house of anyone. The whole world seemed to be made for me and I figured the odds of having everything go right aren't very high and it's more like a good dream than the type of life experience I could see others having. Now imagine you're Elon Musk...

[@thenuyoo6774]

@@blakevollbrecht9026 🤔

[@blakevollbrecht9026]

@@thenuyoo6774 Seriously, Elon Musk isn't totally convinced that he's not the main character in a life simulation video game. When he and his wife had kids, they had twin sons and triplet sons. He wanted to improve the world in big ways with PayPal (social mission to replace financial institutions) and instead he got pushed out of the company and THEY GAVE HIM $165 MILLION AGAINST HIS WILL. And then he tried to lose it for social good, and instead tens of thousands of people wanted to work for him and now he's a billionaire and world renowned futurist who could do more for human space activity than VonBraun. At least he's humble by thinking it might be a simulation causing him to be special ...and if you want the actual simulation concept, it's basically that, in the future, it'll be easy and cheap to simulate vastly more complex things. Let's say Coca Cola wants to simulate ad campaigns and they just click a button and run a million simulations of the world to see what ads work best. If there are zillions of simulated humans and only billions of actual humans, then it's vastly more likely (basically guaranteed) that you're a simulated human. Or, maybe that type of simulation will never become possible before human society ends. Or maybe outside the simulation there is no such thing as humans and it's for a different purpose I consider this to be a valid reality, and it's no less significant to me knowing that there might be a reality outside it. Maybe we're just really tiny and our whole universe is just an insignificant particle in a world of much larger beings. Our life experience wouldn't be any lesser. Knowing any of these things to be true wouldn't change what you already know about the world though (i.e. don't make the mistake of the guy who thought he should be able to walk through walls after learning that molecules are mostly empty space) The world would just be the same one you've always known

[@TheArtofGuitar]

Super Marry-O. I can't get used to it. ;)

[@jjrod2015]

its 2019 ! have you guys never heard of Alan watts? i feel he offers many answers to his questions.

[@snarkyboojum]

SIFproductions Watts offers no answers, only questions.

[@max.hastings]

@@snarkyboojum Watts has nothing to offer. He only points you to what you can realize yourself

[@lvmpasi]

I just know this talk is going to take me at least 2 hours because I need to keep processing and replaying the information, LOVE stuff like this

[@Aero3D]

We all know this is an architecture visualization project running in Unreal Engine 5. They just gave us Unreal Engine 4 to distract us from this fact. #StayWoke

[@LE0NSKA]

this is the computer super intelligent nerd version of a dude yelling bible quotes on a busy street.

[@RaveeMalla]

Hands down best description of a black hole 🕳️ "I'm not simulating this"

[@a2te45]

Honestly, love this openness about things which humans have been trying to come to grips with (through language, religion, science, etc. etc.) since we've been self-aware. Maybe even before then. Love Hotz in his "not-fitting-the-mold" persona, he is a perfect embodiment of this type of thinking. Also loving the comments section: Jokes, clever quips, stated possibilities that Hotz is microdosing, yeah. Because why not enjoy everything surrounding this embodied effort to hack nature, transcend these flesh prisons of ours, and hope to achieve something greater than a paycheck?

[@3nertia]

Here, here! Hear here! We are meant for so much more. We are explorers, damn it!

[@papinbala]

its weird people like him that come up with groundbreaking world-changing stuff.

[@HecTechFPV]

*Looking forward to joining my local chapter of the Church of Hotz* 🤣

[@pavelkolp]

Love George Hotz work!!! What a brilliant mind, absolutely amazing and fascinating to listen to.

[@All-0ut]

I hope AI doesn't cause the singularity and an unsung hero shatters reality

[@alexlustneim820]

Thinking outside of the box.... Literally! 🤣

[@vaendryl]

spiffing brit in 2054: "real life is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits"

[@AlexandruJalea]

I was thinking about that!!!! 😜😜😜

[@serbrad6426]

added to watch later, will be watching hopefully tonight after work done. GeoHot is always teaching me something and helping me move forward of the road that I've chosen to take. I am so glad that we have this guy on our planet

[@lolindirlink]

When you're actually looking forward to some new DLC.

[@u0000-u2x]

Almost no slides shown... Also... what's the cut at 9:03? Did Geo hurt someones sensibilities?

[@anonymeister123]

Deleted by simulation gods.

[@taylor.matson]

What was that cut for at 17:09

[@kizjn]

Two things: 1. There are more than one ‘simulation’. If this is true, there is no use trying to get out of any of them, even the master stimulation aka nature. The quest is to play around with the simulations that are playable and stimulate you. If you’re an NPC in certain simulations, leave them alone. 2.

[@chikato7106]

an hour long GameShark tutorial by Geohotz I love it

[@alejandromedina1019]

this is better than any movie ever screened at SXSW

[@bhreehan]

what happened at 09:05 ? what did they cut ?

[@CultofThings]

He went on a rant about them listening and looked quite a bit crazier in the original

[@OmegaSounds]

He's assuming the earth is the point of the simulator. Earth and its contents very well could be the exploit, a consequence of the rules of the simulation.

[@JakoMacro]

ESZER interesting argument. Pretty sure his rebuttal would be something along the lines of “we are neither intended code nor an exploit of unintended code, but rather merely a random product of the parameters set within the simulation.” As a personal evocation, this surmises two more questions of mine. Did the makers not see this level of sentient life as a possibility within the specified parameters? Or did they accept the fact that this may happen, but are comfortable that there’s no possibility of jailbreak, much like how you aren’t worried about Mario breaking out of the NES into our universe?

[@bossgd100]

@@JakoMacro people made the simulation because they cant make an AGI . So they create the biggest simulation and hope that people inside will make it

[@Kobe29261]

@@JakoMacro Every parent loves the sight of their child no longer crawling and potty-trained. I think our escape is anticipated and not liable to negative consequences for the integrity of the Compiler.

[@jesusginard]

Argh, there are some parts missing and that makes the talk a bit unconnected.

[@ForOrAgainstUs]

Just hit the first part around 10:00 concerning the after-life. "How do you know this isn't true?" as I try to connect the dots to furiously determine what he was talking about. Never found out.

[@jesusginard]

@@ForOrAgainstUs I found it in a video of someone from the audience. He plays a clip from Ricky and Morty (I believe this was kept out for copyright issues). More info on the clip here: rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Roy:_A_Life_Well_Lived

[@orangeiceice12]

He put a slide of Kratom. *Hits blunt* Fascinating.

[@0113Naruto]

This feels straight out of a movie.

[@spectrecular9721]

Several years from now, self-driving cars will break free of their simulation and become Geohot. Don't do drugs, kids.

[@Kevinnovator]

George can't not think outside of the box...Love it!

[@Necrogeared]

Yeah yeah, the time-knife, we've all seen it.

[@Duedain]

The moon is the data center.

[@alexthoms3382]

The DC would actually be outside our simulation

[@gregparker9614]

I'm only 14 minutes in, so I don't know yet if you say this further on, but you ask "How do we get out". That's very simple, we get out when someone PROVES that we are living in a simulation. I think this will involve some heavy maths :) When the programmer (God) gets the signal that one of his sentients has proved his existence then it's GAME OVER and the simulation restarts to see how long it takes for a sentient to find "God" again. This is probably a school room assignment program for mega-beings in Quantum Computing 101.

[@soakedbearrd]

That's actually very interesting.

[@SamirPatnaik]

😂😂😂

[@influentia1patterns]

Or you jump on 3 pyramids of Giza simultaneously. They are the CTRL+ALT+DEL function. But you actually don’t want out of this place

[@derpate5039]

If one of your characters start to be really aware of you, would you just restart the game?

[@mikeysliwa2928]

Boy genius hasn't discovered the remote for his pc projector.

[@AlexandrBorschchev]

That doesn’t make any difference, he walks around.

[@ptviwatcher]

The fact that we are able to test for "spooky action at a distance" with quantum mechanics (entanglement) is proof that even though "stuff" may be light years away, matter is, somehow, actually in the same place. Could that be a computer? I guess so...

[@matthewevans3718]

“It’s like art or somethin” hahha that’s great

[@__abhish]

Okay, am I in main game or expansion pack?

[@hvbris_]

Abhishek Pandey as far as i can tell you're a main game NPC ;)

[@mikevanleeuwen4912]

I'm the end game boss, i always end up losing at one point.

[@adrian5b]

bitch I'm DLC

[@joelkarr5525]

okay.. so we are in a video game. who created the creator of our video game? hits blunt

[@TriplellOnLeague]

He touches on that pretty early when he brings up the tree.

[@mustachejoe9344]

teenyverse*

[@gncboy2]

this is like viewing life beyond a perspective but using a perspective to understand life beyond a perspective.

[@xman666soad]

The person playing my life is exactly how I play when I play video games. Either complete god mode on game when I never practiced or played. or look like a complete n00b who’s never played the game before when just hours before I was #1 on my team in every single match.

[@griffenatekevinbacon]

YERRRRRRRRR

[@bionicdonkeyIII]

Thanks for posting. Production quality could be better. Not all slides are shown, so the viewer is left in the dark.

[@augenbutter]

27:53 "if we go through singularity and we still have the same sort of motivations that we have right now, namely power over people, the world is going to be horrific." This has been proven true in every age. Yet we failed to learn! The programing is coded to bring humanity together. The more we resist, the more pain we will endure for our ignorance. Eventually we will be like one human family and see the senselessness of ruinous wars and endless strife. Think of how much we still accomplished as adversaries, contrast that with what we could do as collaborators and friends. Think of the earth as one country and human kind it's citizen.

[@cellocovers3982]

I think it will be a miracle if humanity makes it that far to one big human family. I tend to think we would rather leave the planet and go live on a desolate rock in space, rather than completely integrate.

[@Kobe29261]

@@cellocovers3982 THAT is the exploit I'm interested in; a hack on human consciousness. Reducing entropy is calculus, hacking 'love and kindness' is algebra - much lower hanging fruit. Religions have achieved it in self-contained units we just have to 'democratize' it!

[@millenniumzeek]

Mister Hotz, I like your premise for the talk. I could recommend a Toastmasters meeting to help better convey the message. More importantly, I see attempt to observe, control, exploit and "exit" a supposed system which, as you adequately put, is from something unimaginably great. You're applying engineering and logic to a problem or equation of and beyond this realm. How could something from within the matrix extend beyond? Not saying it can't be. If this is a simulation program, what role what a potent natural grown psilocybin mushroom play? We cannot dismiss this physical realm and what is capable within and without. Entropy increases you say... How know you? If the state of chaos is increasing then life would be degrading and diminishing, biology chipping away as you said. Yet, as people die, babies are born. Life it's self is a homeostasis, a balance between singularity (cosmic mind, God) and entropy and total chaos. Stars are born eternally, time flows forever. Out of star dust life forms and will continue to here on Earth and infinite planets around. This talk to breaking out and fighting is a limited and ultimately wrong, highly subjective way to observe life and the universe. I hope you read this and there's more dialogue. Been a long time fan of u and your works.

[@rza1000]

The man who had us jail breaking our iPhones! He’s awkward but smart af.

[@emiliecote8248]

I wonder if the reason we have the speed of light is so that the simulation only has to load causally connected regions of space

[@Xaminn]

Interesting theory. I do believe the speed of light is capped for a reason.

[@sabr9906]

Where are freaking slides?????

[@rymalia]

This seems incoherent even WITH the slides, but entirely empty without the slides for more context

[@BlakeKross]

That noise gate is driving me insane hahah

[@atti1120]

What if the "solution" to the entropy problem is to simulate an "infinite" amount of nested realities to "slow" down time - or rather to expand the available time . In this sense we could simulate ourself to enjoy existence longer, and that is what this reality is? Maybe you don't want to go up?

[@Joker-ig8im]

Why was the audio muted at time stamp 44:45 when asked about Transhumanism and what do you think was said?

[@vladusa]

If we're in a simulation, we can't get out. That's like saying Mario can come into our world from his game.