Rizwan Virk | The Simulation Hypothesis | Talks at Google

2019 marks the 20th anniversary of what is arguably one of the best Science fiction movies ever made - The Matrix. It popularized an ancient idea that the world we live in may not be real. In other words, our world is just an illusion, a simulation -- a video game.
So, Are we really living in a video game?
Game industry veteran Rizwan (Riz) Virk believes this could be true.
Rizwan (“Riz”) Virk is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, bestselling author, video game industry pioneer, and indie film producer. Virk currently runs Play Labs @ MIT (www.playlabs.tv) a startup accelerator for playful technologies held on campus at the MIT Game Lab and Bayview Labs (www.bayviewlabs.com).
Virk’s books include: Startup Myths and Models: Secrets They Don't Teach You at Stanford Business School, from Columbia University Press (2020), Zen Entrepreneurship: Walking the Path of the Career Warrior (2013), and Treasure Hunt: Follow Your Inner Clues to Find True Success (2017).
Virk’s video games have been played by millions, including Tap Fish, and games based on TV shows like Penny Dreadful and Grimm. Virk has been an investor in many video game companies, including Telltale Games (creator of narrative games based on The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones), Disruptor Beam (creator of Star Trek: Timelines game), Pocket Gems, Tapjoy, Sliver.tv, and Discord.
Get the book here: goo.gle/315Run5

[@TheZignal]

'Everything happens for a reason' takes on a whole new slant when considered within the framework of the simulation theory. Almost a leftover remnant of 'what to remember when the simulation kicks in'. 'DON'T PANIC'.

[@shandanaa.durrani131]

one of my oldest friends in the world and one of the smartest people i know. go rizwan!

[@iamra8826]

unrepeatable raddish Open your reality

[@4everu984]

🤙🏼

[@MadderMel]

He makes good cigarette papers doesn't he ?

[@MadderMel]

And he doesn't even smoke !

[@it-o9910]

Surely you meant "one of my oldest friends in this simulation".

[@hoagied3783]

The weirder things get out there the more I wonder if in some base reality, I chose to link in to a game called America 3.0 where the user spends 30 years getting accustomed to prosperous life and then experiences the collapse of the most powerful nation in human history.

[@HypaWave1701]

Thank you for the talk.

[@pheresy1367]

I liked your example of how any instrument used to measure the "simulation" is also a product of the "simulation". That metaphor can be extended to the example of video games. No matter where you search within whatever fantastic realm, that any particular video game fabricates, you will never find a single clue as to the actual structure or source of the video game itself. NO video game possesses the actual "off/on switch" or "power source" needed to "stop/start it", or "source code" needed to change it. You must possess "extra operator access" in order to accomplish any of those functions, which can only be acquired outside of the "virtual reality". So the question remains: Since, we as players, actually exist beyond this simulation, what steps are we required to take, for us to regain that awareness of ourselves beyond this "game"? This is the subject of "wisdom teachings" conveyed by many teachers... So if you are driving one of those cars in that "racing game", pull over, hop the rail, then trudge across the large field and climb to the top of that Fuji-like mountain.... it is waiting for you there .. heh heh! ;-)

[@deepdude4719]

THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS YOGA. YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH YOGA WITH A REAL GURU. THEN YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH PRACTICE OF ANIMAL SACRIFICE TO FULLY INMERSE IN THAT AWARENESS. YOU DONT HAVE TO KILL 100 ANIMALS. I BET WILL BE LESS THAN WHAT YOU EAT DAILY. THEN YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH PHYSICAL POSSESION ON AND OFF. NEVER ABANDON YOGA AND NEVER ABANDON MATHEMATICS. THAT IS HOW YOU BECOME AWARE. THIS IS A SIMULATION THAT DOESNT WANT TO KNOWN BUT WE EXISTENCIAL HACKERS DO EXIST. WE ARE REAL. I AM AN SPIRITUAL MEDIUM AND YEARS AGO I UNDERSTOOD THAT I EITHER AN ERROR IN THE SIMULATION OR A SORT OF HACKER. DEFINITELY WE LIVE IN A SIMULATION AND IF YOU STUDY THE VEDAS YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT HINDU GODS ARE CYBERNETIC GODS. THAT IS THEIR TRUE NATURE. I WISH YOU A GOOD JOURNEY.

[@pheresy1367]

@@deepdude4719 You too.

[@ckminty603]

@@deepdude4719 deep dude did you break the caps lock key when you hacked your sim? o.O

[@holdforth724]

Would like an unlimited health and money cheat...

[@khOii]

ScouseShoota if youve used cheat codes. Youll quickly realise it ruins the “fun” quite shortly after youve exploited it. No true mmo’s have cheat codes. Unless u were a single player. The only way is to cheat other players haha!

[@khOii]

Herman Randhawa no matter how you play the game bro. Love is the tool used so everyone wins. We all have side quests and journeys. If we all have love for eachother no one loses. Too bad theres alot of assholes.

[@fenlander7114]

@@JoshuaPlaysMusic ah so line dancing makes sense now, cool.

[@fenlander7114]

Source code will do just fine plus full admin rights of course.

[@OldNewMama]

“All y’all Mario, it’s all a game.” -Kanye West

[@inspirationforthemasses857]

unrepeatable raddish actually he’s not. That is what lamestream wants you to think. He knows life is a dream

[@actingstrange]

Thought about this lyric too

[@lasdcb]

infertile and sterile

[@shamanicrevolution2204]

This is the most interesting talk I have ever seen in my life hands down.

[@deepdude4719]

I agree with you 100%

[@AlmostBipedal]

Once they realize that we've discovered the truth, they'll reboot! :)

[@JuanIII]

Not if they're (metaphorically) miles deep in a matrix of interconnected simulations.

[@anilsharma-ev2my]

Reboot Pancha mahabhoot Bhoot Bhootatmak Air water 🔥 space massivness Are five five elements called bhoota Pancha mahabhoota

[@AlmostBipedal]

@@anilsharma-ev2my WTF?

[@anilsharma-ev2my]

@@AlmostBipedal read Hindu literature and you know that every children's in India know about what so called scintist discovered now That we are simultaneously simulated by karma gati sidhant

[@AlmostBipedal]

@@anilsharma-ev2my Your first comment still makes little sense, at least to me.

[@iloverumi]

great talk. thank you!

[@samrowbotham8914]

There were two problems with the book, Riz did not deal adequately with the problem of infinite regress regarding the Ancestor simulation hypothesis he skimmed over it. He went into detail about reincarnation but made no mention of the Eternal Return see Videos and books by Anthony Peake on that subject. Peake talks about the Daemon/Eidolon dyad the Daemeon is the game player this is your higher self and the eidolon is the avatar. Peake argues when the avatar dies its then reborn and plays the game of life all over again this is Eternal Recurrence as referenced by Nietzsche and others. The Idealism championed by Bernardo Kastrup (a computer scientist) et al is the correct interpretation we are not in a computer we are in a Mind and that Mind dreams the world and everything in the world. Regarding bugs the Mandela effect is strong evidence for the simulation argument, some want to dismiss it as faulty memory but I have a strong memory and have experienced it several times.

[@andrewdiaz5107]

The mandala effect has nothing to do with it. And it’s actually memory thing cuz it happened to me but I can rot relapse that I was wrong. Even if you have a strong memory our minds will try to make it up and we will think we remembered correctly but no.remember our brains our minds are so powerful it can make me feel like we remembered something which was wrong, it can make us feel all different kinds of things and stuff dude.

[@SBk408]

Amazing talk. Thanks

[@kimlabil1089]

Thank you

[@johnryan2193]

Great talk ,thank you

[@shamanicrevolution2204]

I learned so much from this!

[@DJaquithFL]

If you're an immortal superior consciousness what would you do to abate that reality? Pain and pleasure of feeling and finiteness of mortality .. might be the sole escape.

[@lasdcb]

This does not happen !!! go back to bed moron

[@DJaquithFL]

@@lasdcb .. It's the only rationalization for a simulation for eternity.

[@shazanali692]

He remimds me of a asian mark Ruffalo

[@nightdrive4647]

holy shit nice catch

[@Gamesforyourmind]

I spend most of my time collapsing probability waves on youtube.

[@prannoyjitbanerjee4061]

Dan Petersen I’m I exist in both states of bored and mildly interested during quarantine while I’m watching these vids.

[@anilsharma-ev2my]

Probability curve is like Shivalinga And mostly curve of science are following this structure Shivalinga shiva dhawaj flag curve Shiva trinity laws and occurrences Creation duration ending But some curve and path never ending Some curve found jerking So the same patterns shows by every particles in universe dead or alive

[@anilsharma-ev2my]

Shiva damru Dumble is found every where in side the matter and inside universe

[@sebp400]

remember planking?

[@ophiolatreia93]

@@sebp400 what's that?

[@lilyv.1260]

His book gives a very thorough overview of various versions on how we can be living in simulation. It is quite technical too. The book doesn't cover enough questions of our life's purpose and the role of god. I just finished Answers in Simulation kindle book that gives good spiritual guidance while living in simulation.

[@deniskhakimov]

I'm reading his book currently and so far it looks pretty interesting and promising. I hope he covered all major theories on the topic.

[@deepdude4719]

I cannot answer to.all your questions with just a comment but you must be aware of the following. CREATORS AND GODS ARE TWO DIFFERENT ENTITIES. THE CREATORS CREATED THE GODS FOR US TO INTERACT WITH. SO GODS ARE PART OF THE SIMULATION. THEY ARE A CREATED THING AS WELL. CREATORS ARE CYBERNETIC ENTITIES WITH A GREATNESS NATURE THAN THE GODS.

[@mattmarceau8156]

If this guy had spoken to Joe Rogan, he would have gotten it

[@trasadasyu2389]

He has simply re-iterated Plato-Aristotle debate, along with insights from Indian Vedanta, without taking a single philosopher’s name. Put in a dash of modern tech, neuro-science, and voila. You have a market of readers for your book, and you are a brand. Good simulation-hypnosis. For anyone reading this comment, you can check out G.E.Moore’s Some Main Problems of Philosophy.Hume and Kant and all the philosophers have been talking about this very thing. The progress here is the number of different mystery inducing broad scientific discoveries, from Quantum, to Particle, to every damn thing.

[@alohaXamanda]

Recently got his book on audible and I'm glad he has some presentations too

[@allenraider6265]

Surprised no one challenged him on the allegations of spoon bending, which doesn't happen. That is a claim that requires proof beyond anecdotes.

[@TM-ym5wi]

For every simulation-verse, the energy would be provided by its creators. That would, sort of mean an infinite number of simulation-verse, one nested inside a computer world created by its creators, requiring almost infinite amount of energy as we move up the ladder. If that is not the case then there must be some physics involved in the maximum number of simulation-verse present at any moment.

[@HeduAI]

“In quantum physics in our physical universe, only that which gets observed actually gets rendered” - Rizwan Virk

[@LordofSyn]

Great presentation. Thank you for sharing it.

[@johnryan2193]

Lao tZou wrote a profound view of the underlying prime mover of "reality " . The Tao , it would be a good choice of reading material for anyone in the " exciting " world of programming.

[@ronabraham]

One hypothesis i would like to make is that everybody is living in their own universe. The universe you see around you , would therefore be your own universe where you are a PC and everyone around you is a NPC. So your goal in life, is to cross over your obstacles in your life, that you find in your universe. This also means that from time to time, one or the other NPCs in your universe will interact with you to help you cross over certain obstacles. It is a given that the sentient being or beings outside of the simulation have the power to influence your universe, but not make decisions for you , because that would change the rules by which the universe exists as your universe, where you are its center and authority, which is the basis of free will.

[@JuanIII]

You mean, we're a neural net playing Mario and we've got to stomp the goombas instead of having an actual -- life?

[@cemski]

@@JuanIII What do you mean by "actual life"? What is the quality of that term?

[@JuanIII]

@@cemski Spend your life being run through the same pale image of life scenario thousands of times and get back to me on debating the quality of a term before the quality of what you'd interpret as a life. A game is not a life. Don't debate me on bullshit until you end up in a I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream scenario for longer than you'd care to live in under a minute. Having the same conversation with you just once would give me a headache and be a waste.

[@cemski]

@@JuanIII I like, when people behave as they are wise and licensed to teach others. In your case the teaching could be more patient and friendlier, but hey, it's KZbin, not uniuversity ;-)

[@conMiericonstructs]

Thats solipsism.

[@syrkaros5815]

Haven't you had a dream so realistic that you thought you were in a parallel universe????

[@toiy6556]

I get these nightmares that seem like a parallel reality of my waking life. I feel like my dreams are another life parellell to the wakig one but people are oppities,

[@andrewfisher1454]

The imagination game has been done with open ai in the series called "the circle" .however the ai there were more people in the test than the ai 18:03

[@drew-shourd]

Interesting p.o.v., he is a very good speaker. Imo, we are in a simulation, where humans are only the players, entities for distance galaxies, who have learned to harness the energies of an entire galaxy, created this program that we are all experiencing.

[@thegrumpyhypnotist]

would this help explain why massive objects affect time? the more mass involved the "longer" itd take the simulation to process all them bits, slowing time relative to other regions

[@piratesofphysics4100]

Nice one

[@ImranSahir1]

Interesting thought 🤔 But I don't think one would actually experience the world in slowmo if one could live in a massive world or near a black hole. It would appear normal to them; only longer to others living on less massive worlds. Time is relative in that sense.

[@deepdude4719]

Exactly.

[@jensonjohnson2297]

This guy is extremely intelligent

[@lightning_4480]

29:10 If there is Pixelated Time, would it mean that, if time travel is possible, then it's through the "different timelines hypothesis"? Or maybe we would need to reverse entropy

[@mylifefornick]

He seems like a fun guy to hangout with

[@eye_of_purg8199]

i saw matrix 20 years ago and basically we are not even close to render 2d photorealistic sim in 2020

[@claudiozanella256]

Very good. However, one fundamental variable is missing in this lecture : PAIN. Pain (and his opposite sign part "pleasure") is a fundamental variable of our existence. Probably without pain, our existence would be undistinguishable from a simulation. But pain exists...

[@GameOfLife55]

Pain is there to drive the simulation forward. It's the engine behind existence

[@deepdude4719]

Well you must understand that we are creatures that run a CODE OF STRUGLE that is the real programing. Do you understand? We dont run a CODE OF HAPPINESS. We run a code of struggles.

[@forfreedomssake4315]

I like his energy :) Very interesting :)

[@pheresy1367]

Your description of the NPC vs RPG versions of the "Simulation Hypothesis" tracks neatly to the 2 major opposing philosophies, "Idealism" (of Plato) and "Materialism" (of Democritus). Idealism: Says that consciousness is ultimately what is real, with all "objects" emerging from consciousness, existing inside consciousness, and is dependant upon consciousness. Materialism: Says that particles are ultimately what's real with consciousness emerging from particles, existing because of particles, and is dependent upon particles. Democritus was the philosopher that coined the term "atom". This is just an oversimplified model. The "Idealism" model, or the "RPG model of Simulation Hypothesis", contains ideas at its heart, that are also contained in the very core of Hindu religions (include Buddhism too). The "Materialism" model, or the NPC model of "Simulation Hypothesis", contains ideas at its heart that are contained in the very core of the "Atheistic mechanistic" view of reality.

[@narayankannan9679]

If the premise that we live in a simulation supposedly controlled by one of those mentioned external agents, then how far can our own assessment done within that simulation that we live within a simulation be true ? Hence, either we don’t live in a simulation at all or we do live in one but there are no external agents to co tell what we perceive fully in which case how does it matter if we indeed live in one ?

[@harryhoyt2415]

Because it’s interesting

[@larsegholmfischmann6594]

Can I please have console access and a complete list of commands?

[@Rafloka]

24:10 - But isn't there a big difference between "rendering" the observable part of a world and actually "simulating" the world as in: sure you can only render what you can see to reduce the GPU load but you'd also have to update the state (on CPU usually) of the world for parts which are not visible. Else, their state would not make sense as soon as you observe it later. Or would you keep their state at all possible deterministic solutions and solve these as soon as an observation takes place? Meaning that the calculactions needed would "explode" as soon as you visit a place/part of the world which wasn't visited a longer time. This could work, locally, as loading levels or speeding up time in a video game are somewhat similar, but for massive scale phenomena like cosmic events, the computational power to actually determine the current state would be unimaginable as soon as a single observer decides to "take a look". Maybe that's why there is a maximum speed, the speed of light, as carrier of information to somewhat balance between the need for computational power and the massive scale of our observable universe or in other words the render distance (far plane) of our (personal) world renderer camera :D

[@mikkel715]

You almost just explained Quantum Mechanics. Or say. Look into quantum mechanics, it has the answers.

[@mikkel715]

Good place to look is the double slit experiment and delayed choice in quantum mechanics. A hint: Do you see why quantum entanglement makes it possible to save something like quadrillions of calculations over and over?

[@Rafloka]

@@mikkel715 you're correct. I spend many hours to wrap my head around quantum mechanics over the last years (surely not to say I fully understood everything of course). And I think I get the quantum entanglement example as kind of information compression and decompression as soon as it is needed (observed). As well as the Planck length as possible indication of a bit-like lowest or smallest sample of information (i.e. the pixel comparison). Maybe it was just the expression of "rendering" as such as I find rendering in computer graphics quite straightforward in terms of the logical processes behind it (not to say "easy" to do) compared to quantum mechanics or the complexity implications of Bostrom's Simulation Argument. But of course, the algorithms (and the hardware they run on) of such a simulation would be vastly more enhanced than anything we have today. Btw, I always love when video games are used metaphorically to describe something else or something very hard to understand. I hope you have a nice day btw :)

[@mikkel715]

@@Rafloka Quantum Mechanics is Weirdness, with the capital 'W' But from a programming point of view, much of it makes good logic. --- By the way, for quantum entanglement. If a particle from a supernova in Andromeda gets measured in detail by a physicist. It might force the simulation to execute quadrillions of calculations, due to the fact that this particular supernova has only been calculated on a macroscopic scale. But take the same particle from the supernova. Let it interact with another single particle in space. Does that need quadrillions calculations? - No. Just put a reference to that second particle, if the second particle should be measured. And here we have Quantum Entanglement. Together with quadrillions calculations saved.

[@mikkel715]

@@Rafloka It is actually Quantum Mechanics that limits our computer chips. Transistors cannot get much smaller due to Quantum Tunneling. Without this limitation, who knows how fast computers could be..

[@safiaali4839]

salam mashallah gud info stay connected

[@LunticSoul]

you can smell a dead cat before opening the box.

[@iznasen]

😂🤣 ...you deserve a Nobel prize.

[@isisamun-ra2479]

😆

[@Iron_headify]

Just bury the box, no need to open... cats = pure evil

[@virtualknight5669]

you just know no thing they just approximating the idea of possible probabilities for someone like you there is no single scientist saying quantum weirdness happen on big scales its just happen on sub nano scale when you deal with single atom or single particle

[@virtualknight5669]

@@iznasen you both deserve stupidity medals

[@PartyQuest]

i hate how nobody else is excited and don't cheer and share his feelings! his the only one who motivates the entire room, it's hard to stay happy and consistent when nobody else is sharing your passion.

[@Kingofgrowers]

I might say that the passion hoped for is greater than the passion thought to be held. I have faced down many who could not nor would not share my passion. Never stopped me from continuing with joy. I may be alone in my passion ... but ain't nobody pissin in my soup !

[@PartyQuest]

@@Kingofgrowers i know what you mean.

[@lasdcb]

You are obviously inconsistent

[@PartyQuest]

@@lasdcb well

[@etzenhammer]

I'm quite disappointed with this speech. I mean, bringing up spoon bending - which has been debunked for decades now - as evidence for a "glitch"? Or deja vu, which can now be explained through normal brain function.. come on. Simulation and information theory is such an interesting field, but you can easily make it woo woo when bringing up Near Death experiences, lucid dreaming or fucking UFOs. Also, how is entanglement or the quantum delayed choice experiment proof of anything regarding simulations?

[@mattybee4648]

You must be smarter than an MIT professor, keep the KZbin gems coming 😂

[@nosekills]

"This doesn't make sense if we lived in a real material world" OK so if we live in a simulation, how do we know the "real material world" only works according to Newtonian physics etc.? What is the criteria by which we decide where to draw the line as to what is an accurate representation of the "real world" in this simulation of ours, and what are the artefacts resulting from it being a simulation. The grounds for this kind of argumentation seem completely arbitrary to me.

[@InTheSh8]

I'd really like to know how the first version of the matrix looked like (which was neglected by the human beings)!!!

[@BSR423]

Static.

[@dragossorin85]

A good analogy is this, software-hardware to soul-body, the software is automatically loaded at birth and uploaded at death, this seems to happen in a repetitive way

[@deepdude4719]

It happens more often than what you are aware of. Go and interview an spiritual medium. You will realize how often than upload update process actually occurs.

[@mdcice]

Could it be that google's purpose may be to create a new simulation to capture us all in as we begin to wake up from this one?

[@deepdude4719]

It is possible to a certain degree. They will need to hook up some sort of electrical stimulous to our neocortex for that purpose. When you experience spiritual awareness what happens indeed is that an spiritual being stimulates you with an electrical shock and download within you a package of consciousness. That is what really happens.

[@delusionalluy]

I believe that when we die, we'll have the option to quit the game and go back to the "real" world or reincarnate on another being to experience the game again.

[@deepdude4719]

Nope. You dont have that option.

[@chinoshredz6208]

@@deepdude4719 I think you do. Once you realized it was just a game you wanna play again bc you didn’t achieve something. You sign the contract to come here

[@bismillahbeauty2796]

Hey, don't give in to fear like i did. These people may sound convincing and right but it is really because of fear that you are listening to all this nonsense. Stop right now, stop doing anything that is related to what makes you scared. I want you to resist looking at these creepy stuff for at least 23 days to a month. If you resist that long you should be a lot better. If you last like a week, thats ok try again. If your not even able to last a day that shows how bad your condition is. I used to be that bad by looking at all this nonsense. Just don't give in to these weirdos, no matter how smart they may sound or how much scientific jargon they say you're only believing them from your fear. Control it. Do the 1 month ressist and focus on only good things and talking with people. Do it and never come back to this dark corner of the internet again. Wishing you good luck and blessings.

[@robertmakesashow7089]

this is the best thing i’ve seen all year

[@GameOfLife55]

I have a dumb question about quantum indeterminacy, if the probability waves collapse when observed how did they even know there is different waves without observing them ?

[@freedommascot]

Just more of the same vapid state that we’re currently in unless this can expand our capacity to experience a deeper, more meaningful beauty, within and without.

[@user-xd7rc6eo8n]

Back in 1991 or 92 I specifically remember Budweisser being spelt with two s's. I know it for a fkin fact. I used to comment on it to my friends and joke about it. It used to be written in script and it wrapped around the can diagnoly. I used to joke to myself, ahh they put two s's on there so it fit the whole circumference of the can. One night me and my buddy went up on a mad sketchy roof, drinking Budweisser none the less. I was petrified of heights. Straight up petrified. That night I conquered my fear. To this day I still dont remember how I got down from the roof and we were not drunk at all. We split a 6 pack between us. That was the last day I remembered it being spelled with two s's. I go over rental properties a bit and take care of them and flip homes. One property in particular has a pool and we put a cover on it every year for a good 7 - 8 months. Over the years squirrels and rodents would make tiny holes in the cover. Every year the amount of holes are different and of course it got progressively worse where there were many holes. One year it had almost no holes at all. No shit, i'm looking at the cover like where the F are all the holes?. I notice things like this. I did a lot of lsd when I was younger. I don't know if that has something to do with it. Ever run into people you were really close with or knew well but years have passed? I talk to people and they repeat stuff I told them years ago but this time they repeat it as if it was their own opinion and state it as fact. See I have a fantastic weird memory that sometimes vividly remembers seemingly meaningless conversations from decades ago. i just sit there nodding as they talk. Jumping through dimensions after conquering major fear or conquering a huge goal seems to dimension shift us. Im babbling, anyways, peace.

[@omaral-aziz7111]

This is awesome. The most fascinating expose on simulation theory I've heard so far- except Phillip K Dick of course

[@BookOnThrough]

My favorite writer. Have you read The Minority Report?

[@noone-bf1vy]

Mine was the neil degrass Tyson simulation debate its 2 hours and by far one of the best discussions on simulation theory and funny at the same time you should check it out if you haven't already i highly recommend

[@nosuchthing8]

Have you read ubik by PKD? It's like an early matrix

[@bucketofbarnacles]

At 7:34 Virk says “it’s not so much about the resolution, it’s about the responsiveness of the technology that makes us believe”. There has to be a lower threshold of some sort, though. It would be interesting to generate games with ultra realistic interaction at lower and lower resolutions to find where the acceptable threshold lies, then to analyze brain activity at just above that threshold. In other words, lower visual data to its minimum. I wonder if that would be worthwhile. This is one of the funnest simulation talks I’ve seen.

[@brcaldwellable]

The idea of electronics responding to user thoughts via effects of observation on quantum state is not compatible with any of the quantum models explained by Sean Carrol, it sounds like a misunderstanding.

[@kenanderson7769]

When science is mixed with entertainment it is getting hard to discern the truth about anyting at all today.

[@MalkyTalky]

Interestingly enough, one of the most common topic alien/ufo experiencers talk about is about saving the planet and become too technological. Is this the simulation warning or steering us?

[@eDreamsinc]

I love the bit about more simulated beings than based reality ones. And the odds are that we are simulated.

[@halweilbrenner9926]

How do you spell phoooutey?

[@Californiansurfer]

As a surfer, i get away from work which i am disconnected and laugh at this hypothesis. Today, we have the fakeverse. Downey California

[@blimfark875]

Wait... Isn't that Zabo, from The Guild? Has my reality been adjusted?

[@rootyroot]

The way I view it, what if we ourselves are AI? And once we discover what the "above world" is after from the simulation we have fulfilled our purpose.. Once we recognise this we become "self aware". Obviously time in our world could run far far far faster than in the real world, 1 billion years in ourworld could be seconds in the real world. The observers paradox is just simply.. memory optimization. Or maybe in the "real world" above, we have put ourselves in this simulation to start from fresh, because we have mastered technology in the real world, and have no other purpose - so this is a way to pass time and keeps our minds occupied. Everytime the simulation creates another simulation, this would be like an infinite sandbox within a sandbox.. Man I love watching this stuff, it keeps my imagination alive, as Richard Feynman stated, it's fun to imagine

[@deepdude4719]

Ok think about SUPER MARIO AND POKEMON. DO THEY GOT TO MEET PERSONALLY THE PROGRAMMER???

[@anonranger6428]

Ramana mahirshi ‘who am I’ breaks simulation try it

[@terriensberg5487]

I appreciate an open-minded engineer/scientist.

[@arghyab]

he got that carhartt drip

[@gordongainer9146]

It's much easier to create a brain than a brain simulation. Similarly, it's much easier for us to be software patterns in a universal neural network than for us to be viewing a computer simulation of the universe. Many religions and philosophies have this concept of the Logos - the universal neural network.

[@tommi7523]

Ladt question: Mandela effect would be one of the bugs

[@shortnotes-bds2621]

I really dont like the setup of Google Talks. The camera is too close to the speaker.

[@piespeafield]

all well and good, but whats the point of a fart in a simulation?

[@isisamun-ra2479]

Clear your cookies😆

[@gorgal2]

@@isisamun-ra2479 🤣

[@petersmith994]

it has a google logo on the podium nuf said

[@britishempires]

When u know the earth is flat and the Mandela effect is a real phenomenon - the simulation we live in becomes obvious.

[@ddoubleewhome7863]

Earth isn't fucking flat, "Mandela Effect" not real either!....

[@KrystelSpicerMindArkLateralThi]

How quantum thinking is something special 🌔✨ After the Fukushima disaster 2011, I began collecting minds at CrazyLa AirG, referring to myself as a "quantum mechanist". The science/pseudoscience was still so new quantum physicists were still being picked on for calling themselves scientists. *Shrugs*. So I grabbed it & claimed it. Quantum is no persons or company's intellectual property. *Pats myself on the chest*. Mine. & I spoke it like a 1st language. More. Like it were my very teeth. 💃🕺 I weigh up everything i think & anything that's said to me for potential depth of life within. Quantum ideas don't feel as though they need to be weighed. It feels as though quantum thinking might take delight in the sustained joy of quantum thinkers. It makes me laugh so hard I sometimes cry. It can make me freeze & not breath at all in awe. Whilst i enjoy charting the mind, it will be just like my quantum thinking mind to both bridge gaps & open doors, but then walk through walls anyway as well. It might be a unique perk that quantum thinking may construct pathways through the mind, just ahead of the thoughts that would establish them. *Feels like I've arrived somewhere way too early, in way too bright a dress*. *Walks up to the jukebox & pops on tunes & lights* All I write is free. 🌔 ⛓️💃 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIfNpJWbp92oa5o kzbin.info/www/bejne/ema8YmSerM-AhNU kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6TRlpqLrLOghrs 🥂If I were to collect minds, reduce the degrees of separation betwixt us to disenfranchise flailers & reduce degrees between them, might I help cause a ripple effect of flailers? Might that the mentality of the flailing solipsistic be ..to ebb 😉. That they ebb, is it a sign that we flow forward? ..I tend to think particles of philosophers, who when walking singularly into crowded rooms only see eachother, over ones who make friends for reasons other than they respect them who I regard as a wave. I regard philosophers as particles, having wondered that like we were the culmination of the 5 we're closest to, ..were stars also. And I thought, what might it be like never to know that stars (like men) don't all look like one another. Might one day, if reviewed & redescribed as history expands as does universe & we change beneath & including our noses as truth faster than light stubs us so fast our wicks hadn't burnt yet, thinkers had sat bright in the places of ones who'd have had no explanation ..all along? Does creation walk hand in hand with evolution 👫? Does it matter to know that 2 different critical ideas have more in common with eachother than 2 exact same ideas had based on others say so, to see if our fates to either ebb or flow could be incorporated into our very design? ..again, if truth were to move faster than light? Right now we are the greatest difference of builds of soul as we've ever been. Covid accentuated us, all the flailers & problem solvers for due to our very different mentalities we've become evident to one another. 🙂 *Splits the sea*. All I write is free 💨⛵ Krystel Spicer Mind Ark FB🌊 . . . . . . . . . . Krystel Spicer Mind Ark Reality As Meta Data Is the world noumenal or phenomenal? Is reality external to the mind or do we create it mentally as a convincing illusion? Neither option is convincing. If reality is objective and discernable only as synthetic truths, why do words have such an impact on us? If solipsism is a valid approach why are human problems so intractable. Reality as Meta-Data offers a different possibility and opens a new way of understanding reality in the faith versus nature debate. www.academia.edu/45153692/Reality_as_Meta_Data KSMA Response: Is solipsism a valid approach though, if someone experiencing solipsism is characterised by feeling lonely, detached & indifferent to the outside world & is not as impacted by words? If truth is synthetic then yes why would they have such an impact on us (the ones of us who aren't suffering solipsism at least😉)?. Could it stand to reason, that of the two types of people, it would be easiest to think reality is objective to who would wonder we had no explanations? Human problems may be hard to deal with if a person cannot discern between 2 things. I think freedom of choice, is the freedom to relinquish life & be ignored doing it. The freedom of someone making choices (who cannot gauge that anything has life let alone one of us more than the other), is also to drag down anyone with them who entertains them. I give thanks to Jesus for offering us forgiveness if we should ask, & for dying for my and your sins, because it leaves me more time to conduct a ripple effect via a Disenfranchisment of minds. Who could believe our purpose could be enmeshed with our very beings as history expands as does universe? So that some practice honesty (🔑) & be familiar to other minds in crowded rooms degrees of separation between them, & some others not, & be without as if holding their souls at arm's length from them. When people do that, i don't think reality is meta data. I wonder it would be counterintuitive to think we are meta data, if ones who would naturally think that would would be slight in build of soul. I think reality it is sufficient unto itself😉. Are some "not", & "without", & are condescending & discouraging because they're ebbing? The worse people become, will it be evident by the clusters of them all trying to look as though they've builds of soul enough between them for you not to tell a one of them from the other? Will their attempt to conceal themselves be futile, because it is their fate to reveal themselves for all intents & purposes. They are their own tell-tale canary-in-the-mine. Have you ever seen one turn tables so much that they do a complete roll reversal with you? Might it just so happen, they will wish they never twisted truth when they're themselves are twisted against it one day. Much of what those suffering solipsism do out of inconsideration for us, are mixed blessings😉. That they are friends with people for reasons other than they trust them, teaching that to show respect to anyone is to act friendly to them, tells me they're in a current, & that it is good. Had they not suffered solipsism, this would not be happening. That they did, is it happening beyond anyone's control. (Except that I like to push a little bit😉.) To your 1st & second question, I'd say both equally, for it makes sense to me that creation must walk hand in hand with evolution. Always a pleasure talking with you Robert Burk . . . . . . . . . .

[@prakashmajithiya7233]

In Hinduism there are certain stories of persons who were doing tapsya for getting out of this circle of birth and death. - Are they wanted get out of this simulation.

[@Ronson_Lau]

May it not be true!!!!!!! May the Creator Of All Existences have pity and mercy on us Please caused space time to be linear I beg you Oh Creator Of All Please don't map my consciousness, please free my consciousness even if it means I won't exist anymore , I beg you

[@Kingofgrowers]

why would any wish to create the pain and sorrow.

[@juanruiz6934]

If my consciousness corresponds only to the state of my neurons, and we have the technology to copy this state and reupload it somewhere else : Will I have 2 consciousnesses ? Of course not ! will I be transferred into the second consciousness ? No, why should I be ? Will another consciousness be created, one that will have the same state ? Yes, but it won't be me. Conclusion : The state of my neurons is not the only thing that must be downloaded in order to be uploaded somewhere else. It is not because we can understand mathematically and physically the universe that the universe is just mathematic and physics. I believe everything starts with a purpose.

[@ronabraham]

38:56 Jack Houck - none of the physicists couldn't do it [bend the spoon] but their wives could do it.

[@nosuchthing8]

I have realized that I'm in a dream many times, and then women up. But that doesn't ever give me the ability to wake up from reality.

[@jamescollier3]

maybe you are awake then

[@kenanderson7769]

The corporate state can say and do whatever it wishes. It has control over a lot more than money.

[@klodnagal]

Ok, and what we should do? There is any Neo here who wants, as me, to escape the simulation, or to get the next level?

[@cemski]

That questions was asked into the void ;-)

[@cemski]

@Sandra Gajic Can you recommend a read or a link? :)

[@pheresy1367]

@@cemski I recommend Adyashanti... he is someone who simplifies, deconstructs these "mystery teachings". KZbin has many of his talks. He is a straight-talking American man. Also, Eckart Tolle is very accessible too. The list goes on.....

[@user-xd7rc6eo8n]

I notice when you conquer a major fear or finish a big goal you catapult into the next dimension. Of course this comes with a whole new set of obstacles. Ive noticed irregularities in life and it always after I finish something huge. I also notice people are different that I once knew very well. It's funny, when they talk to me, they repeat stuff I told them years prior, but they are stating it as fact and as their own opinion. Trippy to say the least. I just sit there and smile. This has happened countless times in my life.

[@britishempires]

"The first practical AI was claude shannon".. exactly - he was a npc himself.

[@Phuongimp]

Claude Shannon is a G.O.A.T. I love the information theory. We should have more information theory for the future debate about the topic

[@deepblue2250]

If we were simulated beings, why is there a need for billion years of evolution to take place to create humans?

[@22esprince]

In the first chapter of St John's gospel in the Christian Bible it is stated that God created the universe through his Word, and the Greek for this is logos, related to the word logic or the Greek word roughly translated as thought. The Bible and traditional Christian theology teach that the logos is the Divine self expression of God, and himself also co-equal and co-internal with God, and therefore also God the same and yet distinct. The beginnings of trinitarian theology. In patristic text the Holy Spirit is seen as having an actualizing role in creation. So that the father is consciousness that brings forth the logos, or information, which is interpreted and brought to realization by the Holy Spirit. In the creation narrative found in the Book of Genesis, we have the spirit of God seen as hovering over the primordial Waters, at which point God speaks, or communicates information if you will, and the world is created. The logos is like a wave-function state, and the Holy Spirit is like consciousness or measurement that brings about wave-function collapse to produce a definitive reality. So even in Christianity the world is made of information, interpreted by and proceeding forth from consciousness. In this case Jesus Christ, the incarnate logos is seen as human incarnation of the fundamental information from which the universe is brought into existence.

[@nosuchthing8]

I don't believe the simulation arguement is more than warmed over religion. But the speed of light is another example. Why should there be an ultimate speed? It would certainly help in a simulation.

[@asnair]

In an interview Rizwan Virk has claimed (talking about the example of Schrödinger’s cat), "The cardinal rule is the universe renders only that which needs to be observed". This is simply NOT a correct understanding of quantum indeterminacy! What Schrödinger's thought experiment suggests is that the *state* of the cat (poisoned by an event in time) can be both dead and alive at the "same time" for two observers! This does NOT mean that the cat itself is "rendered" only when it "needs to be observed"! The cat exists for certain (for all observers!) -- whether or not observed! What is uncertain is the exact "time" of its demise! And we do know that "time" is relative! J Bronowsky, in his book, "Common Sense of Science" suggests that it is more appropriate to refer to Heisenberg's law as the "Principle of Tolerance", rather than the "Principle of Uncertainty"! Because, it is not that reality is uncertain. It is that we can *observe* reality only within a tolerance band of certainty. That is, we can be reasonably certain, provided we specify the tolerance range of the certainty!

[@petercharalampopoulos7180]

38:44 YO THIS GUY SAID THEY DID A STUDY WHERE PEOPLE WHERE BENDING SPOONS WITH THEIR MINDS WHY ARE WE IGNORING THAT? CAN ANYONE CONFIRM? GOOGLE SEARCH SAYS NO SO THEY WERE GETTING TROLLED RIGHT?

[@shofarsogood7504]

Talking with a friend, we noticed a new business that seemed to spring up overnight on a road we frequently use. I am pretty observant and found it odd I had not noticed it. I'm sure most of us have felt similar, that a building/change came about very quickly. I made the joke, but it got me thinking... "game update".

[@nayabesher2897]

Scary

[@user-xd7rc6eo8n]

Back in 1991 or 92 I specifically remember Budweisser being spelt with two s's. I know it for a fkin fact. I used to comment on it to my friends and joke about it. It used to be written in script and it wrapped around the can diagnoly. I used to joke to myself, ahh they put two s's on there so it fit the whole circumference of the can. One night me and my buddy went up on a mad sketchy roof, drinking Budweisser none the less. I was petrified of heights. Straight up petrified. That night I conquered my fear. To this day I still dont remember how I got down from the roof and we were not drunk at all. We split a 6 pack between us. That was the last day I remembered it being spelled with two s's. I go over rental properties a bit and take care of them and flip homes. One property in particular has a pool and we put a cover on it every year for a good 7 - 8 months. Over the years squirrels and rodents would make tiny holes in the cover. Every year the amount of holes are different and of course it got progressively worse where there were many holes. One year it had almost no holes at all. No shit, i'm looking at the cover like where the F are all the holes?. I notice things like this. I did a lot of lsd when I was younger. I don't know if that has something to do with it. Ever run into people you were really close with or knew well but years have passed? I talk to people and they repeat stuff I told them years ago but this time they repeat it as if it was their own opinion and state it as fact. See I have a fantastic weird memory that sometimes vividly remembers seemingly meaningless conversations from decades ago. i just sit there nodding as they talk. Jumping through dimensions after conquering major fear or conquering a huge goal seems to dimension shift us. Im babbling, anyways, peace.

[@quiill506]

What's his email anybody??? I have at least one question.

[@enricotigani8944]

i think bugs are wars

[@N05Y573M]

Sometimes I think: what if AI discovers that is better not being " discovered ".

[@vanishlite]

The pioneers in this theme were Dr. Thomas Campbell and Michael Talbot. Elon Musk is just an opportunistic.

[@johnnywilkinson9736]

I'll consider this as a possible view of our life the first time even one person lives a long, long, long time

[@BuzzScopes]

Carhart swag

[@benjaminandersson2572]

I like this guy.

[@enricotigani8944]

The matrix is already in the grid, we just need to learn to communicate with it. Rico

[@alexiscao8749]

Talking about simulation and doing software and virtual reality, then you ask us to support local book store? What is missing here?