So this is a weird talk

I like that

Yeah, it's not going to give you any actionable insights into your business

Not predicting anything concrete for the future and there's also a bit offensive

Hope everybody's okay with that. If you're the type who gets offended by ideas, I would leave now

Don't worry the next slides not offensive see I like a little bit of time to leave so

If you could all this also, I'm not that much of a visual content producer you saw my first slide

So this this is going to require a bit of an active imagination and

We are all here together going on a journey. And for this talk to work you guys really need to

It's very easy to view these things as applying to the other. It's harder to see them as applying to you

Um, maybe another word that historically has been used. This is a bit of a religious talk

It's faith

now I

May be this word gets a bad rap, maybe faith usually is accepting things that aren't true or provably false

But you just have to accept them on faith and that's charlatanism

when I talk about faith, what I talk about is

Things that aren't provably true or false, um, and I can make arguments

But there is no concrete proof in any of this talk if I had concrete proof. I wouldn't tell you guys

They also might be watching

Like really

Ah, so just you know

Rose basilisk, I don't know if they'll reward you for this or punish you for this but they might be they might be watching right?

Just as if you're in the kernel it's easy for you to watch the memory of any user space process

to the years 2011

I got sued by Sony

Being in a lawsuit is a really trying experience. I had a panic attack. That's real scary

But you know, how do you deal with this kind of stuff? Right? I've made a rap song yelling at Sony

And then kind of you know attempt to prove that I

wasn't like

An unemployable outcast. I got a job at Facebook. I

Quit that job

They tell you they tell you the second day I'm at Facebook

They tell you that the truth, you know Google's all about. We're trying to organize the world's information

The second day. Are there a real slick marketing guy dressed in a suit?

This is back before Google went kind of the way they did now

Google still was kind of tech utopian a facebook says here's number of minutes. The world has spent on Facebook

It's your job as an engineer here to get this number to go up. This is 2011

So it's the end of 2011 and I'm at the movies

But I'm at a movie theater

And everyone's heard this simulation hypothesis. So I'll go through it quickly

Just in case you haven't and maybe because some of the arguments are kind of wishy-washy

So here we are on earth, and we've created a lot of worlds

you may argue that these worlds are not that complex, but

They are

worlds in and of themselves and

We did create them. So if you were

inside one of those worlds

It would be right for you to believe this simulation hypothesis

if you're Mario inside of Super Mario 64 the correct hypothesis to believe is the simulation hypothesis that you're a

simulation created by a higher world

So we can make this graph and put this down here and

Our world is likely a simulation created by no use the word. God. I

Think it's a good word for for our Creator. It's what?

They've been called historically and it stands to reason that they also probably created a bunch of other worlds

Now don't think of God as

Some mystical wizard one could even paint it like looks like Gandalf, right?

you don't think of God as a wizard think of God as a computer programmer because that's probably

Much more likely who created the worlds in our world computer programmers. So what is God God's probably computer programmer

I'm so the simulation hypothesis goes on to say there's this probably a big tree a God probably is not the root node

And so

What are the odds that wear this one?

Well, it seems pretty low. I don't know. Maybe there's like 40 nodes up on that thing. It looks like one in 40

It's probably actually a lot more nodes

You can draw a much bigger tree, but I can go kind of lose its effect on the slide

So yeah odds are we're in a simulation that's the simulation hypothesis 101, so I'm at the movies

I'm walking up to the ticket counter

2011 was it was a rough year. I took something Jeff we could take kratom. It's good. I know it's kind of shitty but

I'm standing there. I'm walking up to the ticket counter

And this comes back to what I said before

It's when I first really realized that the simulation hypothesis applies to me

This isn't some

Hypothetical weird game that's being played here. This is actually my life that's being spoken about I am actually

in a simulation and so are you

I was raised atheist

probably most you all work -

I'm not gonna ask that as a poll question, but I

Was told about the big bang right your fool if you believe in creationism that the world was created

6,000 years ago by uh by a God and I mean this is kind of probably pretty foolish

But then you're told this alternative thing. You're told about the Big Bang and the Big Bang is what created the universe

What created the Big Bang

This doesn't answer any questions

It's one of these I think eliezer yudkowsky talks about them was like like stopping points

Right if you'll ask a religious person

well what created the world god and you ask them what created God all they're like God always is it always will be so maybe

What created the Big Bang?

Well quantum fluctuations in the time space. Okay, what created that?

Right. This is not an answer

um

Look at this guy

For me fuck them Stormwind

His name right? I don't know. It's been a while. So that flights guy. I

Think he's an atheist

Well, if he was an atheist he'd be an idiot just these are his gods

So scarran development team

Has it occurred to everyone in here who's an atheist that you actually may be wrong

All right, the arrogance the arrogance of atheists that's insane it's absolutely insane, um

Take a little aside here

These are the some physics equations, right? So if you believe that our universe is simulate a ball

I think you can go to the church Turing thesis and I think there's like a church Turing

Some guy extended the thesis to said all physical processes are simulated by a Turing machine

And if you believe this you can compute a Turing machine on paper

Right, you're writing out all the equations

carefully for the universe

What do those equations look like when they're simulating a person screaming?

This guy

Really you really see the similarities

You are in a video game

Go back to what I said at the beginning of the talk this talk is gonna require

Imagination and faith, and I want you to take a minute

About a whole minute a minutes actually a really long time

but take a little bit of time and really think that

Maybe you are

They really might be watching this right now

It's unlikely. It's unlikely that they're actually watching it. Probably I mean think about if you had built like a big MMORPG, right?

it's unlikely that the game creators are actually zoomed into your

individual tile right now

Are you sure that's not what happens to you when you die

But really

You know again, I was raised atheist and

You you dismissed the notion of the afterlife and you dismissed the notion of heaven is like almost a childish

fantasy

but

Why is this not true

Like why is this if let's say let's even say let's even go a little more earthly here

Let's say that future me is bored

and like I

Self a videogame. I don't want to enjoy the game, right?

I mean if you really want to enjoy games in the future you're gonna need to

selectively mute

Certain parts of the memory clearly. That's what happened there. Right? So maybe uh,

maybe these were the greatest years of my life and

In the future. I create a video game so I can replay them

And that's where I am right now

Now, I'm not sure about this. I'm not willing to die to find out but

How do you know?

It's easy to dismiss this it's easy to just be like no no. No, I've been set in my ways for many many years, but

There's no real proof or evidence that this isn't true

Let's talk about a little story and they don't go the parable of a caged Tiger. It's about a tiger in a zoo

Um, but it's a nice - it's not like a sad zoo where we put the tiger in a small cage. It's not like that

It's a nice zoo, and the tiger is a in a beautiful lush meadow

With plenty of room to roam and in his youth he does room

he roams from the

fake wall on one side

To the fake trench on the other side

And he knows intellectually the Tigers are in zoos

And the zoos

Keep Tigers and cages

But he says no evidence for this cage

Remember, he's a tiger he only has a tiger brain

And when he

Walks around he doesn't seem to think anything. He can't seem to find any evidence. So

He goes on and Hunt says a tiger

Has a nice tiger family

Nice tiger feather it dies a nice tiger death

Bothered by the fact that he's in a cage

And I've come to you we were human

You live your nice human life

Maybe you haven't been to space but you've heard that humans have been there

You haven't been to the bottom of the ocean, but you heard James Cameron's been there

So you're you're pretty confident that you're not in a cage?

well, but so is the tiger and

What the tiger doesn't see is the zookeeper

You

The zookeeper is so much smarter than the tiger and

I think this is an idea that is finally starting to be accepted

like if you think of yourself as an intelligent agent, um, even the dumbest humans are

Far smarter than the smartest monkeys

But that's it easy to imagine things that are so much smarter than you

And they could build a cage that you couldn't recognize

Who's your zookeeper

This is impossible for you to conceive just as the tiger

You you can't imagine something smarter than you or you can imagine it?

But you can only imagine it in the vaguest terms

If you could imagine a chess player that was as good as Garry Kasparov

You can use your imagination to play chess as good as Garry Kasparov, right? Just ask your imagination what the imaginary version would do?

And you every move?

You can't imagine the zookeeper, but you can't rule it out

you

So if we're in a video game, are you a player character or non player character

What's the difference

Since I like his player just know that they're in a game

Ah

Maybe I'll do this show of hands how many people seriously consider this is a possibility

All right, so how do we get out

So we're probably running in a data center somewhere

Like this

Interesting

Up there. It's not here. The Dennison is not here

I want you to think about the computer that's running Skyrim the computer running Skyrim is not in the Skyrim world

Alfred Strom could walk from these dragon mountains all the way down to the

Lazy Ridge and you wouldn't find any evidence of the computer

So you're not going to find any I'm at the data center looking around here

But what if we could

Let's hack into the computer running the simulation and rewrite the operating systems nature

Every bad thing that happens in the world today

Murder rape yes, you know

Losing $20 dropping them on the sidewalk

Happens because the laws of nature allow these things

Could hack into the computer running nature we could change the rules

We could change the rules governing our simulation. It sucks that we're not in control of it

We're put here

I

Really? Like I really believe this stuff like I sit here like I look around at me and I'm like, I was put here I

Wasn't I didn't ask to be born?

and

It seems like I'm in somebody else's simulation

When I was a

When I was a 8 play this game a lot

Samara well SNES just go in my aunt's house. Like go to basement it. Please game

I probably put I put hundreds of hours into it right. I wanted I wanted to unlock all the all the secrets of the game

and one of nine

Go to Toys R Us ahead. Geoffrey bucks Toys R Us was still around. I bought a game. Genie