postyX - The Simulation Hypothesis

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00:06:57.740 i see you guys down there i see you joe schmoe i don't know if you were hearing me before oh there

00:07:14.740 we are we're back yeah i see you you're saying i'm on caribbean time and you're kind of right

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00:07:36.460 hi donald and joe and uh i thought i saw someone else in here but maybe i'm just blind i'm excited

00:07:43.180 because i love conspiracy theories and this is something i've been looking at well i kind of

00:07:49.220 went down it started with the whole alien thing right and if you guys caught our space and then

00:07:55.700 i uploaded it later with um strange brew podcast he loves conspiracy theories too and i asked him

00:08:02.720 about the alien thing because there was a daily mail article that came out um again daily mail

00:08:08.680 right whatever you can believe what you want with uh them but that there was some kind of ca i c i a

00:08:15.040 sorry, whistleblower, that said that there's like all these different aliens that live among us. And

00:08:21.200 you know, one of them is like the Nordics and all the stuff. So I started going down that rabbit 0.88

00:08:24.660 hole, because you know, I'm like, I think that one of two things either has to be true, either

00:08:29.180 there is aliens among us, because it's kind of arrogant to think that we're the only living

00:08:33.680 things in this entire universe. But then I started getting more on the theory that the whole thing is

00:08:38.520 just a simulation. Like, it's just like a game of Sims. Because when you think about some of the

00:08:43.420 things that you know, happen in your life, if you're somebody that's had a lot of bad things

00:08:46.500 happen, or even good things, you're like, you know, I could just see being that player of that

00:08:52.260 thing. And just saying, let's see how she can handle this. Let's see what happens when I you

00:08:56.760 know, give him, you know, terminal illness or something. I don't know. This was just I'm just

00:09:01.380 thinking that. And so I started, you know, watching YouTube videos, you know, reading some papers and

00:09:07.600 stuff like that i know that stupid fucking idiot uh astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson or whatever 0.99

00:09:15.080 uh says that elon musk even says it right he even says that he believes it's like a one in a 1.00

00:09:21.240 million chance that we're living in base reality and yeah he's uh an idiot too sometimes but i 0.98

00:09:27.820 would believe that guy he's pretty fucking smart if you ask me anyways and his starlink works well 0.99

00:09:32.440 apparently. So, but in order to, so I grabbed a bunch of stuff. I grabbed some videos kind of

00:09:38.060 going through it and I'm going to, you know, talk as we go along, but I just wanted to kind of talk

00:09:43.740 about what the whole thing is. It's actually called the simulation theory or the simulation

00:09:48.400 hypothesis argument. And it basically proposes that what we experience in our life, we feel

00:09:57.360 that is reality, right? I guess, unless you're a schizophrenic or something, but you feel like

00:10:01.840 you're living in your base reality, right? That's, you know, why wouldn't you think that way?

00:10:07.600 And that our physical bodies, consciousness, the universe is actually a highly advanced

00:10:13.720 computer simulation, instead of just being, you know, reality, right? So it's kind of like,

00:10:21.880 the theory goes that it's kind of like a hyper realistic video game or virtual reality run.

00:10:27.800 And, you know, there's been a lot of movies, right? Like, well, if you're old, like me,

00:10:31.120 you'll probably remember although they probably remade it um the running man was one um and again

00:10:35.820 based on a book philip k dick uh wrote a lot of different books uh the man in the high castle

00:10:41.700 which i uh never ended up reviewing with everybody which i really should again sorry i kind of dropped

00:10:47.320 that off drop the ball on that one um but yeah they he wrote that and so and he wrote a lot about

00:10:53.280 like simulations and um alternate realities and like you know the multi uh dimension theory or

00:11:00.500 whatever they call it so the running man was a good example of you know kind of like a realistic

00:11:06.740 video game but like real life kind of thing so there's been a lot of stuff about like there's

00:11:11.640 been a lot of things in the past even before our current technological advances and stuff like that

00:11:17.740 that you know talked about this kind of stuff so in my mind I'm thinking like I even go back to

00:11:23.020 like you know the pyramids for example like we all know that in Egypt I guess way back a thousand 0.92

00:11:29.220 2000 years ago there were more Aryans there but like based on what the people in Egypt can do now 0.92

00:11:35.440 like you know in Africa in general how the fuck did they build those pyramids so my whole thing 0.99

00:11:40.840 is is either there was an alien civilization and you know they did that kind of shit or maybe it's 0.99

00:11:45.540 just a fucking whole simulation and simulation the way I say simulation simulation and somebody's 0.99

00:11:52.280 just you know playing us as characters and um we're kind of like ai we just kind of adapt our 0.99

00:11:59.060 our lives as we go along based on the actions we take you know kind of like choose your own

00:12:03.800 adventure book one stone one stone at a time yeah so the guy barely that made it go uh mainstream

00:12:12.340 his name he was a philosopher his name was nick bostroms and we're gonna that's what we're gonna

00:12:17.440 watch first. He basically wrote a paper called Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? And this

00:12:23.480 has been popularized by Elon Musk, who is the one who, you know, references that when he says he

00:12:28.080 thinks we're one in a million, or there's a one in a million chance that we're living in base

00:12:32.940 reality, or sorry, billion to one, he said, chance that we're living in base reality, or pretty high

00:12:37.860 probability that we are actually simulated. And of course, the pop culture reference that you saw

00:12:42.760 my intro that I put together for this one. Are you saying gingers, Chad, are the aliens? The

00:12:52.540 gingers? I don't know, man. I mean, I do know that they have like some kind of superpower,

00:12:57.400 the gingers, but maybe it's possible. They said they said with the aliens that there's the 1.00

00:13:03.600 Nordics, right? And they described them as basically like Nordic people, right? Except

00:13:07.600 taller, like seven feet tall with like really white blonde hair and like blue eyes, right? So

00:13:12.440 you could argue that's nordic people in general but i guess you know being seven feet tall is not

00:13:18.240 as common i don't know so maybe these people are who knows right and again maybe it's all just 0.87

00:13:23.480 bullshit because sometimes i have to think it's a simulation because i just can't believe that like 0.99

00:13:29.360 our politicians and all that kind of stuff are just so stupid and they're doing these obvious 1.00

00:13:33.760 things to like destroy everything and it makes you think like oh is it coming up time to game over 1.00

00:13:38.880 like it's a simulation almost over now and they're just going to ruin everything and we're going to

00:13:42.900 kind of have to be put into a new similar simulation rather and this also this is kind of an aside 1.00

00:13:48.900 yeah listen you never know right I've seen some Syrian Jews that are red or sorry Syrians that 1.00

00:13:58.660 have red hair so I don't know man like it's a mystery I always thought they only came from 0.99

00:14:03.180 Ireland and Scotland but clearly that's not the case but I've talked about the fact that

00:14:08.840 like I think when people go missing like these missing 411 cases um that you know there's like

00:14:15.760 some sort of like uh wrinkle in time which is also another book if you're old you might have

00:14:20.580 read when you were a kid uh wrinkle in time or like some kind of direct energy gravity kind of

00:14:25.300 shit going on that people just disappear and maybe they're they get it's either maybe it's a glitch

00:14:30.240 in the video game and then they're like shot into a different reality or maybe they've kind of 0.98

00:14:34.900 stepped into another timeline. I don't know. But like I said, there, I definitely think there's

00:14:39.220 something fishy about that. So this is also why I wanted to kind of go down this rabbit hole with

00:14:44.220 everybody. And I'm sick of, you know, we'll get back to the Jeets and the disaster that is Canada 0.99

00:14:48.640 on Wednesday. You know, I thought we would do something fun today, at least somewhat fun. I 0.98

00:14:53.300 mean, fuck. It's really hard not to talk about the Jeets because they've basically invaded 1.00

00:14:58.400 everywhere. So okay, we know the matrix talked about this, right? The blue pill, the red pill, 1.00

00:15:03.180 and you know make it intuitive and all that kind of stuff now they go on to say and they want

00:15:07.640 everybody to know that this is still not proven it's like a conspiracy theory it's not a scientific

00:15:12.580 proven theory but it's more of a philosophical or a probabilistic argument so like the likelihood

00:15:18.340 is it's possible yes but there's no definitive proof now they do use supporting ideas from

00:15:23.780 physics and information theory technology trends and then people give anecdotal personal experience

00:15:30.000 You know, and this is kind of what they put together to to sell their case, the fact that we're living in a simulation.

00:15:35.520 So we're going to talk about the guy who first came up with this idea.

00:15:39.020 His name was. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. No, she wasn't. You're right. Cleopatra wasn't.

00:15:43.320 I think I guess there was some people. Was it from the Middle East or they were from further north, like Aryans in Egypt at first?

00:15:51.200 I don't know that whole history around there. So I wouldn't be the good person to tell you.

00:15:56.180 um so this bostrom guy it's called the trilemma the argument and it's basically the philosophical

00:16:02.800 core so he goes on to say there's it's a trilemma which means there's three different things a

00:16:07.860 dilemma except it's not two it's three a trilemma and that one of these three propositions must be

00:16:15.160 true and like i said we're going to watch uh where is did i get that i'm pretty sure i grabbed his

00:16:22.120 video the guy uh oh yeah here it is yeah it's the simulation theory theory um he says basically

00:16:30.580 that either number one almost all human level civilizations go extinct before reaching a

00:16:37.880 post-human stage so that would be considered i guess technological maturity uh with vast computing

00:16:44.180 power so they were basically saying that you'd need planet-sized computers right um or you know

00:16:49.820 you would go extinct. The second thing is post-human civilizations are extremely unlikely

00:16:54.300 to run large numbers of ancestor simulations, which is a detailed simulation of their evolutionary

00:17:00.280 history or variation with conscious simulated beings. I'm reading the definition here.

00:17:06.740 And then the third thing is that we are almost, if neither one of those two things are true,

00:17:10.740 then three would be, we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. So we're going

00:17:15.740 listen to what his simulation argument is like i said i have it here uh it's a short video

00:17:21.900 because he can probably explain it better than me and where are we so it's called the simulation

00:17:28.340 hypothesis explained by nick bostrom who is the guy that came up with this whole um

00:17:33.100 we're living in a simulation i like the freedom i feel outside the limitations of the real world

00:17:41.060 But computers are also mirrors, reflecting back who and what we are and the choices we make, the worlds we build.

00:17:51.220 Imagine a world where the line between reality and digital world blurs, where the images and videos you see are so lifelike.

00:17:59.120 You can't tell if they're real or generated by artificial intelligence.

00:18:03.260 This is not a distant future. It's happening right now.

00:18:07.180 this person looks real doesn't she but she's completely computer generated speaking of

00:18:13.900 computer generated did you see my little my little chibi icon there my little i mean i wish i looked

00:18:18.580 that cute i don't really look that cute but it's got the hair the glasses and pretty much the

00:18:22.320 clothing right but uh yeah that's ai generated too that's a computer a computer postie

00:18:27.240 in today's rapidly evolving technological landscape innovations that would have seemed

00:18:34.060 like science fiction, just a decade ago, are becoming a reality.

00:18:38.360 Over 20 years ago, I first played the character of Thomas Anderson in the Matrix trilogy.

00:18:43.240 This blurring of the digital and real worlds extends far beyond static images and videos.

00:18:52.100 Picture yourself immersed in a hyper-realistic virtual reality game, or even an entire simulated

00:18:57.640 world so detailed that it becomes nearly indistinguishable from our own. 0.99

00:19:04.060 to say is wild as fuck um i have oh yeah thanks joe that was really nice yeah my hands are fucked up 0.98

00:19:13.020 i guess um i totally forgot my uh fucking train of thought but um oh anyways it'll come back to 0.98

00:19:21.340 me as we approach a future where technology and ai transform oh that's what i say the ai stuff 0.86

00:19:27.320 it's it's insane like i don't know if you guys you probably follow truth nuke uh he's on rumble

00:19:32.400 two and he puts his videos out on on x that's like the stuff that ai can do i guess if you have the 0.69

00:19:38.760 right prompts fucking wild man and i know there's something i don't know if yes this is it ready oh 0.69

00:19:43.960 this is a movie ready player one but there's some kind of game i think that keanu reeves and that 0.97

00:19:47.940 was in it maybe it's the one of the new matrix games and i was looking at some of the footage 0.91

00:19:51.480 and that is like insane like it looks like you're watching the fucking movie now again i have to 0.78

00:19:56.360 wear glasses so maybe i don't have eagle eyes or anything but it's it's pretty impressive 0.98

00:20:00.560 From our world, a profound question arises. What if our reality itself is a simulation?

00:20:08.020 The simulation hypothesis proposes that the reality we know might be an artificial simulation,

00:20:14.900 similar to a highly advanced video game or computer program. Imagine if our universe was

00:20:20.620 created by a superior civilization running on a powerful computer. While this idea has gained

00:20:26.980 prominence in recent years it has roots in ancient philosophical questions about the nature of

00:20:32.660 reality plato's allegory we're gonna yeah we're gonna talk about the allegory i've talked about

00:20:39.460 this a hundred times so i apologize if you've heard me talk about this before but yeah it's

00:20:43.460 the plato's cave allegory which is how this belief that we're living in a simulation kind of started

00:20:48.740 the cave is a powerful metaphor that illuminates the concept of the simulation hypothesis

00:20:54.880 Imagine a group of prisoners chained inside a dark cave from birth,

00:20:59.740 only able to see shadows cast on the wall in front of them.

00:21:03.700 They believe these shadows to be the entirety of reality,

00:21:06.720 in a sense they were living in a simulation of reality.

00:21:11.080 This allegory serves as an ancient precursor to modern discussions about reality and perception.

00:21:17.960 For a modern example, think about putting on a virtual reality headset.

00:21:21.980 A high-quality VR simulation can feel extremely real, tricking your brain into thinking you're somewhere else.

00:21:30.420 This shows how what we perceive as reality is based on the information we receive through our senses.

00:21:37.040 I'd argue that alcohol can make you feel like you're somewhere else, too, if you have too much of it, and drugs probably, too.

00:21:42.820 But I get where they're going with this.

00:21:46.080 Philosopher Nick Bostrom has a compelling argument for why we might be living in a simulation.

00:21:51.760 He suggests that if a civilization becomes advanced enough to create highly realistic

00:21:56.200 simulations of reality, they would likely create many of them. Statistically, any individual

00:22:02.220 is then more likely to be living in one of the many simulations rather than the one original

00:22:07.160 reality. To understand this, imagine you have a bag filled with 1,000 red balls and only one blue

00:22:13.520 ball. If you randomly pick a ball, it's much more likely to be red than blue. Similarly,

00:22:19.480 if there are many simulated realities but only one real reality chances are we're in one of the

00:22:26.400 simulations. A lot of people have proposed that as a possibility the whole premise of matrix or

00:22:33.020 anything like that is that just as we can build simple virtual realities today with simple

00:22:38.200 simulated creatures living inside them maybe in the future with vastly more powerful computers

00:22:43.100 you could build more complex virtual realities with more complex simulated creatures inside them

00:22:48.300 maybe these creatures could be complex enough that they would actually have brains like ours

00:22:53.800 simulated down to the level of individual neurons and that's the thing i've always thought of and

00:22:59.200 i you know to interrupt this again but is that it's really crazy to think that we are the only

00:23:05.020 like in this vast universe if the universe is even real that we're the only kind of living beings

00:23:11.360 like us that the fact and it even goes as far as like you know bigfoot and stuff like that right

00:23:16.200 like how do we know that like maybe you know people who did see bigfoot did see a bigfoot

00:23:20.680 but they're like just these like programmed characters that only show up once in a while

00:23:24.460 you know just to kind of i don't know distract us or maybe they're glitches like there's all

00:23:29.180 kinds of crazy shit you can think about when you go down this rabbit hole signups is such that

00:23:33.340 the inhabitants of these simulations would be conscious but what the simulation argument adds 0.97

00:23:39.040 to that is that instead of just stopping at the question of how could you ever prove with certainty

00:23:44.260 that we're not in a simulation ourselves.

00:23:46.800 The simulation argument tries to establish a constraint

00:23:49.680 about what we can believe,

00:23:51.220 and it tries to show that one of three possibilities is true,

00:23:54.700 although it doesn't tell us which one of them it is.

00:23:56.940 Now, in a sense, this sounds more radical,

00:23:59.280 even perhaps, than some of the multiverse theories.

00:24:02.100 In another sense, it's less,

00:24:03.760 because it doesn't presuppose any unknown physics.

00:24:06.600 So we're just assuming that it would be possible

00:24:08.760 to build computers that are much more powerful in the future.

00:24:11.580 So what the simulation argument tries to show is that one of three possibilities is true.

00:24:16.740 The first one is that almost all civilizations at our stage of technological development go extinct before they become technologically mature.

00:24:25.560 Technologically mature meaning having developed all those technologies we can currently show are physically possible given only uncontroversially obtainable physics.

00:24:33.760 Big computers, the size of planets and stuff, we can calculate what performance they would have.

00:24:38.600 we can't build them now but so first possibility is people at our stage they just fail to get

00:24:43.620 through to that level of technological maturity maybe they destroy themselves on the way second

00:24:48.400 possibility is that almost all civilizations that do reach technological maturity lose interest in

00:24:54.620 creating these kinds of ancestor simulations as i call them these would be detailed computer

00:24:59.860 simulations of people like their historical predecessors so they have these powerful

00:25:05.560 computers, they have the ability to program them, but they have better things to do with

00:25:09.400 their computers and their time.

00:25:11.060 And the third possibility is that we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.

00:25:15.100 And the argument in its full version, it requires some probability theory, but the gist of it

00:25:19.720 can be grasped quite simply and intuitively.

00:25:22.460 So if you imagine that the first two possibilities do not obtain, that means some non-negligible

00:25:28.780 fraction of civilizations at our stage do reach technological maturity, and some non-negligible

00:25:34.680 fraction of those are interested in creating these ancestor simulations, they devote some

00:25:39.560 non-trivial fraction of the resources to this end, you can then show that there would be

00:25:44.500 many, many more ancestor simulations than there would be original courses of history.

00:25:50.020 Because if you calculate the computing power that a technologically mature civilization

00:25:55.260 would have, and the computing power that would be required to simulate all human brains,

00:26:00.300 it turns out that the latter quantity is a tiny, tiny fraction of the former.

00:26:04.080 But in other words, by devoting a tiny fraction of their computational resources to this end, they could create astronomical numbers.

00:26:12.200 If we are in a simulation, how would we know?

00:26:16.080 Critics argue that the absence of concrete, verifiable evidence renders the hypothesis unfalsifiable and outside the scope of scientific inquiry.

00:26:25.260 In this part, when I listened to this part, it made me think of the movie, again, I always relate things to movies or books, The Truman Show.

00:26:33.100 and and i know the truman show was more like a a reality show kind of thing he was like contained 0.54

00:26:38.160 in some kind of fucking dome that made him look like it but i think about it in those terms that 0.76

00:26:43.500 once he started to realize that it was you know he was all it was like he was in a show it was 0.98

00:26:48.340 a fake reality or whatever things started like they had to start making changes and allowances

00:26:53.800 for and i'm wondering if that's what's happening now the fact that more and more people are

00:26:57.080 questioning are we in reality like do we live in a reality are we in a simulation that that's why

00:27:03.200 they're kind of moving toward the simulation is going to end soon they're gonna have to restart

00:27:06.100 because we're getting too smart we're getting too wise to the simulation so they're gonna you know

00:27:10.340 whatever it is we're all of a sudden whether it's going to be a massive world war or famine or

00:27:15.200 whatever they're going to do they're going to kind of like you know end the simulation and start

00:27:18.680 again advocates of the simulation hypothesis argue that the absence of evidence may be an

00:27:24.980 inherent feature of the simulation itself designed to maintain the illusion of a base reality some

00:27:32.520 speculate that anomalies or inconsistencies in our universe akin to bugs or errors in computer

00:27:38.940 programs might reveal its simulated nature just like bugs or errors in a video game or computer

00:27:45.040 program can cause unexpected things to happen that don't fit with the normal rules maybe yeah

00:27:50.480 this is what i was talking about i think this is footage from the matrix video game we'd see

00:27:54.400 similar anomalies in our simulated reality.

00:27:59.000 One example that's been proposed is the speed of light.

00:28:02.840 In our universe nothing can travel faster than light.

00:28:06.200 This could be seen as a kind of speed limit that was set on the simulation, similar to

00:28:10.800 how a video game might limit how fast characters can move due to the processing power of the

00:28:15.720 gaming console or computer.

00:28:18.160 The immense volume of information processed by the universe every second from the interactions

00:28:22.820 of quantum particles to the vast movements of galaxies is profoundly vast.

00:28:29.020 This remarkable observation leads to a thought-provoking suggestion.

00:28:33.360 Could the universe itself be akin to a grand cosmic computer simulation?

00:28:37.940 Skeptics of the simulation hypothesis might argue that this immense complexity and physicality

00:28:43.380 of the universe present insurmountable challenges for any conceivable simulation, questioning

00:28:50.020 whether even the most advanced civilizations could muster the computational resources to

00:28:55.500 create a simulation. Yet, if we were to discover that we are indeed living in a simulation,

00:29:01.580 it would fundamentally reshape our understanding of the nature of reality, consciousness, and

00:29:07.020 free will.

00:29:08.020 I don't know why they would think that it would be too hard for a civilization to create

00:29:12.940 this kind of a simulation. Because, I mean, look at what they're doing now. I mean, they're

00:29:17.980 doing ai now they're like okay it's a base level but these games that you it's like the sims game

00:29:23.620 or whatever like that's all just on a micro scale so like if you computing just grows and grows

00:29:29.720 right so if they were far more technologically advanced of course they could create something

00:29:33.960 like this so i don't know why they question it again i think it's that arrogance that people

00:29:38.820 think that human beings are the only living or i guess people of this intelligence in the entire

00:29:45.480 universe which is crazy this discovery would suggest that consciousness can arise from

00:29:50.760 sufficiently complex information processing regardless of whether the substrate is biological

00:29:56.520 like our brains or digital like a computer simulation i would like to introduce you to my

00:30:03.400 present and the rest of the world's future i call it stem some people think that some of these things

00:30:12.200 are sort of science fiction-y, far out there, crazy.

00:30:17.280 But I like to say, okay, let's look at the modern human condition.

00:30:22.580 If we think about it, we are actually recently arrived guests on this planet.

00:30:26.660 Think about if the world, like, was created, Earth was created one year ago.

00:30:30.380 The human species then would be 10 minutes old.

00:30:32.840 The industrial era started two seconds ago.

00:30:35.400 There have already been 250,000 generations since our last common ancestor,

00:30:40.160 and we know that complicated mechanisms take a long time to evolve.

00:30:44.540 So a bunch of relatively minor changes

00:30:46.880 take us from broken-off tree branches

00:30:48.860 to intercontinental ballistic missiles.

00:30:52.240 So this then seems pretty obvious,

00:30:53.600 that everything we've achieved, pretty much,

00:30:55.640 and everything we care about depends crucially

00:30:57.900 on some relatively minor changes that made the human mind.

00:31:01.680 And the corollary, of course, is that any further changes

00:31:04.640 that could significantly change the substrate of thinking

00:31:07.380 could have potentially enormous consequences.

00:31:10.160 Some of my colleagues think we are on the verge of something that could cause a profound change in that substrate, and that is machine superintelligence.

00:31:20.360 That would be AI, guys.

00:31:22.660 So that's the end of that one.

00:31:25.040 What do you guys think about that?

00:31:25.980 I don't know.

00:31:26.460 I wanted to show it to you, give you kind of the basics of what this whole simulation theory thing is.

00:31:35.460 The other thing that they talk about, the fact that it could be real, I guess another reasoning.

00:31:40.160 towards the fact that it could be real is the technological feasibility and trends.

00:31:45.140 So, like I said earlier, computing power, for example, it grows exponentially, right?

00:31:49.820 So that's why they keep having to open these data centers and stuff like that,

00:31:52.980 because, you know, the more AI learns, the more it uses, the more computing power it's going to need.

00:31:58.720 It's called Moore's Law.

00:32:01.520 You know, VR, AI, and simulations are already, like, advancing so rapidly that they're pretty much real.

00:32:07.600 like i said that was a video game that uh that little clip there of um the matrix that was a

00:32:12.980 fucking from a video game so it's so real and complex these virtual worlds that like even 0.83

00:32:18.220 i played i haven't played in a while but cyberpunk um even that was you know pretty like 0.98

00:32:24.440 for a video game it was pretty realistic and and how i would imagine uh uh you know

00:32:30.420 global homo dystopian future looks like and then elon musk as well he also said like if 0.88

00:32:38.560 if any rate of improvement continues games will become literally indistinguishable from reality

00:32:44.540 and ancestor simulations would be trivial for advanced civilizations he had said that on nbc

00:32:50.500 news he also said that here's the video here i'll share this one where he said that he believes that

00:32:58.600 we are living in a simulation we'll watch a few minutes of that come on elon 40 years ago we had

00:33:05.960 pong like two rectangles and a dot now 40 years later we have photorealistic 3d simulations with

00:33:12.640 millions of people playing simultaneously and it's getting better every year and soon we'll have

00:33:16.900 you know virtual reality now keep in mind this was a few years ago that he uh was on the show

00:33:23.320 or whatever he talked about this and like it's it's come even way further than this like the

00:33:28.800 technological advancements i've augmented reality um if you assume any rate of improvement at all

00:33:37.640 then the games will become indistinguishable from reality in the third century there was a

00:33:44.200 so that's yeah that was basically his clip we don't have to watch the whole video but that was

00:33:48.020 uh what he had said back in whatever 20 22 maybe or 2020 i don't know something like that

00:33:56.100 um and then the other i guess sub title under subheading under here uh under technological

00:34:02.740 feasibility is that post-human civilizations could convert astronomical resources like planets

00:34:08.680 and stars into computers running trillions of or more conscious simulations and i think about this

00:34:14.140 as well because like even when you look at how they're harnessing the power of um well negative

00:34:20.780 gravity like that was one example um how they became you know to use like nuclear power and

00:34:27.040 fission and all this kind of stuff right like to me this is stuff that they're harnessing the

00:34:32.480 resources of the natural environment around us to like double triple quadruple the power of

00:34:38.160 something so I mean it's possible I mean I don't see why not and the universe too I guess well the

00:34:45.340 way we understand it is that like we're looking at stuff that from millions of years ago right

00:34:50.760 stars and stuff like that so who's to say there isn't stuff that people that are further ahead

00:34:55.360 of us somewhere in the universe you know I don't know it's just I just find that it it is most

00:35:00.400 likely has to be possible we can't be the only higher intelligence beings in this universe if

00:35:05.200 the universe exists and it's not a simulation of the universe um but like they said in the end at

00:35:10.760 the end of that one video the simulated beings like us if we were in a sim we wouldn't even know

00:35:15.280 that we're being simulated right until people start thinking right and this is you know why

00:35:19.780 like in the truman show they kind of had to make all these you know abort mission kind of thing

00:35:24.200 right because he started realizing that it wasn't even fucking real so that this idea make or sorry

00:35:30.180 this makes the idea feel increasingly plausible as tech progresses, because we're already building 0.58

00:35:36.340 proto simulations. Now, some of the factual things, because I asked, like, I looked at both,

00:35:43.520 I looked at the different factual arguments and the antidotal arguments, right? So some of the

00:35:50.240 scientific ones, I guess, that you could be, can be scientifically measured, is the discrete

00:35:56.320 pixelated reality at fundamental scales so what it says here is that the universe has minimal

00:36:01.680 minimum units it's called the plank length um it's like 10 to the power of 35 meters

00:36:08.160 this resembles a lattice or grid in computer simulations like lattice qcd used by physicists

00:36:13.840 to stimulate or to simulate rather particle physics on a supercomputer so basically it's

00:36:20.000 like a pixel right this plank length length it's like a pixel so what they're saying is

00:36:24.400 that if you zoom in on something enough,

00:36:27.380 I think they used the example of like an atom

00:36:29.700 or a neuron or something like that.

00:36:32.040 And they had basically zoomed in as much as possible.

00:36:36.520 And at the end, as much as they were able to zoom in,

00:36:39.460 it was like a pixel, right?

00:36:41.640 And the argument is, is if this was nature or man-made,

00:36:44.320 it wouldn't stop.

00:36:46.060 Like you would be able to keep dividing it

00:36:48.500 and keep zooming in on it because it's a natural thing.

00:36:51.180 I think that was the argument they had,

00:36:52.400 which i don't know i guess if i was a scientist i might understand that better

00:36:56.020 um then bean devotee and savage in 2012 and 2014 said if space time is simulated on a cubic

00:37:03.960 lattice ultra high energy cosmic rays should show specific patterns or cutoffs due to the grid

00:37:09.380 acting like a diffraction grating this is kind of with the double slit experiment what we're going

00:37:14.180 to look at in a minute they derived constraints uh lattice spacing limits from observed cosmic

00:37:18.960 ray spectra it's not a smoking gun yet but it's a testable idea and then of course vobson's second

00:37:24.920 law of infodynamics this was a physicist named melvin vobson he proposed that information

00:37:30.740 entropy in systems like digital data and rna viruses tend to decrease or stay minimized over

00:37:38.140 time but the opposite of thermodynamic entropy which is the opposite story of thermodynamic

00:37:43.680 entropy which actually increases this suggests built-in data compression and optimization

00:37:48.660 exactly what a resource-limited simulation would need.

00:37:52.940 Symmetries in physics and possible non-random mutation patterns

00:37:55.820 and evolution could fix this.

00:37:58.620 But the person who talked about this, which, what did we talk about?

00:38:03.300 We talked about his name before.

00:38:05.740 I have such a bad memory.

00:38:06.920 Bostrom, sorry, Bostrom.

00:38:08.820 He explicitly links it to supporting the simulated universe hypothesis, right?

00:38:13.260 And like I said, we talked about the, I talked about the double slit experiment,

00:38:16.820 but I thought there's a short another short video I went through that basically breaks down the

00:38:22.560 simulation all there's 25 of them simulation theories that will make you question everything

00:38:27.080 and he goes over them pretty quickly so I thought it would be a good way to share it just because

00:38:30.860 I'm you know probably not the best person to explain this either oh yeah let's share this tab

00:38:36.920 instead and like I said I'm blubbering mess today obviously so let's see what they say and a lot of

00:38:44.820 these things are going to talk about like the mandela effect they're going to talk like i said

00:38:47.960 the double split experiment which we'll look at um and all these things that you like deja vu

00:38:53.080 is another thing and these are all they could be explained if we are living in a simulation right

00:38:57.980 there's really no natural explanation for a lot of it like if you don't believe in you know psychic

00:39:04.180 ability and stuff like that but if we were just you know npcs in a simulation then we might all

00:39:10.700 we might know what's going to happen next right 25 or it could be Elon Musk thinks there's a one

00:39:17.500 in billions chance we're in base reality so we talked about that already Elon Musk dropped a

00:39:23.740 bombshell at a tech conference when asked about simulation theory he said the odds we're not

00:39:29.420 living in a simulation are probably one in billions his logic look at video games we went

00:39:36.540 from pong to photorealistic virtual reality in about 50 years give it another 10 000 and simulated

00:39:44.220 worlds will be completely indistinguishable from the real thing and here's the kicker if creating

00:39:50.380 perfect simulations is possible then statistically it's probably already happened now musk isn't a

00:39:57.900 physicist or a philosopher he's a tech CEO riffing on an idea but when the richest man on the planet

00:40:04.060 casually suggests we might all be npcs in someone else's game people tend to pay attention 24.

00:40:11.820 the math behind it is genuinely convincing now this is very interesting this had me okay because

00:40:16.940 again i'm a very pattern oriented person and when you hear this about the um the law of like how it

00:40:24.460 always is the golden rule or something the golden number it's it's wild philosopher nick bostrom

00:40:30.060 formulized the simulation argument in 2003, and his logic is deceptively simple. If it's possible

00:40:37.060 to create realistic simulations of conscious beings, and civilization doesn't destroy themselves

00:40:42.180 first, then simulated beings will vastly outnumber real ones. Run the numbers. Even if only one in

00:40:49.900 a million civilizations creates simulations, and each simulation contains millions of beings,

00:40:55.660 the simulated population quickly dwarfs the original by trillions to one.

00:41:00.920 If you were randomly assigned to be any conscious being in such a universe,

00:41:04.780 you'd almost certainly be simulated.

00:41:07.680 23. Physicists have found glitches in reality.

00:41:12.000 We're going to go over this too. We're going to listen to this part,

00:41:14.120 and then I'm going to flip to a video that shows some actual real examples of glitches in the reality that were caught on camera. 0.96

00:41:19.820 It's fucking cool. 0.91

00:41:20.460 The universe appears to operate on mathematical principles that look suspiciously like computer 0.99

00:41:26.460 code.

00:41:27.460 Physicist James Gates discovered what appeared to be error-correcting codes, the same type

00:41:31.920 used in computer systems, embedded in the equations of string theory.

00:41:36.940 These codes, called Ndinkras, shouldn't be there if the universe is purely natural.

00:41:42.760 Gates himself has said that finding them, quote, very closely related to what's inside

00:41:47.160 browser on your computer was deeply disturbing okay so let's go look at some these are paradoxes

00:41:56.120 i got yeah here it is dark side some glitches in the matrix there's some uh different things

00:42:03.720 that different clips that people they put a compilation together of some glitches in the

00:42:08.120 the matrix so let's see was an aquarium scene what's going on a woman recorded this bizarre

00:42:17.680 phenomena while she was visiting the town's aquarium no one nor two but all the fish in the

00:42:23.340 tank were frozen that would freaking freak me out it's like they're suspended in jail like that's

00:42:28.060 what i would think i would be like okay is this a fake setup like is this a fake uh exhibit you

00:42:32.860 know what i mean like that they had to do because that like i don't even know what i would do i'd

00:42:36.280 probably think i was fucking stoned not even a single movement was what triggered everyone for

00:42:41.220 those of you who might say they were in a deep sleep watch how none of them moved when the girl 0.98

00:42:45.920 tapped the glass no that's why are they standing still it's real what is going on mysterious that's 0.57

00:42:52.140 fucking crazy there's no way that that's like like all those fish unless they were even if they were 0.91

00:42:57.160 all like electrocuted or something wouldn't they be like upside down or something like i don't know 0.99

00:43:01.540 man that's i believe that shit i bet you that was a glitch glowing light 0.97

00:43:05.320 in a deserted area near the mountains a glowing light was seen shining from the ground it wasn't 0.98

00:43:15.260 like any regular beam or reflection it was bright and steady almost like a small portal opening the

00:43:21.820 person recording stayed silent unsure what they were seeing as the light pulsed softly

00:43:27.500 see that one i don't know like that could be i part of me is like could that be like a mirror

00:43:36.580 glitch like the sun reflecting off of a a mirrored object or something like that but

00:43:41.300 i'm also thinking that could also be one of those like i said black holes like wrinkles in time or

00:43:48.320 something like that like opening up a fabric and take you to another dimension sorry i'm still sick

00:43:55.140 at an airport security checkpoint everything seemed normal until one man suddenly vanished

00:44:07.100 right in front of the scanners the people nearby froze staring at the spot where he had been

00:44:12.580 standing just seconds earlier the security footage showed no sign of him walking away he's that's 0.92

00:44:18.180 okay what do you think about that do you guys think that's like a fucking edit like a video 0.91

00:44:22.780 edit this is what i'm saying this is where i'm getting on the whole thing about people going 0.91

00:44:26.780 missing i'm legit think this happens simply disappeared frozen chickens glitch

00:44:42.060 a woman filmed something truly strange inside her chicken coop her chickens were moving around

00:44:47.180 normally when all of a sudden they froze mid-step none of them moved or even blinked like time had

00:44:53.520 stopped that's when the the matrix is running on reverse or what do you call it reserve memory

00:45:00.040 it's taking a bit to buffer for a moment she kept recording in disbelief trying to figure out what

00:45:06.420 just happened the video spread fast leaving people questioning if it was instinct or a real glitch in

00:45:12.980 reality why are they all not moving train doppelganger glitch a girl playfully kicked

00:45:21.120 her friend's shoe off the train and started recording laughing as the doors began to close

00:45:25.700 but the fun quickly turned eerie on the left side of the shot she saw herself completely still

00:45:32.100 wearing the same outfit standing outside the train the strange reflection left her speechless

00:45:37.500 unsure how she could be in two places at once glass i honestly i don't know if any of this

00:45:44.600 stuff happened to me i would probably probably sign myself into the nuthouse because or i would

00:45:50.740 like i said we assume i would have been slipped some kind of hallucinogenic because that is

00:45:54.900 fucking wild and this also could probably explain you know people who see ghosts and stuff like that 0.81

00:46:01.300 and or aliens for example and like how nobody else believes them but like they will literally 0.98

00:46:06.900 fucking go to their grave believing that it's just it's little glitches in the matrix glitch 0.71

00:46:12.060 a man was walking past a shop when a white drawing on its glass door caught her attention 1.00

00:46:19.060 it looked like paint brushed neatly across the surface but as he got closer the illusion broke

00:46:25.560 there was no glass door at all and just when he stepped inside it looked like he entered another

00:46:32.240 dimension hovering i don't know if you guys ever heard of the there was a story um and it's been

00:46:38.780 going around about this guy who maybe it was from reddit i don't know but he was shopping with his

00:46:45.920 wife and he walked into um a bookstore or something like that and like as he walked in it was like

00:46:52.640 everything had changed it was like the bookstore what it would have looked like in the 1800s or

00:46:56.480 something and then he came back out and like the street was like again the city or the town looked 0.99

00:47:00.440 like it would have back in like the 19th century or something like that it's fucking crazy shit 0.99

00:47:06.760 falcon glitch this unbelievable clip shows a falcon mid-flight but it's not moving forward 0.99

00:47:13.760 at all the bird hovers perfectly still in the air gently flapping its wings as if caught by an

00:47:19.780 invisible force everything in the background was moving proving the video isn't paused nor edited

00:47:26.040 so but i wonder if it was like a little wind thing because it looks like that's like is that

00:47:29.400 a highway near there a racetrack or something i wonder if it was like one of those little

00:47:32.660 some things i think could be explained what was it if you made it this far you better comment down

00:47:38.280 and let me know your opinion on this shadowed professor glitch a student recorded his professor's

00:47:45.360 weird shadow through the glass panels the figure looked faint almost like a shadow instead of a

00:47:51.500 person when he looked without the glass in between he looked normal the moment was so strange that

00:47:57.460 it made him question what he had just seen was it simply a trick of the glass or did reality slip

00:48:03.440 walking on water all right here we go a fisherman out in the open sea captured something that

00:48:10.060 didn't seem real as he filmed the calm water a man could be seen walking straight across the

00:48:15.300 surface completely dry and balanced oh my god jesus is risen he's coming back figure moved

00:48:21.340 naturally step by step without sinking even a little the fisherman kept recording in disbelief

00:48:27.140 unsure if he was witnessing an illusion a trick of light or an actual glitch in reality unfolding

00:48:33.440 before his eyes okay but did he ask the guy did he go like i'd want to know answers man give me

00:48:38.780 answers i'd go up to the guy and say bro are you walking on water what's going on here like you 0.99

00:48:44.580 just he just filmed it and just like whatever like fuck man i want the details frozen streetwalker 0.98

00:48:50.440 walking down the street a man caught everyone's attention while holding a shopping bag at first 0.99

00:48:56.760 it looked like he was just pausing for a moment mid-step but then it became clear he wasn't moving

00:49:02.580 at all his body stayed completely still frozen in place as that's an npc that needs to be leveled

00:49:08.420 up or needs to be uh saved he needs to be revived that's the word revived if time had paused around

00:49:15.080 him people passing by stopped staring unsure if it was a prank or something stranger the longer

00:49:21.080 he stayed motionless the more unusual it felt watching the clip now to be fair if you've seen

00:49:26.780 people on fent i mean they usually have the fent fentanyl fold going on but they can be pretty

00:49:32.560 straight like pretty still you know when they're like in their full fence like you know high so

00:49:38.980 just saying it's hard not to wonder if reality itself had a brief hiccup freezing him in the

00:49:44.680 middle of the road frozen plane sighting a passenger flying on a commercial plane noticed

00:49:51.220 something unbelievable outside the window another aircraft appeared ahead but it wasn't moving at

00:49:56.600 all just hanging in the sky the passenger started recording capturing the plane frozen midair

00:50:02.120 defying all logic the footage spread quickly online leaving everyone wondering if it was an

00:50:07.840 illusion or a true glitch in reality we'll watch a couple more and then we'll go back to the other

00:50:12.700 video because there's also some mandela effect things that we gotta look at too which are crazy

00:50:16.740 headless hiking friend okay this is a little

00:50:20.300 standing just a few steps away from the group of hikers is billy bob crane guys billy bob crane

00:50:28.660 the headless horseman the headless figure the fact that no one in the group even tries to

00:50:34.100 approach the mysterious presence makes its appearance seem all the more convincing but

00:50:39.460 But what was this man? Let me know what you think in the comments.

00:50:43.440 If nobody's noticing it, maybe it's just the camera picking it up then?

00:50:46.780 Like, how could you not, unless, like I said, the guy's got his head, like, bent down, like, pretty far.

00:50:52.860 But, I mean, obviously, if nobody is, I would think, if nobody's saying anything or doing anything,

00:50:57.880 then they're either not seeing it or they know that he's just got his head bent down.

00:51:06.900 Motionless Horses Field.

00:51:09.460 My horses are frozen in time. Is this a glitch in the matrix?

00:51:13.680 A woman walked outside during a light rain and noticed something that didn't make sense.

00:51:18.660 Every horse in her field stood completely still. No head movement, no tail flicks, nothing.

00:51:24.420 The rain kept falling, the wind moved the grass, but the horses looked frozen,

00:51:29.220 like they were part of a still image. She took out her phone to record,

00:51:33.420 trying to understand what she was seeing. The video quickly spread online,

00:51:37.260 with viewers calling it one of the strangest moments caught on camera almost as if time had

00:51:42.600 paused. That's what I'm thinking Donald I'm thinking that that guy it might have just been

00:51:46.740 from the Fent bending right because he's able to get his neck right down so as I'm saying not all

00:51:51.160 of them are glitches I think they can be explained the people bent over and stuff like that in frozen

00:51:55.800 time that's yeah I think that's totally could be a Fent fold. Just for them. Railing walk illusion.

00:52:02.400 okay so whatever happened here shouldn't be considered normal 0.96

00:52:07.500 i mean how could an ordinary what the fuck was that what the fuck okay hold on person do what 0.96

00:52:18.100 this man did he walked toward the camera moving casually as if he were about to step through a 0.97

00:52:23.940 door but then something suddenly changed in him the guy stepped backward took a few steps and

00:52:29.740 well you all know what happened next so let me know if or is there a possible explanation for 0.74

00:52:35.760 this what the fuck is he stepping over like in this image it looks like yeah it's a carpet and 0.97

00:52:40.700 a flat floor but when he was closer to it that's fucking crazy airborne fish illusion 0.99

00:52:46.380 a man decided to clean his aquarium and lowered the water level expecting his fish to move down 0.94

00:52:53.120 but instead the fish stayed near the top swimming smoothly in thin air as if the water hadn't been

00:52:59.580 removed at all it moved its fins and turned around like everything was normal so is gravity really

00:53:06.080 not affecting this fish or is there something else going on again i would have put my hand in there 0.95

00:53:12.020 and seen if i could have scooped it up and see if it's in fucking water or not i just would not let 0.85

00:53:16.840 have let that go by without doing something i'd have to confirm that i'm not crazy double sun glitch 0.88

00:53:23.660 and it's very there a girl was filming a calm sunset capturing the golden sky on her phone

00:53:33.480 but when she zoomed in something unbelievable appeared right beside the sun was another

00:53:39.580 glowing circle shining just as bright the site didn't look like a reflection or lens flare

00:53:46.020 making her question if she had just recorded a real glitch in the sky okay i that again i think

00:53:52.740 there's probably an explanation for that okay so let's get back to the other things about the

00:53:58.740 simulation theory that's going to make us question our reality because there's a lot more the universe

00:54:05.400 might have debugging code built into its fundamental structure 22 the speed of light

00:54:12.040 might be a processing limit why does the speed of light exist as an absolute limit

00:54:18.520 One theory?

00:54:19.660 It's the maximum speed at which the simulation can render information.

00:54:23.740 Think about it like a video game.

00:54:25.540 If you try to move too fast, you'll outrun the system's ability to load new environments.

00:54:31.260 The speed of light could be the universe's way of preventing you from breaking the rendering engine.

00:54:35.980 See, I was thinking about this too when I saw this. 0.99

00:54:38.660 I was thinking like, holy fuck, man, that could be possible. 0.98

00:54:41.580 And that's why you get those images like the people that, you know, 0.99

00:54:44.280 or look like they're doing fent folds and stuff like that.

00:54:46.340 but it's like it's taking a while to render the image

00:54:48.600 because it's a little bit stuck.

00:54:50.100 You know, when you have to unplug it and plug it,

00:54:52.460 or unplug it and plug it back in again,

00:54:55.240 like they tell you in IT

00:54:56.200 anytime you have a problem with your computer.

00:54:58.540 This would explain why nothing can exceed this speed.

00:55:01.680 It's not a law of nature.

00:55:03.500 It's a hardware limitation.

00:55:05.600 21.

00:55:06.840 Quantum mechanics behaves like a video game loading trick.

00:55:10.520 In video games,

00:55:12.140 distant objects aren't fully rendered until you look at them.

00:55:15.020 so this is what i was talking about earlier how it's not fully rendered like the pixel thing so

00:55:19.180 this is the same kind of thing with the video game to save memory it doesn't render um the

00:55:25.420 objects in the distance it only renders what you can see right this saves processing power quantum

00:55:31.660 mechanics does something eerily similar the famous double slit experiment shows that particles exist

00:55:38.060 in multiple states simultaneously until observed okay and then we're going to look at the double

00:55:44.380 slit experiment which is like 30 seconds long or no it's a couple minutes long but this explains

00:55:50.200 what he means by the double slit experiment you have to understand this in order to know what

00:55:54.040 he's talking about. The experiment defies our understanding. It involves a laser shooting beams

00:55:59.720 of light particles called photons at a screen with two parallel slits. If we mark all the spots where

00:56:05.980 the photons hit the second wall we should expect to see two strips to correspond with the two slits

00:56:11.660 But that's not what we see.

00:56:13.900 Instead, we see an alternating pattern of light and dark bands.

00:56:18.400 This is characteristic of the behavior of waves that pass through both slits simultaneously,

00:56:23.900 interfering with each other to create the pattern on the second screen.

00:56:27.680 The bright lines are where the top of waves meet, resulting in a more intense or brighter

00:56:32.080 area on the screen.

00:56:33.860 The darker bands are where the top of one wave meets the bottom of another, so they

00:56:38.080 They cancel each other out, resulting in a less intense or darker area on the screen.

00:56:43.520 Here is a photo of a real interference pattern.

00:56:46.680 The original double-slit experiment was conducted in 1801 by British polymath Thomas Young.

00:56:52.800 Since then, it's been performed with various types of particles, including electrons, and

00:56:57.360 they were found to behave in the same way.

00:57:00.140 This phenomenon occurs even if the photons are fired one at a time, which suggests that

00:57:05.940 the photon is interfering with itself as it passes through both slits at once.

00:57:11.520 Physicists were so stumped that they decided to observe which slit the particle went through.

00:57:17.320 And that's when things get really weird.

00:57:20.100 When scientists used a measuring device to observe the slit that each photon passed through,

00:57:25.100 the interference pattern disappeared and the photons started behaving like particles.

00:57:31.120 So what they're saying here is that basically by virtue of it being observed, so you're watching it, or I guess a camera, whatever, is watching it, it behaves differently automatically.

00:57:42.680 So that is, you know, where people think, okay, well, this has to be a simulation, because how could they know that they're being watched?

00:57:50.360 Instead of the spectrum of light and dark bands, we see two bright bands, indicating that the photons chose one slit or the other.

00:57:58.400 So light can display characteristics of both particles and waves, known as wave-particle

00:58:04.160 duality.

00:58:05.480 It appears that light decides to behave as a wave when it's not being watched, and

00:58:10.000 acts like a particle when it is being measured.

00:58:13.020 The mere act of observing which slit it went through changed the behaviour of the photons.

00:58:19.080 So that's basically the double slit experiment, just so you know.

00:58:24.760 point they choose a definite state it's as if the universe doesn't bother calculating particle

00:58:30.760 positions until something needs to know this is exactly how a simulation would optimize performance

00:58:37.720 don't waste resources rendering what nobody's looking at 20. the plank length might be a pixel

00:58:44.120 so i talked about this briefly earlier the plank length how it is like the measurement is like a

00:58:48.520 single pixel it's so tiny but once it gets to that tiniest measurement it can't be like divided

00:58:55.880 anymore the smallest possible unit of length in physics is the plank length approximately 1.6

00:59:03.560 times 10 to the negative 35th meters below this scale our laws of physics break down completely

00:59:11.480 this looks suspiciously like a pixel limit just as images become meaningless below a certain

00:59:16.760 resolution reality might have a fundamental resolution below which nothing can exist

00:59:22.840 if the universe is a simulation it would need to have minimum units the plank length fits

00:59:28.520 that description perfectly 19. the universe seems to have a maximum data density

00:59:36.120 there's a calculated limit to how much information can exist in a given space

00:59:40.120 called the bekenstein bound pack too much data into a too small a region and it would collapse

00:59:45.960 into a black hole this is exactly what you'd expect if the simulation had memory limits

00:59:52.520 too much information in one place would crash that sector of the simulation

00:59:56.920 the universe literally has a maximum file size per location 18. neil degrasse tyson puts the odds

01:00:04.440 at 50 50. at a 2016 debate astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson was asked point blank are we living

01:00:12.600 in a simulation his answer 50 50. that's the safe answer okay everybody's gonna say 50 50 because

01:00:20.360 like that's probably the safest answer you could give come on man go hard like elon elon said it

01:00:25.800 was one in a billion chance that we're in actual reality okay he he took the reins on that one and 0.99

01:00:30.600 he's gonna stand on business he's not gonna give this haphard haphazard fucking 50 50

01:00:36.120 come on his reasoning if consciousness can be simulated and we're close to being able to do 0.94

01:00:41.640 ourselves then whoever created our simulation was probably also simulated i don't know if anybody

01:00:47.940 has one of those google vr things and stuff like that but like i mean my son has one and he said 0.93

01:00:53.260 that like it can make you fucking dizzy as fuck like i don't know maybe you have to get used to 0.90

01:00:58.120 it or something like that but like it i don't know it's weird he says like it doesn't really 0.98

01:01:02.420 feel like reality like you feel like you're kind of floating i guess but maybe you get used to it

01:01:07.680 maybe that they'll eventually improve it to the point where you don't think that

01:01:11.940 you're like where you don't realize that you're not in reality it's turtles all

01:01:17.100 the way down Tyson is one of the most recognized scientists on the planet when

01:01:22.560 mainstream scientists start treating it as a coin flip rather than a joke maybe

01:01:26.700 it deserves a harder look 17 the universe might have been turned on

01:01:31.920 recently how would you know if the universe was created last Thursday with

01:01:37.140 all your memories pre-installed. I have thoughts about that too and that's why I said I think a

01:01:42.860 lot of things it ties into the whole Mandela effect how people remember things differently

01:01:46.940 and not to I don't want to sound like Justin Trudeau when he said oh she must have remembered

01:01:49.980 things differently no I'm serious like I think that certain people remember things and it's

01:01:55.340 because you know maybe their memories corrupted or something their installed memory. You couldn't

01:02:01.940 Everything would appear exactly as it does now. This philosophical nightmare,

01:02:07.300 called Last Thursday-ism, becomes relevant to simulation theory.

01:02:11.860 The simulation might have started at any point with a false history programmed in.

01:02:16.820 Your childhood memories could be loading screen content.

01:02:20.820 16. Time dilation could be a processing optimization.

01:02:25.780 Einstein's relativity tells us that time moves slower near massive objects

01:02:30.660 and at high speeds in simulation terms this could be load balancing heavy gravitational

01:02:37.460 fields require more calculations slowing time in those regions gives the system more time to

01:02:42.740 process the increased complexity it's the same trick your gaming computer uses when a scene

01:02:47.700 gets too complex it slows down the frame rate what we call physics might just be resource management

01:02:56.260 15. we're already building simulations of our own

01:03:00.660 We have video games with billions of NPCs making decisions, simulated economies, and AI characters that exhibit rudimentary consciousness markers.

01:03:09.840 We're getting better at this exponentially.

01:03:13.100 Within decades, we might create simulations where the characters believe they're real.

01:03:18.600 And if we can do it, someone else probably did it before us.

01:03:22.520 That's what I'm saying.

01:03:23.540 Like a lot of books that were written, even the movie Demolition Man was based on a book.

01:03:28.020 And I don't know if it was, it might have been written by Philip Dick.

01:03:30.160 Philip K. Dick but it was called something else

01:03:32.280 but a lot of these things that have

01:03:34.440 like these futurist technologies

01:03:36.360 and stuff like that in it

01:03:37.780 like I don't know I always have like

01:03:40.100 how could people imagine something like that

01:03:41.980 unless it was something that you know

01:03:43.980 either it was something that we think was created

01:03:46.240 back then but it really was you know

01:03:48.040 in our mind it was installed that way

01:03:49.720 I don't know but like

01:03:51.580 I find it fascinating that people in like

01:03:54.240 the early

01:03:55.160 20th century to mid 20th century

01:03:58.460 was writing about these kind of futuristic things

01:04:01.040 and they're like now coming true.

01:04:03.440 The fact that we're so close

01:04:05.060 to creating simulated consciousness

01:04:06.500 suggests it's been done countless times already.

01:04:10.280 We might just be someone else's beta test.

01:04:13.620 14.

01:04:14.980 Consciousness is still totally unexplained.

01:04:17.660 I actually, about this too,

01:04:19.680 I just watched a video or whatever.

01:04:22.760 I don't know what, I guess it's a podcast

01:04:24.140 of a neuroscientist or a neurosurgeon.

01:04:28.460 And he totally agrees that consciousness is not held within the brain.

01:04:33.460 And there's various different reasons why he thinks that.

01:04:36.700 But it had to do with some experiments and stuff like that.

01:04:40.260 They don't they've done on brains and stuff like that.

01:04:42.140 But like, basically, his theory on that is that no matter how much brain damage you suffer,

01:04:48.520 you will always have consciousness and reason.

01:04:52.340 So like, it's not they believe it does not located in the brain.

01:04:55.440 So I don't know, that could go to another further thing.

01:04:57.460 Like maybe it's your soul or something.

01:04:59.440 But again, if we were living in a simulation, that could also make sense.

01:05:04.620 Despite all our science, we have no idea how physical matter creates conscious experience.

01:05:11.160 This is called the hard problem of consciousness, and it remains unsolved.

01:05:16.460 One explanation?

01:05:18.400 Consciousness doesn't emerge from matter at all.

01:05:20.900 In a simulation, consciousness could be directly programmed, explaining why it seems so disconnected from physical processes.

01:05:28.420 your experience of being aware might be a software feature not a hardware emergent property 13. would 0.99

01:05:35.780 explain some people didn't get a heart or software upgrade and they're you know stupid

01:05:41.300 the universe has suspiciously perfect physical constants the fundamental constants of physics 0.97

01:05:47.780 like the strength of gravity and the electromagnetic force are fine-tuned to an almost impossible

01:05:53.220 degree this is what i was talking about the numbers listen to this it's all like everything

01:05:57.460 basically adds up or calculates to this golden number change them slightly and the universe

01:06:04.460 couldn't support life or even matter this is called the fine-tuning problem and it's a major

01:06:11.280 unsolved mystery in physics but if the universe is a simulation it makes sense someone set the

01:06:18.480 parameters to create an interesting universe.

01:06:21.220 The dials were turned precisely because someone turned them.

01:06:26.100 12.

01:06:27.780 Random Numbers Don't Really Exist in Computers

01:06:31.240 True randomness doesn't exist in computers.

01:06:34.500 They use pseudo-random number generators that produce sequences that look random but

01:06:38.680 are actually deterministic.

01:06:40.680 Here's the uncomfortable part.

01:06:44.160 quantum mechanics, which is supposed to be truly random, might not be. Some physicists

01:06:49.620 argue that beneath quantum randomness is a deterministic layer we have yet to discover.

01:06:55.620 If that's true, our universe's randomness could be pseudorandom code, just like a simulation.

01:07:03.120 11. Black Holes Delete Information. Or do they?

01:07:08.960 information paradox of black holes asks what happens to information that falls in

01:07:14.480 physics says information can't be destroyed but black holes seem to delete it one solution

01:07:21.360 in a simulation black holes are garbage collection removing outdated or unnecessary data from the

01:07:26.720 system they're not destroying information they're freeing up memory so the black hole could be like

01:07:33.440 your computer cleanup tool that when you or your email thing where it goes through your emails and

01:07:37.840 cleans up the memory and stuff like that to make room for it definitely could make sense

01:07:42.480 stephen hawking spent decades on this problem a simulation would solve it instantly 10 the mandela

01:07:50.420 effect might be patch updates millions of people remember things differently than recorded history

01:07:56.720 shows bernstein versus bernstein bears i remember that luke i am your father versus the actual line

01:08:04.200 nelson mandela dying in prison in a simulation these could be results of patches and updates

01:08:10.840 that slightly altered the past but didn't perfectly update everyone's memories and on that note we're

01:08:17.240 gonna get to some mandela effect because these things i love the mandela effect things because

01:08:21.520 i swear to god there are certain things i will go to my grave saying they were but apparently

01:08:26.560 they're not so what if the world you remember never existed you know the map of the world right

01:08:33.200 sri lanka is below india cuba is south of florida and new zealand is northeast of australia but what

01:08:43.400 if i told you that thousands of people pilots teachers travelers remember these places in

01:08:49.880 completely different locations did the earth shift beneath our feet or did reality itself

01:08:55.460 rewrite the rules this is not just about a bad memory it is about a world that feels

01:09:01.000 altered as if someone hit update on our timeline while we were not looking are we misremembering

01:09:07.780 or are we catching glimpses of a version of earth that no longer exists shifting maps and lost lands

01:09:16.160 i think people who suffer from or get mandela effect i think that they were on a different

01:09:20.720 timeline and somehow they got stuck in this one that's what i think the world map feels permanent

01:09:25.660 borders may change but oceans continents and islands do not just pick up and move at least

01:09:32.240 that is what we are told yet thousands of people swear the earth itself has shifted under their

01:09:37.860 feet take we could take this too with the whole flat earth argument too right when people who

01:09:41.940 really believe the earth is flat maybe they're from a different timeline where the earth is flat

01:09:46.140 who knows maybe their their programming is different sri lanka many recall it dangling

01:09:52.520 just below India, like a teardrop at the tip of the subcontinent. But look now, it sits farther

01:09:59.080 east, tucked under Bangladesh, as though it drifted across the Bay of Bengal while no one was

01:10:05.220 watching. Cuba tells a similar story. Some remember it as a small island directly south of Florida.

01:10:12.500 Today, it is a sprawling mass, stretching west, closer to Mexico than Miami. And New Zealand?

01:10:19.460 For countless people, it once rested northeast of Australia.

01:10:23.900 Now it is planted firmly to the southeast as someone copied-pasted it to a new quadrant.

01:10:30.320 Scientists wave this away, blaming bad memory, distorted school maps, or satellite projections.

01:10:37.060 But here's the strange part.

01:10:38.740 These are not random.

01:10:40.120 The whole Cuba thing, like, come on, isn't that why, like, they would come from, go to Miami?

01:10:45.120 Like, because it was, like, in such close proximity to Florida, to Miami?

01:10:48.980 like that i remember them being pretty close and i don't know if i was maybe taught with old books

01:10:55.440 when i was in in school and they've updated it but like yeah i'm pretty sure that's why there 0.95

01:11:00.960 were so many cubans that went to florida because they could literally hop in a dinghy and fucking

01:11:04.580 float across mistakes they are the same mistakes remembered the same way by people from entirely 0.64

01:11:11.920 different backgrounds. Pilots, teachers, students, travelers, entire coastlines

01:11:18.160 look wrong to them. So are we misremembering the world we learned? Or

01:11:22.600 are we remembering a version of Earth that no longer exists in this timeline?

01:11:29.280 Sacred Symbols and Texts. If there's anything you would expect to remain

01:11:34.680 unchanged, it is religion. Prayers, scriptures, sacred symbols, these are

01:11:40.240 supposed to be timeless, preserved word for word through centuries. Yet even here, the Mandela

01:11:46.320 effect creeps in. Take the Lord's Prayer. Millions grew up reciting the line, forgive us our

01:11:52.900 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Am I the only one that remembers

01:11:59.160 saying that? Like, that's, I mean, I still say that. Am I wrong? But open many modern Bibles

01:12:06.380 today and you will find a different line forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors for some

01:12:14.100 this version feels alien like it slipped in one night while no one was looking then there's the

01:12:20.740 i wonder if we got it from our priests though like our individual like i don't know maybe in 0.94

01:12:25.760 their sermons they say it that way but that's fucking crazy i've never said anything different 0.68

01:12:30.220 i always thought that's what it was eye of horus the ancient egyptian symbol of protection 0.96

01:12:35.540 Some remember it always facing left, others always right.

01:12:40.100 Now art historians...

01:12:41.360 What's that, Chad? You said Schofield Bible?

01:12:44.000 Is that in a specific Bible that it says that, or is it in all of them? 0.95

01:12:49.360 Oh, it's the Jewish one.

01:12:52.080 Historians insist it was never consistent.

01:12:55.460 Yet temple murals and textbooks from past decades tell a different story.

01:13:00.000 Even the Christian cross has become tangled in debate.

01:13:02.960 Some recall it as a simple T-shape, but in older art, variations appear.

01:13:08.360 Crosses with looped tops resembling an ankh or slanted lower bars.

01:13:13.080 Are these just stylistic differences or evidence of shape?

01:13:17.000 Oh, maybe. Maybe, Donald.

01:13:18.620 Yeah, because like Roman Catholic, that's what I remember.

01:13:21.420 That's the only thing I've ever remembered them saying, so it could be.

01:13:24.820 Shifting memory.

01:13:25.960 When what's sacred begins to blur, the unease is different from geography or logos.

01:13:31.040 It asks a deeper question. If divine texts and symbols can change, were they ever fixed at all?

01:13:39.740 Mind tricks and psychology glitches. If maps and scriptures can shift, what about the very

01:13:47.940 frameworks we use to understand ourselves? Psychology is supposed to be grounded in

01:13:53.140 science, but even here, the lines blur. Think back to Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs.

01:13:59.880 At the top of that pyramid sat self-actualization, creativity, purpose, fulfillment.

01:14:06.800 But in newer psychology texts, many find a surprise.

01:14:11.260 The pinnacle is now listed as self-transcendence, a step beyond the self, focused on higher consciousness and unity.

01:14:19.060 This probably came in. This, I believe, was a lot of these things, I think, were just changed.

01:14:23.720 okay and they want us to believe that they weren't because the hierarchy of needs and stuff like that

01:14:30.160 it sounds like they've changed it to accommodate the gender specials and stuff like that because

01:14:35.840 i remember again i studied psychology when i was younger um and social work and all that kind of

01:14:41.940 stuff and that hierarchy of needs didn't have that in it i i would bet like a thousand dollars on it

01:14:48.320 So I think that they're just kind of changing the books and the, kind of like in 1984, right?

01:14:57.000 Where they rewrite everything and get rid of all the old stuff.

01:15:00.520 Did Maslow quietly rewrite his own pyramid?

01:15:04.120 Or did reality patch in an update when no one was looking?

01:15:07.700 Or consider color theory?

01:15:09.300 Thanks, Uncle Semite.

01:15:10.220 I might actually go and check that out too, because I don't think I saw any of those ones, those videos.

01:15:16.560 But that's a good tip.

01:15:18.320 Eerie. Generations of children were taught that mixing red and blue makes purple. Yet modern explanations of light and wavelengths challenge that simple truth. Claiming red and blue do not really produce purple in pure physics. Even the old left brain versus right brain theory.

01:15:37.120 Okay. Again, I'm pretty sure if you mix red and purple or red and blue paint together, it makes purple. So I don't like I don't get what they're saying.

01:15:47.160 once drilled into classrooms has dissolved into myth for decades we labeled people as logical or

01:15:54.320 creative yeah i love this stuff uncle semite so yeah i'm gonna check it out based on their

01:16:00.060 hemispheres now it is dismissed as oversimplified were we all just wrong for years or did psychology

01:16:07.880 itself glitch leaving us with textbooks from a timeline that no longer exists i think again a

01:16:16.700 more and i i want to believe in this stuff okay i'm like the x-files i want to believe that we're

01:16:21.820 in a simulation because it's interesting as fuck but the book thing i think that just some books

01:16:29.020 got left behind like you know they weren't able to get rid of all of them and maybe that were 0.64

01:16:32.500 you know remembering books that we had when we were kids and they've kind of gotten rid of most

01:16:37.460 of those and and now they've you know got the new narrative in the new books because even in in

01:16:42.480 college right in university i remember asking them like why do i have to buy you know so like

01:16:48.620 me and a classmate i would take the course you know this year and then you know my friend or

01:16:52.980 whatever would have taken the course the year after and they're and she couldn't use my book 0.81

01:16:56.860 and i'm like why and well because the books change every year why the fuck do you need to change the 0.95

01:17:01.140 book every year telling you that it's because they're rewriting shit global oddities and local 0.91

01:17:07.640 memories the mandela effects are not just a western phenomenon some of the strangest shifts

01:17:13.960 come from outside the spotlight tucked into local cultures where they are rarely discussed online

01:17:19.480 in india for example many people claim to remember the taj mahal with a golden dome

01:17:25.440 not painted not temporary i remember that with it like well the pictures i've seen had a golden

01:17:30.840 dome but then again now i'm thinking they build a lot of mosques like that and maybe i was just

01:17:35.960 seeing a mosque in the local neighborhood or Indian temple maybe or something and but I swear

01:17:42.000 I can remember as a kid seeing pictures of the Taj Mahal and it was gold on the top but then

01:17:45.880 there might have been some Russian buildings too that looked like that similar shining in the sun

01:17:50.100 immortalized on old postcards and family photographs yet searched today and it has

01:17:56.340 always been white marble without a trace of gold in Brazil entire communities recall a soda called

01:18:03.360 coca-cola laranja orange coke people describe its label the taste and even the stores that sold it

01:18:11.140 but there's no official record no advertising no production it is as if it were deleted from

01:18:17.820 history and in japan some remember their national flag differently that's cool uncle semite boy you

01:18:25.340 got a lot more energy than me but that would be good to know honestly the changes because

01:18:31.080 they don't tell people they like even if they tell you know oh you have to use the updated one

01:18:36.220 they don't really tell you what they've updated the iconic red circle they say wasn't always

01:18:43.960 centered for them it sat slightly to the left taught in classrooms as the official design

01:18:49.980 now every archive insists it was always in the middle what's fascinating is not just the details

01:18:57.160 but how these memories are. Oh, I bet Uncle Sam, your mom was an Irish Catholic. I bet it was a

01:19:02.760 fun time. A regional. They cluster in certain places, almost like reality applying different

01:19:09.080 patches in different parts of the world. If that is true, then the Mandela effect is not a glitch.

01:19:15.460 It is a system. One updates itself quietly, culture by culture. Body changes and biology

01:19:24.040 updates. What if the Mandela Effect is not just out there in maps or monuments, but inside you,

01:19:30.880 written into your very body? For many, that is where the unease becomes impossible to ignore.

01:19:37.480 Take the kidneys. In school, most of us learned they sit low in the back, just above the hips. 0.89

01:19:44.560 That is why a blow to the lower back was said to be dangerous. But today's anatomical charts

01:19:50.140 placed them much higher, tucked under the ribcage,

01:19:53.780 far from where countless people were taught.

01:19:56.220 But maybe with this, again,

01:19:58.000 technology's come to the point where maybe they didn't know

01:20:00.120 because they didn't have, like, ultrasound or whatever

01:20:02.120 that could identify it.

01:20:03.340 So now, and I wonder, too, if it's because people are, like, 0.97

01:20:06.620 fucking fatter now. 0.98

01:20:07.600 Maybe they've been shifted. 1.00

01:20:08.780 I don't know.

01:20:09.300 But, like, maybe now they were able to get a better picture

01:20:12.240 of where they are exactly.

01:20:13.200 So this might not be a Mandela thing.

01:20:14.940 This could just be technology.

01:20:16.860 Did our organs migrate?

01:20:18.020 or did the textbooks quietly change? The skull has its own mystery. Modern models reveal ridges

01:20:25.420 and even small horn-like bumps at the back of the head called external occipital protuberances.

01:20:32.200 No, that's if you are a Satanist. They have supposedly always been there. Yet many insist

01:20:39.220 mannequins and diagrams from childhood showed nothing of the sort. And then there's the

01:20:45.240 mesentery. Long considered a mere connective tissue, it was suddenly classified as a full

01:20:50.480 organ, essential and permanent. Medical journals say it has always been there, just overlooked.

01:20:57.100 But to those who studied biology decades ago, it feels like a new download. Add to that octopuses

01:21:03.320 with three hearts and nine brains and sharks with no bones at all. And it begins to feel less like

01:21:09.700 science and more like biology updating while we sleep yeah that i know chad that some of them are

01:21:16.180 more towards this because that's the thing too like i i it was probably just 10 years ago that

01:21:20.780 i i learned that the probably when i took first aid maybe um that the heart was actually in the

01:21:26.700 center or is it off to the side i can't remember i i thought it was the opposite and um there they

01:21:33.080 say that i think it's more towards the center but you're right some people have it shifted

01:21:37.260 It's depending, I guess, on their, you know, physiognomy, I guess, or physiology. 0.97

01:21:45.440 That's awesome, Trump has syphilis. 0.94

01:21:47.120 I would not go, maybe don't eat the Taco Bell. 0.98

01:21:50.320 I don't know what to tell you.

01:21:51.660 Pepto-bismol.

01:21:52.920 Effects do not just appear and stay.

01:21:55.480 They flip.

01:21:56.240 They shift one way, spark confusion, and then quietly reverse as if nothing happened.

01:22:02.020 These are called flip-flop effects, and they are some of the strangest of all.

01:22:05.920 Think about Tank Man, the lone figure who stood in front of tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.

01:22:14.040 The man was alone. The tank was not. It wasn't just a single tank he stopped. There were 18...

01:22:19.820 Many people vividly recall seeing him crushed, run over on film in school documentaries.

01:22:26.300 That could have been propaganda, much like the World War II propaganda that they, you know, filled our schools with after World War II was over.

01:22:33.660 Yet today, no such footage exists. In the official version, he walks away unharmed.

01:22:41.340 Did history rewrite itself, or did reality roll back and edit we were not supposed to notice?

01:22:47.220 Logos tell a similar story. 0.90

01:22:49.120 Yeah, exactly, Uncle Semite. It's not a good way to prove your point. 0.99

01:22:53.360 The Chick-fil-A brand has been remembered as Chick, Chick, and Chick.

01:22:58.820 With some people swearing, the spelling has shifted back and forth more than once.

01:23:03.240 Even Fruit of the Loom's cornucopia.

01:23:04.640 Okay, this one I remember.

01:23:06.100 I don't know if you guys remember.

01:23:07.040 I swear as a kid I remember this cornucopia being in the logo.

01:23:11.040 But they're now trying to tell us that it was never there.

01:23:13.480 Come on now.

01:23:14.460 I wish I had something from when I was a kid that was Fruit of the Loom.

01:23:17.480 Because it was literally on the tag.

01:23:19.880 Nucopia has reportedly vanished.

01:23:22.540 Reappeared briefly on old packaging.

01:23:24.940 Then disappeared again.

01:23:26.260 These are not just memory mistakes.

01:23:28.740 They are glitches that corrected themselves, like reality hit undo, which raises a chilling thought.

01:23:35.200 If the world can flip-flop, maybe we are not just remembering wrong.

01:23:39.660 We are catching edits in progress.

01:23:43.500 You know what, Donald DuckTater?

01:23:44.900 That's what I know people have said, but I don't know.

01:23:46.820 Again, I'm a Canadian, so I've only gone to Chick-fil-A once when I was in the States, I think. 0.88

01:23:51.820 But I always remember when I saw the commercials, for some reason, and it's like the Berenstain Bears thing, I've always thought it was just C-H-I-K. 0.51

01:24:00.560 But, you know, again, I'm not an American, so I can't say, you know, I've seen it change in real time. 0.98

01:24:07.180 False memories or hidden patches.

01:24:10.360 Whenever the Mandela effect comes up.

01:24:12.540 Oh, skeptic. 0.99

01:24:13.520 So it was always chick? 0.64

01:24:15.760 OK, so, yeah, now I don't feel crazy.

01:24:17.580 I swear. 1.00

01:24:18.200 Yeah, I remember it just being C-H-I-K.

01:24:20.400 That was kind of the thing.

01:24:21.200 It was supposed to look like a kid spelled it.

01:24:23.480 That was like their whole shtick.

01:24:26.200 ...are quick with an answer, false memories.

01:24:29.220 They argue the brain fills gaps with familiar patterns,

01:24:32.940 and then groups reinforce those errors until they feel real.

01:24:37.520 Psychologists call it confabulation.

01:24:40.820 Simple, tidy, scientific.

01:24:43.600 But here's the problem.

01:24:45.120 Why do millions of people across different countries, languages, and generations

01:24:49.720 make the same mistake in the same way.

01:24:53.860 Why do strangers misremember identical song lyrics,

01:24:57.500 logos, and even entire maps?

01:25:00.080 I've been guilty of that.

01:25:01.840 That is more than a random error.

01:25:04.100 That is a pattern.

01:25:06.140 And patterns suggest design.

01:25:08.620 Some believe Mandela effects are artifacts of a simulated reality.

01:25:12.560 Like a video game updating its textures,

01:25:15.740 the universe quietly rolls out patches,

01:25:18.120 and our memories sometimes cling to the old version.

01:25:21.980 The difference with the Mandela effect is that some of the patients

01:25:24.400 actually start to believe that it's happening to them.

01:25:26.900 Others suggest dimensional overlap, that we slip between near...

01:25:30.980 That's what I'm saying. We're slipping in between two different timelines.

01:25:35.660 ...really identical timelines.

01:25:37.640 Like Rick and Morty, you know?

01:25:39.420 And memory is just a residue from the last one.

01:25:42.760 Either way, it leaves us with an unsettling possibility.

01:25:46.200 Maybe what we remember is more accurate than what we see.

01:25:49.700 If that is true, then doubt is not confusion.

01:25:53.520 It is evidence that reality itself has been rewritten.

01:25:58.560 So there you go.

01:25:59.460 We're in the matrix, guys.

01:26:01.200 We don't need to hear his closing reflection.

01:26:03.740 We don't care about that.

01:26:06.440 But like I said, there's a lot of things.

01:26:09.240 The matrix, like the Nelson Mandela thing,

01:26:10.840 I always remember as a kid, I thought he was dead. 0.57

01:26:13.420 The Berenstain Bears.

01:26:14.600 and I did read a lot of books so I don't know why that one sticks with me there was another one too

01:26:19.060 they didn't talk about it but uh Sinbad I remember it being um it was this other guy I know it was

01:26:28.760 Shaquille it was actually Shaquille O'Neal but I remember it being Sinbad Sinbad I think the actual

01:26:35.400 comedian but apparently that didn't happen

01:26:37.460 what's that uncle semi my opinion is if you ask simulation theory person 15

01:26:46.580 yeah yeah yeah i yeah i agree with that inconsistencies are bugs in the update process

01:26:55.260 what if your memories aren't wrong what if reality was edited nine maybe this is why a lot of people

01:27:03.180 again are on ssris and they feel like they're going crazy maybe they're not really going crazy

01:27:07.940 it's just that you know everybody wants them to think that because they're hanging on to these

01:27:11.860 memories and they you know there was a glitch in their update deja vu might be a memory buffer

01:27:17.640 error that feeling of having experienced something before but knowing you haven't deja vu affects

01:27:24.540 about 70 of people yet remains scientifically unexplained in computing terms deja vu could

01:27:31.200 be a memory caching error where an experience is simultaneously written to short-term and long-term

01:27:36.600 memory i think this is what freaks me out the most about any of these you know whatever things 0.98

01:27:41.860 that happen whether it's a mandela or is the deja vu shit like that fucking freaks me out like 0.95

01:27:47.240 especially when you can feel it in your bones that you've met this person before you you've seen this 0.99

01:27:52.680 person before but you just can't actually grasp onto the fucking actual evidence of it it's fucking 0.98

01:27:58.760 it drives me insane in the present moment feel like a past memory your brain might be glitching 0.98

01:28:05.120 because the simulation is glitching eight the universe started with incredibly low entropy

01:28:11.000 the big bang began with remarkably low entropy an incredibly ordered state that's statistically

01:28:17.960 almost impossible the odds against this happening naturally are absurdly small but a simulation

01:28:25.120 would need to start with an ordered state like initializing a program the low entropy big bang

01:28:31.400 looks exactly like what you'd expect from a deliberate system startup the universe might

01:28:36.480 have been switched on with default settings seven and then we keep getting our upgrades you know

01:28:42.320 we can't find evidence of alien civilizations the fermi paradox asks if the universe well

01:28:50.400 if you know you are the daily mail they believe that there is evidence somewhere this the u.s

01:28:57.540 has some kind of hidden evidence that there are different kinds of aliens that walk among us one

01:29:03.420 of them being the lizard people and this i can get on because what's with all the people um wearing

01:29:08.420 the masks lately and like the really you know that's there's like two people recently i've seen

01:29:13.540 on media that have been it looks like they're obviously wearing a mask right so i i think it's

01:29:19.540 entirely possible that there are actual aliens we just don't know they're aliens so vast and old

01:29:25.300 where is everyone we should have detected alien civilizations i mean i want to believe that 1.00

01:29:30.840 indians are aliens because i can't imagine another human being could behave in that way and be that 1.00

01:29:36.360 disgusting so i like to think that it makes me feel better because it's just to imagine you know 1.00

01:29:42.760 another human being acting in that way and behaving that way it's just it's too hard to

01:29:47.000 grasp onto but we have it one simulation theory answer they weren't programmed if the simulation

01:29:55.360 is about earth or even about you why would the programmers waste resources rendering billions of

01:30:00.860 other civilizations it's like the game little big planet the universe might be empty because it was

01:30:06.360 made for us specifically six physics gets weirder the closer you look at the quantum scale reality

01:30:14.760 stops making intuitive sense. Particles are waves. Cats are simultaneously alive and dead.

01:30:22.000 Entanglement allows instant communication across space. This is exactly what you'd

01:30:27.140 expect if the simulation only renders detailed reality when necessary. At normal scales,

01:30:33.400 rough approximations work. Get too close, and you see the abstraction layer beneath.

01:30:40.080 Quantum mechanics might be where the code shows through.

01:30:43.140 five we might be npcs not players i mean yes there's clearly many many npcs more by the day

01:30:52.180 so again this could be you know some kind of upgrade in the in the matrix or whatever like

01:30:56.940 that but i do think that you know to be fair if i'm an npc i'm probably one of the top level

01:31:02.940 npcs because you know i am able to think critically at least most of the time but i think that you

01:31:08.280 know those low level npcs that are legit just standing there and they just turn from one side

01:31:12.720 to the other and they really don't interact with people we're getting more and more of those

01:31:16.320 here's a disturbing possibility even if we're in a simulation we might not be the main characters

01:31:24.140 we could be background npcs in someone else's story the simulation might be running for one

01:31:30.460 conscious being while the rest of us are sophisticated ai mimics every time i see

01:31:34.640 people wearing one of these things again i don't know if you guys have seen the movie but if you

01:31:37.880 haven't you should watch it is demolition man it has sylvester stallone and you know wesley snipes

01:31:42.700 before he you know went to jail for tax evasion it's like from the i want to say it's from the

01:31:47.040 late 80s the movie maybe early 90s um and like they literally this is how they have sex they

01:31:53.040 wear these things and uh you know sylvester stallone the story is he came from you know

01:31:57.680 the 80s i guess or whatever 80s or 90s and they've gone you know he's been cryogenically frozen and

01:32:05.360 gets woken up a year a hundred years later i think it is and like they don't even touch each

01:32:10.100 other people don't touch each other anymore physically it's all virtual reality everything

01:32:13.400 and like their fancy restaurant is taco bell it's all corporatized you'd never know i agree

01:32:20.260 uncle semi conscious we have to be right just like in you know all characters in video games

01:32:25.860 they have certain characters that have better powers like you know they're they have a higher

01:32:30.800 you know um intelligence they have higher you know survivability all that kind of stuff i agree

01:32:36.580 that's what we are yeah virtual it was virtual sex chad literally and i remember the one part was 0.97

01:32:43.280 like stallone because again he came from the past he had no fucking clue he's like ready to get it 0.99

01:32:48.720 on and touch her and she was like what are you doing you know it was it was crazy you got to 0.95

01:32:52.380 watch the movie because when you watch like back then when we watched those movies we couldn't

01:32:56.540 fathom a future ever looking like that yeah that yeah your hair looks like a couch um but we 0.99

01:33:05.560 couldn't imagine that stuff and now when you're looking at some of these movies it's like fuck 0.94

01:33:09.000 this is actually happening their way the person you're talking to might be the real player or you 0.90

01:33:15.280 might both be npcs and the players watching from somewhere else entirely well i hope whoever's

01:33:20.360 watching my life is getting a chuckle you know because i have to think that god laughs yeah the

01:33:23.940 three shells yes the three shells yeah so you've seen it clearly death might not be the end in a

01:33:33.120 simulation. If consciousness is software, death might just be a state change. The simulation

01:33:40.640 might reload your consciousness elsewhere, run you again from a save point, or transfer you to

01:33:45.340 a different simulation. And I believe this just because energy, right, if you believe, even if

01:33:50.940 you don't believe in the simulation theory, energy can't be destroyed, it can only be transferred,

01:33:54.900 right? So I've always believed that when somebody dies, their energy has to go somewhere. So whether

01:34:01.300 that is being reincarnated, whether it means you are, you know, transferred into an animal

01:34:06.460 or something. I have always believed that you're always continually being reborn as

01:34:10.560 whether it's, you know, another human being or into an animal or God forbid, a bug, or

01:34:15.920 God forbid, even worse, a jeet. Oh, is it? Is that your take on it? Is wearing a mask

01:34:23.460 is a bad lady? You think? You think, Donald? Hmm, I don't know, man. I thought that at

01:34:29.320 first too but then i was just like i don't know man it doesn't look like a i'd have to i'd have

01:34:34.580 to study it more and look at it more but uh have you seen the like the masks that they can make

01:34:40.220 like i didn't believe it at first either until i saw that a different video they showed these

01:34:45.260 like silicone masks and like how they can actually grip onto your face so well that it's really hard

01:34:50.640 to tell that it's fucking not that person so now again if your face structure was quite different

01:34:57.400 than the person wearing the mask then that might not work out because they're you know it's the 0.97

01:35:01.860 silicone grips your face i guess but if they got somebody that looked similar i don't know man

01:35:07.620 religious concepts of afterlife reincarnation and but imagine if that's true that poor guy 0.98

01:35:13.760 imagine the shame you would feel like my fucking my turkey neck is hanging so bad people think i'm 0.99

01:35:17.960 wearing a fucking mask oh god kill me could all be features of the system what we call death might 0.99

01:35:25.460 just be a transition the programmers built in the simulation might have backup saves of everyone 1.00

01:35:31.420 it's a strangely comforting thought or terrifying depending on what kind of yeah man i don't know if

01:35:37.760 i reincarnated either way put me in like a cat's i want to be a cat so i can like sleep and eat

01:35:43.060 and shit all day yeah the mission impossible masks that's what i'm saying and they actually 0.98

01:35:48.740 like when you watch it a mission impossible you're like oh fuck this is government tech right 1.00

01:35:52.340 now this shit like you can buy some realistic silicone masks probably online now game over 0.99

01:35:58.140 might not mean what you think three our simulators might be running their own simulations 0.99

01:36:04.460 if we're simulated our creators probably are too and their creators and theirs and theirs

01:36:12.460 and then so on the computational stack could be nearly infinite with layers of simulations

01:36:18.640 within simulations this raises a terrifying question yeah that would also be awesome you

01:36:27.020 know and then like you get the ultimate like you don't you can go and scare people and then but

01:36:31.760 when people say that they've seen you nobody believes them so like you're kind of marked

01:36:35.060 safe from everybody hours making it down to our level we might be running on the absolute dregs

01:36:41.260 of a vast computational hierarchy reality might be a simulation of a simulation of a simulation

01:36:46.840 two there's no way to prove we're not in a simulation this is the unsettling part

01:36:54.020 any evidence we find could be part you can't really prove a negative right so i don't know

01:37:00.840 all right simulation any test we run could have simulated results the hypothesis is unfalsifiable

01:37:09.340 by design we could be like fish trying to detect water we're so inside the simulation that we can't

01:37:16.320 conceive of what outside would even look like if we're in a simulation we might never know for

01:37:22.220 certain if we're not we might never prove that either one the simulation could end at any moment

01:37:30.380 every simulation yes this is how civilizations end i think that's it the game's over

01:37:36.140 we've got we've achieved what we you know plan to do now it's time to reload a new game new more

01:37:41.280 advanced game eventually get shut down servers are decommissioned can we put in a request for

01:37:46.580 less indians please players get bored budgets run out if we're in a simulation there's nothing

01:37:54.020 preventing our simulators from pulling the plug one moment everything is normal the next nothing 0.99

01:38:00.760 but then we wouldn't really know right if we got unplugged the thing is we'd be uh yeah pompey

01:38:05.820 game over screen we wouldn't really know that we just you know go on living in the new simulation

01:38:10.660 like nothing ever happened, right? So I guess, you know, it doesn't matter at the end of the day.

01:38:16.520 So that was the that was that one. But I wanted to share just one more before we

01:38:21.100 call it a night because there's paradoxes in physics, right? They talk about this in the

01:38:27.520 essay thing that I read. Where is it? I pulled it up here. Yeah, with synchronicities and intuition

01:38:35.080 and cultural resonance, all this stuff. So they talk about it a little bit in this video,

01:38:40.380 the grandfather paradox am i sharing it with you it's the 10 scary scariest paradoxes in physics

01:38:46.080 that prove reality is not really what we think so we're going to check this out and then see how we

01:38:52.660 feel about whether or not we're in a simulation paradox you travel back in time you find your

01:39:01.320 grandfather before your parent is born you stop him from ever having children your parent never

01:39:06.720 exists. You never exist. You were never born. You never traveled back in time. Your grandfather

01:39:12.200 lives. Your parent is born. You exist. You travel back in time. Repeat. Forever. Here

01:39:19.280 is what makes this more than a thought experiment. Einstein's field equations do not forbid time

01:39:24.220 travel. Formally. Physicist Kurt Godel proved in 1949 that certain solutions to general

01:39:30.360 relativity allow for closed time-like curves, paths through space-time that loop back on

01:39:35.640 themselves. The math does not break. It works perfectly. That is the problem. Scientists tried

01:39:41.680 to escape it. Stephen Hawking proposed the chronology protection conjecture, the idea that

01:39:47.020 nature conspires to prevent time travel because of paradoxes like this one. But if you believe the

01:39:52.720 multi-universe theory, right, the multi-dimension whatever, maybe when you go back in time, you're

01:39:59.820 going back in time to a different reality and that's why it doesn't change your the future

01:40:05.820 that's that's what i'm thinking it's possible but that is not a law it is a wish there is no

01:40:11.700 mechanism no equation that enforces it other physicists tried the novikov self-consistency

01:40:17.520 principle you can travel back in time but you can only do things that already happened the timeline

01:40:23.160 is a fixed loop you have what's that uncle semite speaking of paradoxes in physics limitless

01:40:29.600 potential technologies on youtube white guy from bc make an open source free energy in his garage

01:40:34.540 i believe it's legit i you know what there was because i was looking at this too like

01:40:40.520 anytime somebody's come up with this uh kind of free energy or or energy outside of like oil and

01:40:47.020 gas and stuff like that like i said the the fission nuclear fission and all this kind of stuff there

01:40:51.460 and there was well actually it wasn't it was a car somebody had created a car um and this was

01:40:58.080 probably in the early 20th century that ran on I don't know if it was water or vinegar it was

01:41:04.020 something else that was like naturally you could find and they basically kiboshed either that or

01:41:09.640 he either disappeared or he got Epstein'd one or the other so I believe that this guy's probably

01:41:15.540 doing it but I would also be a little bit afraid of you know being Epstein'd myself if I was

01:41:20.920 inventing that kind of technology it's like the scientists that went missing that I was I talked

01:41:24.940 about like a month ago they were looking at these gravity um weapons right negative gravity whatever

01:41:31.620 that could potentially create like black holes and stuff like that so and now all of a sudden

01:41:36.040 these people are all missing so explain he's made it an updated bedini wheel explains the whole thing 0.93

01:41:42.720 you already proved excess oh see you know what's going to happen uncle semite people are going to

01:41:47.960 get making this kind of stuff and then they're going to shut the simulation down they're gonna

01:41:50.700 be like nope these guys are getting to know too much they're able to do too much we got to shut 0.97

01:41:54.960 it down okay the water engine you're talking it's a hydrogen engine oh really holy shit no free will 0.99

01:42:02.780 inside it think about they'll never mass market that shit though right because or if they do 0.97

01:42:07.640 it'll be like oh it'll be the same thing like we'll have to charge taxes water is gonna you 0.97

01:42:11.440 know we're gonna run out of water if time travel is possible free will may be mathematically

01:42:16.980 forbidden. The universe doesn't allow you to change anything, only to fulfill what was always

01:42:21.880 going to happen. And no one can tell you why. Number 9. The Fermi Paradox. The Milky Way is 13.6

01:42:28.880 billion years old. It contains between 100 and 400 billion stars. Conservative estimates place

01:42:35.400 the number of Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone at 40 billion. So that's what I mean,

01:42:40.080 okay? This is what I'm saying. And there's no other living beings out there. If there's 40

01:42:44.840 billion earth-like planets that have the same kind so they're they have no kind of life they

01:42:50.500 weren't able to you know create life like we did it seems a little sus to me the universe has been

01:42:56.000 running this experiment for most of its existence even if intelligent life emerges around just one

01:43:01.000 in a million suitable planets are that's awesome uncle semite that's fucking so cool galaxy should

01:43:07.860 contain tens of thousands of civilizations many of them millions of years older than us where are

01:43:13.760 they? In 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi sat down at lunch and did the math. The numbers

01:43:19.760 are undeniable. A civilization even a few thousand years ahead of us could colonize

01:43:24.920 the entire galaxy in under 10 million years, using ships that travel at just 1% the speed

01:43:30.380 of light. That is cosmically trivial time. The galaxy should be full. The radio bands

01:43:35.720 should be screaming with signals. There is nothing. Scientists tried every explanation.

01:43:41.240 they're hiding maybe they destroy themselves before they can expand maybe interstellar travel

01:43:46.260 is impossible in practice maybe this is where i get on board with the simulation thing because

01:43:51.300 again the fact that there's been no other like whether it's aliens advanced civilization that

01:43:57.420 has come and shown themselves or that we've we've discovered through all the different you know

01:44:02.300 experiments they do with space and shit like that makes me think that we're just in a simulation

01:44:07.660 and we're you know that's the limits we can't get we don't have that programming to be able to

01:44:12.300 have aliens and stuff like that or see aliens they're using communication methods we haven't

01:44:16.700 invented yet but here is the implication no one wants to say out loud the silence may mean there

01:44:22.380 is a filter some step in the development of intelligent life that almost nothing survives

01:44:27.500 either we already passed it and we are the miracle or it lies ahead of us and we don't know which if

01:44:33.980 If the universe is filled with dead planets, we are living on borrowed time.

01:44:38.420 Number eight, the information paradox.

01:44:41.460 Everything you are is information.

01:44:43.580 Every atom in your body, every relationship between those atoms,

01:44:47.360 every quantum state that makes you you, it is all encoded in the physical universe.

01:44:52.380 And one of the most fundamental laws of quantum mechanics says that...

01:44:56.120 Yes, Uncle Sem, again. 0.60

01:44:58.300 I don't even, that's another thing.

01:44:59.680 We could go down on one of these conspiracy podcasts or whatever.

01:45:03.980 live streams is, is the moon even real? Like I've heard things that, you know, people say it was

01:45:08.680 hollow. There was something was released, I guess they've released some of the footage, the UFO

01:45:14.700 footage or whatever. And one of the astronauts that went to the moon, they saw something that

01:45:19.020 was on there or something, and they never released that picture, all kinds of crazy shit. So one of 0.98

01:45:25.000 the other stories I heard is that it was like, it's like hollow inside. And it's like a German 1.00

01:45:28.680 satellite, like there's been so many different things I've heard. But my question with the moon

01:45:33.180 is is that why have we not gone back if it was that easy in the 70s to get to the moon and okay

01:45:40.500 I'm not saying it's easy but if they were able to achieve it in the 70s it should be like nothing

01:45:46.100 now for them to do it but they've never gone back right so I don't know maybe it was faked the whole

01:45:51.540 thing and we can't even go there or if we get on board with the topic of today it's a simulation

01:45:57.300 and we're just not able to leave the simulation to go visit the moon the moon doesn't even exist

01:46:01.420 Information cannot be destroyed. Not compressed. Not hidden. Destroyed. The universe forbids it.

01:46:08.820 Then a black hole formed. Yeah, the galleons. Black holes devour everything that crosses the

01:46:14.900 event horizon. Nothing escapes. Not light. Not matter. Not signals of any kind. Stephen Hawking

01:46:20.900 showed in 1974 that black holes do slowly evaporate. They radiate thermal energy now

01:46:26.880 called Hawking radiation. Over trillions of years, a black hole loses mass and eventually

01:46:31.960 disappears. Here is the problem. Hawking radiation is random. It carries no information about what

01:46:38.120 fell in. When the black hole is gone, the information is gone, truly gone, which is

01:46:43.440 illegal. This isn't a philosophical quibble. This breaks quantum mechanics at the foundation.

01:46:48.600 Because energy can't be destroyed, right? Because what I was always taught about black 1.00

01:46:53.180 is that the gravity is so intense there like you just like you just disappear like you kind of

01:46:58.500 implode on yourself or something because the gravity the pressure is too much

01:47:01.660 but if you follow quantum mechanics energy can't be destroyed only transferred

01:47:07.760 the two most successful theories in physics general relativity and quantum mechanics

01:47:13.100 directly contradict each other here one of them is wrong for 40 years the best minds in physics

01:47:18.720 tried to solve this, Hawking himself fought it his entire career, eventually conceding ground.

01:47:24.240 The leading candidate today is the holographic principle, the idea that information is somehow

01:47:29.680 encoded on the surface of the event horizon, not inside. But this requires that three-dimensional

01:47:34.960 space is a projection of a two-dimensional surface. Reality is a hologram, and even then,

01:47:40.640 no one has proven it. The information paradox remains open, and its implications are worse

01:47:46.560 than the problem. Number seven, the measurement problem. An electron is fired

01:47:51.480 at a barrier with two slits. This is the double slit experiment we already saw.

01:47:54.660 No one watches. It passes through both slits simultaneously, interferes with

01:48:00.240 itself, and lands in a wave-like pattern on the detector. This is not metaphor.

01:48:04.800 This is the measured result replicated billions of times. Now someone watches

01:48:09.280 which slit it goes through. The interference pattern disappears. The

01:48:13.320 The electron picks one slit, behaves like a particle.

01:48:17.060 The act of observation collapsed the wave function.

01:48:20.240 This has been tested with electrons, photons, buckyballs, molecules of 60 carbon atoms,

01:48:26.440 a molecule the size of a small drug compound, exists in superposition.

01:48:30.700 Until you look, here is what no one agrees on.

01:48:33.900 What counts as observation?

01:48:35.540 A camera?

01:48:36.540 A conscious human?

01:48:37.960 An unconscious detector?

01:48:38.960 Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

01:48:40.420 How does it know?

01:48:41.420 Does it require a mind? The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Humans appeared 300,000 years ago.

01:48:48.420 Was the electron behaving strangely for 13.8 billion years before we showed up to notice?

01:48:54.420 Physicists have fractured into camps.

01:48:56.420 Copenhagen says the wave function collapses upon measurement, but refuses to define what measurement is.

01:49:02.420 Many worlds says it never collapses. Every outcome happens in a branch.

01:49:07.420 That's the theory I was talking about, the many worlds theory.

01:49:09.420 universe. Pilot wave theory says, hidden variables guide the particle all along.

01:49:13.980 They all reproduce the same predictions. They all describe a completely different

01:49:18.240 reality. The most dangerous experiment in physics produces results everyone

01:49:23.040 agrees on and a theory no one agrees about. After a hundred years, we do not

01:49:27.960 know what happens when you look at something. That is not an exaggeration.

01:49:31.740 That is the state of physics. Number six, the arrow of time paradox. You know time

01:49:37.980 flows forward, you have never watched a broken egg reassemble itself. You have never seen smoke rush

01:49:43.020 back into a cigarette. Cause comes before effect. Memory points backward. This feels as obvious as

01:49:49.500 gravity. The laws of physics disagree with you. Every fundamental equation in physics—Newton's

01:49:55.740 laws, Maxwell's equations, Einstein's relativity, Schrodinger's wave equation—is time-symmetric.

01:50:02.460 run them forward, run them backward. They work identically. There is no arrow. There is no

01:50:07.980 preferred direction. If you filmed two billiard balls colliding and played it in reverse, the

01:50:13.580 physics would be legal. The only exception is the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy increases.

01:50:19.820 Disorder grows, but this is a statistical law, not a fundamental one. It says probably not always.

01:50:26.380 Given enough time, a broken egg could spontaneously reassemble. The probability is

01:50:31.660 is just so absurdly small that it has never happened in the observable universe.

01:50:36.120 But here is the crisis.

01:50:38.040 If the laws of physics have no direction, and entropy is just statistics, then the arrow

01:50:43.300 of time is not a law.

01:50:44.900 It is a coincidence.

01:50:46.540 We experience time moving forward because we started in an extremely low entropy state,

01:50:51.480 the Big Bang.

01:50:52.640 We are coasting on that initial order, which means time as you experience it is not fundamental.

01:50:57.800 It is a side effect of an accident 13.8 billion years ago.

01:51:01.940 And in a universe old enough, time will stop having a direction altogether.

01:51:06.080 There is nothing in the equations preventing it.

01:51:08.620 Number 5.

01:51:09.620 The fine- 0.99

01:51:10.620 That's fucking weird as fuck. 0.99

01:51:12.100 Can you imagine being in a place where it's like, there's no such thing as time? 0.99

01:51:16.040 Like, I don't even know.

01:51:17.040 What would you do if it doesn't move forward and moves backwards?

01:51:20.360 It would be like Groundhog Day maybe. 0.95

01:51:22.560 Like that movie, again, I'm using a movie, Groundhog Day, where the guy fucking wakes 0.97

01:51:27.140 Except it's the same day every day. 0.97

01:51:29.140 Tuning paradox.

01:51:30.700 The universe has 26 constants, numbers baked into reality at the moment of creation.

01:51:35.780 The speed of light, the strength of gravity, the mass of the electron, the cosmological

01:51:40.520 constant.

01:51:41.520 They don't come from any equation.

01:51:43.260 They are simply set, and they are set with terrifying precision.

01:51:47.140 If the strong nuclear force were 2% weaker, protons wouldn't bind.

01:51:52.020 And that's the other thing, right?

01:51:53.520 So, like, the fact that the Earth is, like, these things are so perfect that for our survival, like, what are the chances of that, of it, like, you know what I mean, developing that we have exactly what we need on this Earth to survive.

01:52:07.720 And there's, as far as we know, there's no other planet that has that exact stuff that we need.

01:52:11.640 And I know you could say, okay, well, we adapted to it, but I don't know, man, I'm starting to think that it was made for us on purpose.

01:52:17.560 No atoms. If the cosmological constant, the energy of empty space, were larger by one part

01:52:24.100 and 10 to the power of 100, and 20,000 universe would have expanded too fast for gravity to form

01:52:29.500 anything. Not just no life, no stars, no galaxies. Yeah, right, Uncle Semite? That's what I mean.

01:52:35.680 Like, it just seems so weird that something natural would be that specific. No structure,

01:52:42.380 – just a cold, thin fog of particles racing apart forever, one part in 10 to the 120th.

01:52:49.980 To appreciate that number, there are estimated to be 10 to the 80th atoms in the observable

01:52:54.900 universe.

01:52:55.900 The fine-tuning of the cosmological constant is more precise than picking one specific

01:53:00.660 atom from a universe-sized pile, 10 trillion trillion trillion times over.

01:53:06.000 Scientists have three answers.

01:53:07.560 first, God, second, the multiverse, if there are infinite universes with random constants,

01:53:13.940 we happen to live in the one where the numbers work, because we couldn't exist to ask the

01:53:17.780 question otherwise, third, there is an undiscovered deeper law that forces these values, every

01:53:24.180 answer is uncomfortable, the multiverse is untestable by definition, an undiscovered

01:53:29.300 law means we know nothing, and the first answer is the one physics has spent three centuries

01:53:33.780 trying not to need. None of the three are settled. All of them change everything. Number four.

01:53:39.740 And maybe that's the way they want it in the simulation, right? That we have these different

01:53:43.740 things we can believe in, but we can't prove any of them. Simulation paradox. In 2003, philosopher

01:53:49.420 Nick Bostrom published a paper that has not been disproven. It presents three possibilities. One,

01:53:55.800 civilizations almost always destroy themselves before reaching the computational power to run

01:54:01.420 realistic simulations of conscious beings and we could extrapolate that to say you know this war 0.96

01:54:07.040 that they've started with iran that the jews have started yet another one is will this be it will 0.93

01:54:12.880 this be the collapse like you know all the countries are being bombarded with you know mass 0.94

01:54:17.520 immigration and and inflation and all this stuff so could this be the end before we because we're

01:54:22.360 getting really close to being able to create a simulation so now you know we're going to have

01:54:27.020 to collapse ahead of time? You never know.

01:54:30.300 2. Civilizations with that power choose not to run such simulations.

01:54:35.060 3. We are almost certainly living inside one right now. The logic is pure probability.

01:54:41.320 If even one civilization in history reaches the technology to simulate conscious minds,

01:54:46.140 and runs those simulations at scale, the number of simulated minds will dwarf the number of

01:54:50.460 real ones by billions to one. You are statistically more likely to be simulated than real. Physicist

01:54:56.360 Silas Bean ran calculations in 2012, suggesting that simulated universes would have detectable

01:55:06.780 artifacts, energy cutoffs at the highest cosmic ray frequencies, because any simulation has

01:55:12.340 resolution limits.

01:55:13.880 A grid, the observable universe, has a cosmic ray energy cutoff at approximately 5 times

01:55:19.620 10 to the 19th electron volts, right where it's 0.69

01:55:22.740 Oh yeah, absolutely, Uncle Semite. 1.00

01:55:25.060 And that's the thing, I guess, you know, we're alive for what I believe is going to be the, you know, end of a civilization. 1.00

01:55:31.600 So we're kind of alive during that, the last, you know, probably the last hundred years,

01:55:37.580 which, you know, not everybody can say they were.

01:55:39.860 So it is definitely an interesting time to be alive.

01:55:43.220 Simulation would need to cap it.

01:55:45.220 He did not say this proves we're simulated, but it doesn't disprove it.

01:55:49.620 Here is what keeps the physicists awake.

01:55:51.440 if this is a simulation the simulator exists outside our physics our laws mean

01:55:56.560 nothing to them they can pause it edit it end it every prayer ever uttered was

01:56:01.460 aimed at the right address and we have no way to reach back no way to ask no

01:56:06.320 way to verify we are potentially someone else's experiment and they have not

01:56:11.120 chosen to tell us number three the quantum suicide paradox the many worlds

01:56:16.700 interpretation of quantum mechanics says this, the wave function never collapses. Every quantum

01:56:22.140 event that can go multiple ways does go multiple ways, in branching parallel universes. When you

01:56:27.820 flip a coin, a universe exists where it landed heads, and a universe where it landed tails.

01:56:33.260 Both are real. This sounds abstract. Physicist Max Tegmark made it personal in 1997. Imagine a

01:56:41.040 quantum gun. It fires or misfires based on the quantum spin of a particle, a genuinely random

01:56:47.060 50-50 event. You point it at your head and pull the trigger. In many worlds, two branches split,

01:56:53.520 one where it fires, one where it misfires. The version of you that experiences anything

01:56:58.200 is the version in the branch where it misfired. From your subjective experience, it always

01:57:03.380 misfires. You are, from your own perspective, immortal. You will always find yourself in the

01:57:09.100 branch where you survived. This is not a metaphor. This is what the mathematics of many worlds

01:57:14.400 predicts, if you take it literally. Every physicist who accepts many worlds and is honest about it

01:57:23.880 has to reckon with this. You have survived every near-death experience, not because you were lucky,

01:57:29.360 but because you could not have experienced the alternative. The terror is not the immortality.

01:57:34.420 The terror is what it... 1.00

01:57:35.600 That's pretty funny, Uncle Semite. 0.58

01:57:38.380 Quantum gun.

01:57:39.400 Every time I hear quantum gun, I think of, again, Rick and Morty.

01:57:42.820 It implies about everyone else.

01:57:44.940 The universe does not protect them.

01:57:47.080 Only you.

01:57:48.100 The people you love...

01:57:48.820 I would like to think that, you know, for Charlie Kirk's sake, that that was what happened.

01:57:53.740 And he's just on a different timeline now.

01:57:55.520 And maybe he doesn't have the same wife who's out there living it up after.

01:58:00.500 ...exist only in branches where they survived.

01:58:03.340 In the branch you're in right now, some of them are already gone,

01:58:06.500 and you have no idea which branches you've already left behind.

01:58:09.820 Number two, the bootstrap paradox.

01:58:12.700 A time traveler arrives in the past and hands Beethoven the complete sheet music for the Fifth Symphony.

01:58:20.880 Beethoven had never written it.

01:58:22.280 He copies it, performs it, it echoes through history,

01:58:26.220 and eventually the time traveler learns it, travels back, and hands it to Beethoven.

01:58:31.500 Where did the music come from?

01:58:32.420 Kind of like what Marty McFly did with the almanac, the sports almanac.

01:58:37.420 This is not science fiction.

01:58:39.620 This is a formally valid solution to the equations of general relativity.

01:58:43.780 A closed information loop, an object or piece of information with no origin point.

01:58:48.720 It was never created.

01:58:49.740 It simply exists, passing from future to past to future, with no beginning and no end.

01:58:56.300 The problem is causality.

01:58:58.160 Every effect requires a cause.

01:59:00.000 The bootstrap paradox produces effects with no cause.

01:59:03.880 The symphony was never composed.

01:59:05.820 It bootstrapped itself into existence.

01:59:08.640 Physicist Igor Novikov's self-consistency principle permits this.

01:59:12.740 As long as the loop is consistent, the physics is legal.

01:59:15.960 But here is what this actually implies.

01:59:18.420 If closed, time-like loops exist, there may be information in this universe,

01:59:23.120 real physical information, that has no origin,

01:59:26.520 knowledge with no source, objects with no maker.

01:59:29.220 the laws of physics allow for things to simply exist uncaused in defiance of everything we

01:59:34.980 believe about reality. And there is no way to tell from the inside whether the history we think we

01:59:40.740 know is original or a loop. Okay, I think I'm convinced we're in a simulation, guys. They're

01:59:45.580 getting me. I'm definitely on board with this. Whether the universe we see is the first version

01:59:50.740 or the thousandth, we are inside the circle, we cannot see the outside, and there may not be one.

01:59:56.600 1. The Boltzmann Brain Paradox

01:59:59.700 In an infinite universe with infinite time, quantum fluctuations will eventually produce every possible arrangement of matter, every configuration, including, with probability exactly equal to one given infinite time, a fully formed human brain, complete with false memories of an entire life, popping into existence for one moment from the void before dissolving back into chaos.

02:00:21.860 This is called a Boltzmann brain, named after physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, who first derived the statistical mechanics that make it not just possible but inevitable, given enough time.

02:00:31.860 Here is the crisis. A Boltzmann brain is far simpler to produce by random fluctuation than an entire ordered universe with consistent physics and billions of years of coherent history.

02:00:42.860 history. Far, far simpler. Which means in a truly infinite universe, Boltzmann brains vastly outnumber beings like us.

02:00:50.860 Beings with real memories, real histories, real environments.

02:00:54.860 It explains a lot of current society, I have to say.

02:00:58.860 Statistical observer in an infinite universe, you are almost certainly a Boltzmann brain.

02:01:03.860 Your memories of childhood are false. The laws of physics you observe are a local fluctuation.

02:01:09.860 In the next moment, the fluctuation ends, the coherence collapses, and the brain dissolves.

02:01:15.640 You would never know.

02:01:16.780 You would feel completely normal right up until the moment you ceased.

02:01:19.760 The fact that you are currently experiencing a coherent, continuous reality with consistent laws is not strong evidence that you're real.

02:01:31.400 A Boltzmann brain would experience exactly the same thing.

02:01:34.380 Physicists call this a catastrophic failure of cosmological reasoning.

02:01:38.300 They have no solution.

02:01:39.860 The math simply refuses to rule you out.

02:01:42.620 Ten paradoxes, ten places where the equations work perfectly and reality falls apart.

02:01:47.360 Time has no direction.

02:01:49.100 Information may not exist.

02:01:51.020 You may be a simulated thought inside a machine that has already been switched off.

02:01:55.100 You may be a random brain in a void, lasting one second before the void reclaims you.

02:02:00.120 The universe did not give us these answers.

02:02:02.380 It gave us the questions.

02:02:04.400 Well, well, well.

02:02:05.920 So what do you guys think about that?

02:02:07.720 Do you think, do you agree with me, Nick?

02:02:09.180 do you think we're in a simulation? I don't know. I think we are. I honestly, I think I'm sold on

02:02:16.340 the fact that we are, this is all just a simulation and, uh, who knows what's going to

02:02:21.260 happen next. We'll see if we, you know, see each other on the other side, uh, if we remember each

02:02:26.140 other or we don't even realize what's going on. But, uh, yeah, that's, that's basically, uh,

02:02:31.540 that's the story. Um, I'm going to call it here, I think. Yes. Cause I got to go have dinner,

02:02:39.280 but, uh, thanks for coming and thanks for participating in my little rabbit hole

02:02:44.780 experiment on whether or not we're actually in reality or in a simulation. And I think I have

02:02:49.420 my answers, but I am definitely going to look at that thing that uncle Semite, uh, told me to, 1.00

02:02:54.640 um and look on uh does it well i don't know is that a good thing or a bad thing maybe you should 0.65

02:03:03.160 join a twitter space and start spurging about it um sometimes i like to spur too that's why

02:03:09.320 we're talking about this you've been holding it the whole time oh my goodness oh are you uncle

02:03:15.920 that's awesome thanks so yeah i i think uh we'll probably revisit this again because i don't think

02:03:21.060 we have all the answers but I'm pretty convinced that we're living in a simulation so until I can

02:03:25.120 see evidence to prove otherwise I'm on board with this and uh yeah I'm gonna call it here but uh

02:03:32.200 have a good Saturday I'm gonna see if there's any UFC on tonight to watch and uh I will talk to you

02:03:38.220 guys on Wednesday I'll be back on Wednesday we'll go about we'll just go over our normal Canadian 0.97

02:03:42.760 everything is fine nonsense because I'm sure there is going to be a lot of shit by then

02:03:46.980 and uh yeah that's it i'll see you guys later thanks guys for dropping by

02:03:51.120 appreciate it see you wednesday 0.98

02:03:53.280 fucking soft mate that's it fucking soft 0.99

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The Simulation Hypothesis

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