Adam Becker

Okay.

It's fucking bullshit and here's why.

And this is going to take like a sharp left turn.

Okay.

It assumes that that's something that...

It assumes that that's a thing that you can do, which we still don't know that you can do that.

And it also assumes that – and I guess what I'm really talking about here is this argument that we almost definitely live in a simulation, right?

Like there are those people who say, no, no, no, no.

We definitely live in one.

Like almost certainly there's almost no chance that this is like the base reality, whatever that means.

Yeah.

I really think that's wrong because it assumes that technology – it assumes a lot about the future progression of technology.

But it also assumes that technology always progresses through like the same inevitable stages.

It assumes a lot about history and culture and the nature of life and intelligent life and intelligence itself.

And I think that basically all of those assumptions that go into that argument, that fuel that argument are are hopelessly myopic.

They're just like completely blinkered and and narrow minded about like the wide variety of ways that that things in the world can be and that, you know, technology and civilization and culture can be.

Even in this world here and now, like it's a very it's a very Western centric, male centric, white centric, rich centric argument that, you know, basically, yeah, no, the inevitable progression of any intelligent being in any logically possible universe is basically going to be like a rich white dude born between 1970 and 1990.

Yeah.

Like and that's some fucking bullshit.

Yeah, I think two things.