Adam Becker

First of all, you shouldn't do that.

Second, even if this is a simulation, the suffering is real.

Yes.

I am suffering.

Yeah.

You are suffering.

True, true.

We got to fix that shit.

I mean...

yeah i mean i guess it depends on what you mean by real but for any like good meaning of that word sure we're real yeah i mean uh uh say that say that it is a simulation say that everything i said was wrong say that there's some other universe with other laws of physics and other beings and for whatever reason they decided to build this simulation like to build a computer and inside that computer like there's a simulation going on and we're in there

we're real we're in that simulator we're really in that simulation in that scenario like there are there are real entities in that simulation that are you and me and all the things around us even if that's not how the programmers think about it like i am having experiences here in this simulation and i have a hand over here and i'm waving it around and i'm banging it on the edge of the sofa like that's all happening

Does the actual structure of the world at its most fundamental level look anything like the way we think it looks?

Probably not.

Whether or not we're in a simulation, I think that's wrong.

OK.

OK, so so here's the thing.

I think everyone I hope everyone can agree that temperature is a real thing.

Like things have temperatures.

You know, I can I can take my my cool, nerdy infrared thermometer and point it at the wall and it will tell me that the wall is seventy four point six degrees Fahrenheit because we live in a country that doesn't know how to measure temperature.

But the thing is temperature, according to our best understanding of temperature in physics, it comes out of thermodynamics, which is itself something that comes out of statistical physics, a really, really interesting field of physics.