Adam Becker

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.

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.