Neil deGrasse Tyson

You're a professor at University of Oxford in the Future of Humanity Institute.

Oh, that doesn't look very bright.

So you think about artificial intelligence, the ethics of artificial intelligence, biosecurity, macro strategy.

We'll ask you what that is in a moment.

Just policy, ethics.

Foundational questions about serious challenges that civilization faces, not in the distant future, but in the very near future.

I like the fact that you have a background in theoretical physics.

So put you in the physics club here.

That's good.

Also computational neuroscience.

We have some of those at my home institution at the American Museum of Natural History.

That's quite the frontier as well.

And you had a rather influential paper, research paper, titled, Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?

And for me also, I remembered your book, Superintelligence, which all of these got people thinking, as any good philosopher should do, is to get people thinking.

And so could you just start us off

Why do you think we might be living in a simulation?

So we want to hear your line of reasoning, which ought to be good given your sort of logical background in this universe.

So let's hear what you've got.

Why can't there be a fourth other truth that no one gives a rat's ass about simulating anything anywhere?

Okay, so I have publicly, mildly butchered your line of argument there.