Quinn Slobodian
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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And one of the things Bostrom said was, hey,
If we take for granted that computers have gotten as good as they've gotten up till now and will continue to get better as they go forward, then it's almost inevitable that there will be capacity in some deep future where they could recreate a world so convincing that people wouldn't know they were in a simulated reality.
Furthermore, they might create that engineered simulation so they could do kind of experiments on it to test different theories.
Actually, William Gibson wrote a whole book, The Peripheral, that was sort of based on this premise.
And that there's no way for us as participants in said simulation to disprove that that's actually the position that we're in.
So Musk has said many times over the years that he is almost certain that this is true.
And it's helpful to know that one of the offshoots of Bostrom's argument is that there may be a variation of this where a small number of participants in the simulation will be conscious participants.
you know, full humans and the rest of the people will be so-called shadow people or NPCs.
Yeah, please, please.
Is the fact that Musk, while he's doing Doge, has in his office set up a huge curved Samsung gaming monitor
With he posts an image of himself with a portrait of Pepe the Frog in this gladiatory attire, which is his online avatar, Kekas Maximus, with which he plays two games, Path of Exile 2 and Diablo 4, both of which are dungeon crawling games, which means you just
enter spaces and try to murder your opponents as quickly as possible in a kind of a swirl of activity.
And he was literally toggling between that and then doing Doge.
And the ways that the two were informing each other are extremely strong.
There's a leaderboard for Doge, right?
You were basically trying to take out as many people and as many positions and dollars as possible.
You were trying to move with speed.
You were just completely dehumanizing or non-humanizing the opponents at the other end.
Well, that's where I think it's really interesting to think about how Musk relates to the kind of neoliberal era that we have just emerged from.
Because the magic, and I've spent a lot of time and wrote several other books on this topic of neoliberalism, and the magic of neoliberalism was that it...
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