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Rizwan Virk

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

It's just too many particles.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

But then they came up with this idea of 3D modeling and rendering.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

And you've got things like what's obfuscated, don't bother.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

Even if it's behind this curtain, we don't need to necessarily render it.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

So computer science is often about optimization.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

And there's something called lazy evaluation in programming.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

And lazy evaluation means you don't evaluate, you don't actually run the code unless you need to.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

So if you say x equals 2 to the 1 million power, but then you never use that variable x, that computation might take a long time to do.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

I mean, it's not that hard for a computer to do, but you can think of a more complex computation.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

But if it's never used, it'll just wait around until somebody needs x, and then it'll go and it'll compute it.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

Now, in this case, because you've been living here, it's probably cached, so it's already there.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

Yeah, right, okay.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

Because that's the thing you might look at next, whereas you're not going to go to Mogadishu immediately.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

You'd have to get on a plane.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

Exactly.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

I mean, it's like saying, can you run chat GPT on a 286 or a Pentium processor?

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

No, you need the GPUs from NVIDIA.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

But more than that, you need the LLM.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

training and the algorithms, which couldn't have been done.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

And that's where it gets even a little bit stranger, okay?