Rizwan Virk

Instead of looking at things like conservation of energy and conservation of momentum, you're looking at conservation of information.

Does information get created or get destroyed?

And some have even said that the world itself is basically a quantum computer, if you think about it.

And so that would be in, you know, whatever computational substrate is being used to run the simulation would have to be a lot more advanced than what we think of as computers today.

That said, to your earlier point, when you play a video game, your avatar doesn't have to look exactly like you.

In fact, when we play a video game, oftentimes we'll choose a race like an elf or a dwarf or a human, and then we'll choose a profession like a wizard.

or a thief, etc.

And so in The Matrix, they wanted to use the same actors, obviously, right?

They want to use Keanu Reeves inside and outside the simulation.

So their avatars were what I call identimorphic.

They look just like the player.

But in reality, even if this were a multiplayer video game or an NPC simulation, it's hard to say what the world outside of the simulation might look like and what we might look like.

Yep, and they share cat videos.

It's very possible.

And so the term you mentioned, ancestor simulation, is an important one within the simulation world.

And it was defined by an Oxford philosopher named Nick Bostrom.

And what he basically said was that if a civilization got much more advanced than we are today...

And he wrote this paper back in like 2003.

So it was a couple of years after The Matrix, but really before today's AI, chat GPT, LLMs, all this stuff.

But he basically said that if a civilization ever gets to the point where they are post-human, or what I call the simulation point, where they can create a fully immersive virtual reality with AI characters that are indistinguishable from physical characters...