Rizwan Virk

And it was just like a weird, you know, like 20 years ago.

It wasn't even like recently because she didn't even live in the UK anymore.

And so this kind of thing happens a lot.

But from a simulation hypothesis perspective, you can think of it as there's an information substrate.

And so there's a term called a technological synchronicity, which is a term that a guy named Jacques Vallée, who, speaking of UFOs, he was involved in UFO research back at Project Blue Book.

And if you've ever watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind,

Maybe 20 years ago.

Yeah.

He was the inspiration for the French scientists.

So Jacques was a French scientist who came to the US, got his PhD in computer science, and then got into this UFO world at the time.

But anyway, he defined this term.

But the idea is that there's an information substrate that organizes things so that what seems like a coincidence is just how we organize information.

And I like to describe it by using an example from online shopping because I used to be in the online advertising business.

And so the other day I was shopping for a backpack online on my laptop on my desk.

And then it was a specific backpack and I was about to buy it.

And I said, let me hold off on buying it.

And then I'm on my phone, you know, outside on Facebook or something.

And I see an ad for that exact backpack.

It's probably not magic, right?

But if I didn't know anything about databases, cookies... Oh, I was going to say, don't tell me you think that this is... Okay, now I got you.