Rizwan Virk

that if they reach that point, they would create what he called ancestor simulations or simulations of their ancestors.

And like you said, that could be like us creating a simulation of cavemen or of ancient Rome or ancient Greece, for example.

This is like Westworld kind of, right?

Yeah, similar to Westworld in a way, right?

If you think about it, Westworld is a simulation of our past, right, from the 1800s.

In that case, though, there's the physical robots that we can get into.

In the simulation theory, it's more like a virtual world where you would put on a virtual reality helmet if you wanted to go in there.

But yeah, the AI characters in there are very similar to the ones that you might see in Westworld.

Right.

Yep.

You call it their totem, right?

The totem.

The totem.

Yep, that's exactly right.

So the way that I started to think about this was because I was building video games here in Silicon Valley.

And after I had sold my last video game company, I ended up at a

a video game firm that was located in Marin County.

And they had an office in Sausalito and they were looking out over San Francisco Bay, beautiful landscape, beautiful.

Yeah, I think it's one of the most beautiful cities on a nice day.

But then he said, here, you got to try this.