Rizwan Virk
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3,730 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2024
last heard 17 Jun
Rizwan Virk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Of course, there was no table.
It was just me in an empty room, a bunch of wires from the ceiling and what we used to call a toaster on your head.
So there was no mistaking I was in VR.
But the physics engine was so good that it convinced my body just for a moment about that.
And I began to think, how long would it take us
to create virtual worlds that were indistinguishable from physical worlds.
Now, remember, this is before ChatGPT.
This is before generative AI.
But I began to think through the stages of technology we would need to get to to build something like the Matrix.
And then the question becomes, well, if we can build it someday, a civilization that's been around longer than us has already built something like this, probably.
And we could be inside that simulation.
Wow.
If we cannot tell the difference, right?
So there was a guy named Nick Bostrom at Oxford who wrote a paper about this back in 2003.
And he said, look, if a civilization ever builds one of these, they're going to build a million of them or a billion of them because why not?
You just run another server.
And so he said there's only one physical world.
There's a billion worlds.
simulated worlds.
And this was the logic that Elon Musk used actually back in 2016, the same year that I was playing ping pong.
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