Rizwan Virk

So you've got both of those things going on.

And so depending on how you look at it, you might come to different answers about who's outside the simulation, which would answer the question of who made the simulation, right?

So in the first case, you basically say that if we can get to the point where we can build these simulations, what I call the simulation point.

So I call that a kind of technological singularity.

Now, we've heard the term singularity mostly because of like AI and super intelligent AI, right?

And, you know, AI is going to take over the world.

But the guy who defined the term was actually a computer scientist who became a science fiction writer named Wernher Wenge.

In fact, he just passed away like a month ago or something.

He was a real pioneer in like science fiction and the cyberpunk kind of subgenre or so.

And so he said the singularity happens when technology increases exponentially to the point where everything will be different for humans after that point.

Now, he gave like four different ways we could reach the singularity.

Most of us talk about only one, which is AI starts to become super intelligent and

It grows exponentially and everything will be different.

But I think this idea of the simulation point where we can create simulations that are indistinguishable from reality, and I lay out like 10 stages in my book of all the technology we would need, including brain-computer interfaces like in the Matrix, right?

Or Neuralink, right.

We're getting there, right?

We're at the beginning of that whole thing.

And so that's stage eight, stage seven and stage eight on the way to the simulation point.

And, you know, being able to read, but also then being able to write memories as well.

So, the definition of the simulation point is being able to create a virtual reality that is indistinguishable from physical reality with AI characters that are indistinguishable from biological characters.