Rizwan Virk
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first heard May 2024
last heard 17 Jun
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He said, the chances that we are in base reality, meaning we're not in a simulation, are one in billions, which means the chances we're in a simulation are billions to one.
So that was what kind of pulled me in.
And so I defined this theoretical point that I called a simulation point.
It's like a kind of technological singularity.
Now, when most people hear that term, they think super intelligent AI.
They think Skynet's going to take over the world.
But there are different types of technology singularities.
There was a guy named Wernher Wenge.
He was a sci-fi writer and a computer science professor, and he kind of coined the term in this case.
And then Ray Kurzweil talked about it with transhumanism.
But it really means when technology is growing exponentially and everything will be different.
And so the simulation point is a kind of singularity where we can create virtual worlds that are indistinguishable from physical with AI characters that are indistinguishable from physical beings or beings controlled by avatars in a video game.
And so that was kind of what got me down the road.
And so AI plays a double role, AI characters or NPCs in the game.
So NPC, for those who don't play video games, probably your audience knows what it is, but it's a non-player character, which is one of the AI characters in the game.
And then your character is called an avatar.
And that term, by the way, comes from ancient Sanskrit.
I mean, we're at the Conscious Life Expo today, so there's a lot of spiritual discussions.
Most people don't know this, but an avatar, avatara in Sanskrit, is when a divine entity comes down into Earth and incarnates in a small human body.
And so the guys at Lucasfilm were building one of the first online role-playing games.
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