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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Wow.
And he goes, at the bottom, the only thing he could find, if you think of those Russian nested dolls, the only thing he could find were a series of properties or answers to yes-no questions.
So he said, those are bits.
Like a bit is a zero or a one.
They have two possible values.
So he came up with this phrase, it from bit.
So if anything looks like an it, like this glass of water or this bottle of water, it actually consists of bits of information.
And so anyway, that's what led me to write the first edition of the simulation hypothesis.
back in 2019, and it was the 20-year anniversary of The Matrix, so I released it on March 31st, 2019.
It was exactly on the day.
And of course, now it's been six years, and AI has progressed.
I was just projecting back then what I thought would happen.
And so last year, Penguin Random House asked me to write a new edition, and that's the edition that is out there now.
Yeah, some people say it's more of a philosophy disguised as a movie, or that it's more of a documentary.
Yeah, and we did a screening of it.
I was in Boston last summer when I launched the new edition of the book at one of the theaters and I gave a little talk about the Matrix and its impact.
It's fun to see people thinking about that a little more seriously.
I think so.
So I think the chances are fairly high.
And in 2019, I said it's at least 50%.
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