Roman Yampolskiy

But isn't it also a good chance that it hasn't been done yet?

And isn't it a good chance that what we're seeing now is that the potential for this to exist is inevitable, that there will one day if...

If you can develop a technology, and we most certainly will be able to, if you look at where we are right now in 2025 and you scale forward 50, 60 years, there will be one day a virtual simulation of this reality that's indistinguishable from reality.

So how would we know if we're in it?

This is the big question, right?

But also, isn't it possible that it has to be invented one day but hasn't yet?

Yeah.

I feel like if virtual reality does exist, there has to be a moment where it doesn't exist and then it's invented.

Why wouldn't we assume that we're in that moment?

Especially if we look at the scaling forward of technology from MS-DOS to user interfaces of like Apple and then what we're at now with quantum computing and these sort of discussions.

Isn't it more obvious

that we can trace back the beginning of these things and we can see that we're in the process of this, that we're not in a simulation.

We're in the process of eventually creating one.

Right, so if you're playing the game, in the game you have Newton and Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.

Right.

You have Stalin.

You have all these problematic human beings and all the different reasons why we've had to do certain things and initiate world conflicts.

Then you've had the contrarians that talk and say, actually, that's not what happened.

This is what really happened.

And it makes it even more confusing and myopic.