Roman Yampolskiy

And so it would be beneficial for you to not have all of the past lives and all the genetic information that you have from all the 9,000 years of human beings existing in complete total chaos.

Right.

But then maybe you'd have a difficulty in having a clean slate and moving forward.

Like,

If you look at like some of Pinker's work and some of these other people that have looked at the history of the human race, it is chaotic and violent as it seems to be today.

Statistically speaking, this is the safest time ever to be alive.

And maybe that's because over time we have recognized that these are problems.

And even though we're slow to resolve these issues, we are resolving them in a way that's statistically viable.

But then you wouldn't have any lessons.

You wouldn't have character development.

Yeah, right.

A certain amount of character development is probably important for you to develop discipline and the ability to like...

you know, delayed gratitude, things like that.

Yeah.

Yeah, more data is good.

But why am I so reluctant to accept the idea of the simulation?

This is a real question.

Like, what is it about it that makes me think...

It's almost like it's a throw your hands up in the air moment.

Like, ah, it's a simulation.