Red Pill This!: The Simulation Proposal

EPSIODE 56 | Red Pill This!: The Simulation Proposal

Mainly inspired by a 1999 movie, many people suspect we may be living in a computer simulation of some sort. If we are, how can we tell? Maybe by looking at some ideas from physics, which has some truly unusual ideas as to the nature of things. The universe might be made of tiny vibrating strings, or physicalized information. It might be a hologram, or a big brain, or an artifact of statistics. All these ideas seem to point to an underlying code of some kind. Or maybe everything we think we know was just created last Thursday.

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SECTIONS

1. 02:10 - I Can Only Show You the Door - The Matrix, PKD, red pills, metaphor, human batteries
2. 10:15 - The Simulation Scenario (Not Hypothesis, Not Theory) - Nick Bostrom, Kurtzweil, deGrasse Tyson, Musk, virtual contingency plans, OpenAI, NVIDIA's E2 & the Omniverse
3. 19:09 - Blinded with Science - The Holographic Principle, the UFT (and GUT & TOE), string theory
4. 22:37 - Vepson, Landauer's Principle, dark matter & energy, MACHOs & WIMPs, it from bit
5. 25:47 - Biocentrism, quantum weirdness
6. 27:11 - Braaaiins! - Hong Qin's algorithm & discrete field theory, universe as brain or neural network; Quantum Gravity Research, self-simulation, the pan-consciousness
7. 33:44 - The Department of Redundancy Department - Reality as statistical average, glitches in the matrix, coincidence & deja vu
8. 39:48 - Dear God, Sorry to Disturb You But... - Lack of proof, Last Thursdayism, the Omphalos Hypothesis, Christian reactions, the Matrix Defense, simulation as religion, the Global Architect Institute
9. 48:09 - The Clock is TikToking - Gen Z rediscovers the idea, Rivka Weinberg & ultimate meaning, the road ahead

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

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More Info:

• Why the Matrix Matters to Trans Fans on NPR
• The Matrix Spawned the Simulation Theory
• 'Matrix'-style bracelets turn humans into batteries
• Summary of Bostrom's 2003 paper
• The Simulation Argument
• Is Our Universe a Fake?
• Whoa, Dude, Are We Inside a Computer Right Now?
• Are we living in a computer simulation? I don’t know. Probably.
• Do we live in a simulation? on Space.com
• Living in the Matrix
• Simulation interview series on Closer to Truth
• What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? in the New Yorker
• Neil deGrasse Tyson says it’s ‘very likely’ the universe is a simulation
• 50% Chance We're Living in a Simulation in Popular Mechanics
• Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50 in Scientific American
• Elon Musk Thinks There's A "One In Billions" Chance We Don't Live In A Computer Simulation
• Elon Musk And Friends Are Spending Millions To Break Out Of The Matrix
• On Testing the Simulation Theory paper
• THE MEN WHO ARE CONVINCED WE’RE ALL LIVING IN A SIMULATION
• Our universe is one massive HOLOGRAM and our entire existence is an ILLUSION, scientists claim
• Quantum Paradox Suggests the Fabric of Our Reality Is Inconstant
• If the universe is a giant computer simulation, here's how many bits would be required to run it
• Dark Matter on CERN
• The Basis of the Universe May not Be Energy or Matter but Information
• There is no dark matter. Instead, information has mass, physicist says
• Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute
• The universe works like a huge human brain, discover scientists
• The entire universe is a neural network
• It from Bit - What did John Archibald Wheeler get right and wrong?
• Physicist creates AI algorithm that may prove reality is a simulation
• New hypothesis argues the universe simulates itself into existence
• Is human consciousness creating reality?
• The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself
• The Universe as a Statistical Approximation
• John Bartlett on Why We Do Not Live in a Simulated Universe
• The simulation argument: Does it reflect a frustration in physics?
• The Church of Last Thursday
• Friend, Have You Heard the Good News About the Simulation Hypothesis?
• He Thought He Was Living in ‘The Matrix’—and Killed His Parents
• Bad religion, bad media combine in new doc "A Glitch in the Matrix"
• Simulation Theory: How is ‘Religion’ Part of It?
• Religion and the Simulation Hypothesis: Is God an AI (Part I)?
• The simulation hypothesis and the ultimate religion
• The Global Architect Institute
• Simulation Creationism
• Heidi Wong TikTok video
• Ultimate Meaning: We Don’t Have It, We Can’t Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad

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