Here's your Saturday dose of entertainment (even George says at some point in this presentation it's kind of like art) mixed with provocative (even offensive) ideas. The presentation, kept two weeks ago at SXSW, has 30 minutes full of speculations about humans being run as NPCs (non playing characters) in a bigger simulation, and 30 minutes of Q & A, which, building upon the ideas in the first half an hour, is even more interesting.

Here are a few takeaways:

• being an atheist just because you were raised like this is just as "wrong" as being a religious person just because you were raised as a religious person
• physics might be different in different universes, but, allegedly, there's only one math
• if physics might be different, then there might be an universe in which entropy doesn't increase, hence, there might be a universe in which you can live forever (debatable, IMHO, but interesting as an idea)
• as long as you're just talking about the simulation, the simulators won't be very worried, but if you really get close to breaking the simulation, well, things may turn ugly
• quantum computers might be able to solve untractable problems (or break cryptography which is based on equations solvable in polynomial times) and so they may get us closer to finding an answer and an exit from the simulation - but the energy consumption of those will be far bigger than the usual computer - it would be just like you'd see your AWS bill increasing too much, and you'll know, as a master simulator, that something is going on there.

The only thing that I'm not agreeing with is that, just at the end, George puts meditation - as a "simulation hacking" technique - on the same level with psychedelics, which are obviously not a very good hacking technique. I agree psychedelics are not good, because, if anything, they are enhancing the simulation, whereas meditation, by slowing down the influx of data, gives more and more space and clarity to see the simulation for what really is, and even gets a way out of it.

But hey, George is still young, he still have time to get into this stuff even deeper.

A fascinating one hour, anyway.

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