MIT scientist: Elon Musk was right, we are almost certainly in a simulation

“and live here and make an impact was a guy named Swami Yogananda. He wrote a book called Autobiography of a Yogi, which was Steve Jobs' favorite book. Favorite book, right? Yeah, they gave it away at his funeral. And he, when he came over 100 years ago in the 1920s, he said, hey, let me try to explain these ancient ideas in ways that modern Americans would understand.”

“And it says, when you die, open, read your book, see what you have done. And in the Bible, there's the book of life, which comes from the Jewish traditions. And the book of life is often presented in a simplistic way of St. Peter decides who gets into heaven or not at the pearly gates.”

“of done with it. And you're like, okay, what should I do next? And it turns out there are whole virtual worlds. Like, I don't know if you ever heard of Second Life, which was kind of a metaverse, which has been out since 2004. Anyway, people would go in and they would just live these virtual lives where they would have like these little jobs.”

“And that's really what Elon was referring to. But the 13th floor was actually based on a novel called Simulacron 3, which was from the 1960s. So you can see this idea has been floating around for quite a while. But what happened was in the early 2000s, philosophers began to take this seriously.”

“Like in Silicon Valley or especially in LA for some reason. Right after I wrote my book, The Simulation Hypothesis, people who had been on DMTs told me, oh, hey, I know we're in a simulation. You know, I said, oh, really? You know, I just wrote a book on it, but I'm not 100% sure.”

“because I'm writing about all these weird things. And in fact, I'm just coming out with a new book, which is a sequel to that first one called The Zen Entrepreneur in the Dream, where I get into even weirder stuff that I was afraid to put in my first book. Like what? Well, just, you know, all kinds of stuff about past lives and how those past lives may have been feeding”

“they seem. And when I wrote my first book, Zen Entrepreneurship, it was kind of about all of these things. I was very worried that people in the venture capital industry, people in Silicon Valley were going to think I was nuts because I'm writing about all these weird things.”