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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Simulation Hypothesis

The simulation hypothesis has all sorts of implications like that. Sean Cara points out that in this hierarchy of realities, which then develop their own AIs within the realities,. Then they use or really ancestor simulations, I should say, rather than AI, they develop their own capability to simulate realities. And so eventually there'll be a bottom layer, which I often call the sewer of reality, it's like the worst layer where it's the most pixelated it could possibly do.

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