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Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Entanglement of Quantum Degrees of Freedom

A lot of the learning that can be done usually happens in simulation, o artificial examples. I don't see any evidence from what we know about our universe that we look like a simulated universe. It would seem to be a waste of resources to have a universe that big going on just to do with simulation. But then the obvious extrapolation of that is that only i am being simulated fully. The rest of you are just part non player characters, right? I'm the only thing that is real. That's what it would be like to do an efficient simulation of me. None of that seems quite realistic. There's that argument that it's just possible and easy to simulate lots of things

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