Is the Universe Assimulation?

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"I'm never sure what it means to be living in assimulation," he says. "Can you treat the mind of god as a simulation? And so on, i think people are confusing those two questions rather too quickly." We may be in the dark about whether we're alone in the universe and the future of civilization,. but we're less in the darkabout some predictions you made this time last year.

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On this special year-in-review episode, Tyler and producer Jeff Holmes talk about the past year on the show, including one episode’s appearance on Ancient Aliens, Tyler’s picks for most underrated guests, how his 2021 predictions fared from last year’s retrospective, further reflections on the most downloaded—and most polarizing—episode of the year, how David Deutsch influenced Tyler’s opinions of Karl Popper, why he thinks his interviews with women tend to be better, and more. They also evaluate Tyler’s pop culture picks from 2011, play “Name that Production Function,” and answer listener questions from Twitter.

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