MIT scientist: Elon Musk was right, we are almost certainly in a simulation
Sep 28, 2026 · 1h 2m
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0:00All right, Sam is away today, and you know, when the cat's away, the mice will play.
0:03So, I get to indulge in some of my favorite rabbit holes I go down.
0:08I feel like I can rule the world.
0:10I know I could be what I want to.
0:15Our guest today is both an entrepreneur.
0:18You built and sold multiple companies in the video gaming space, which kind of led you down the pathway of trying to think through, are we living in a simulation?
0:27So, let's start there.
0:28What is the theory and then how you kind of stumbled into believing this?
0:32Yeah.
0:32So, simulation theory is the idea that the world that we're living in, the physical world, is not really physical at all.
0:41That in fact, we are inside of some type of virtual reality or a computer program.
0:48I like to say we're inside a massively multiplayer video game.
0:52The most popular pop culture reference, really, is The Matrix.
0:57Neo Kiana Reef starts off at the beginning going to work at a computer software company called Metacortex, and he thinks it's a real world, and he thinks he has a real job.
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