Rizwan Virk

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"The guy who left — Jacob, was it Coxon, I think was his last name — who left Anthropic, but he was also at OpenAI, talking about how they're about to implement recursive self-improvement and the chances that things are going to go wrong."

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"There was another group that had a thousand agents running in Minecraft, and some of them had their own religion that they came up with and you started to see these emergent behaviors."

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"The most popular pop culture reference really is The Matrix. Neo starts off at the beginning going to work at a computer software company called Meta Cortex and he thinks it's a real world and it turns out the whole thing was an elaborate virtual reality."

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"Today, people are, you know, into psychedelics a lot. DMT, in fact, you know, day doesn't go by where somebody's like, 'You haven't tried DMT yet.' People who had been on DMT told me, 'Oh, hey, I know we're in a simulation. I took DMT and I saw like the grid lines of the simulation.'"

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"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. People would go in and they would just live these virtual lives where they would have like these little jobs."

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"I just watched the trailer for GTA 6, you know, they spent 10 years on this thing and a billion dollars making this incredible game. Can't wait to play it."

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"There was one of the first Indian yogis to come over to the US — Swami Yogananda — he wrote a book called Autobiography of a Yogi, which was Steve Jobs' favorite book. They gave it away at his funeral."

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"If you played any of these space games like Eve Online, there should be more levels."

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"You could investigate past lives through hypnotic regression. You can do what's called shamanic drumming, shamanic journeying."

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"You can do what's called shamanic drumming, shamanic journeying."

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"If you've ever watched Star Trek: The Next Generation, you've got the holodeck, and we're getting some of the stages of the road to the simulation point — can we build something that's so immersive that we would forget that we weren't in a real world?"