Nearly half of the U.S. population believes in conspiracy theories, with many psychologists arguing that these theories are unlikely to derail the profound impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on society. A new study published in Science, “Durably Reducing Conspiracy Beliefs Through Dialogues With AI”, shows that large language models can help reduce conspiracy beliefs. The research involved nearly 2,200 American participants who were asked to engage in dialogue with an AI chatbot to decrease their existing beliefs in unfounded conspiracy theories. On average, the AI conversations reduced the average participant’s belief in their chosen conspiracy theory by about 20 and about one in four participants—all of whom believed in conspiracy theories.
The study also highlighted the potential for AI to be a valuable tool in countering conspiracy theories. Researchers used ChatGPT to produce convincing text that repeated conspiracy theories and misleading narratives. The explosion of generative AI into the public sphere has raised concerns about people believing in things that aren’t true. Roko’s basilisk is a thought experiment that suggests that an otherwise benevolent AI in the future would be incentivized to spread false information.
Fake news, conspiracy theories, and manipulated reporting have been present since the beginning of time, but in today’s digital world, especially on social media, true Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has not yet been created. The time to counter conspiracy theories about AI is now.
📹 We Live in a Simulation. The evidence is everywhere. All you have to do is look
PROOF THAT EVERYTHING – IS A SIMULATION (Including God) Is this reality? Well, we’re experiencing … something right now …
📹 “Nothing You See is Real” | Donald Hoffman
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Holy Smokes, AJ. This episode is truly outstanding. I’ve been familiar with several aspects of the Simulation Theory for several years now, but you’ve helped me get a better understanding of the ones I already knew, on top of presenting new, ridiculously complex ones in a digestible way. I cannot emphasize enough how appreciative I am of you (and Hecklefish of course) for your articles. Your entire creative process from beginning to end is among the best I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing. I truly am thankful I randomly stumbled upon your website several months ago. You’ve since become my favorite content creator and you set the bar higher & higher with each article. Please never stop ! We’ll eventually crush the algorithm gods and get you to the top, where you belong. Thank you again!
It is a simulation. Not being run from a computer though. When my grandad died, for the last 2 days he had one foot in this reality and his other foot in the next one. He used to lift his hands up to the sky and say ‘wow’! Before he died he told my grandmother that this was all an illusion, and that he was going home. This experience made me believe that this reality is a tour of duty: we volunteer to come here and have these terrestrial experiences, here in this dense-matter, linear time reality. Then we end our tour and go home.
When my mom passed she was at my home visiting. I woke up suddenly and it felt seem like I levitated straight out of bed. I started running to the room she was staying in. The entire time building up immense tears and saying, “no, no, no, no” over and over. When I entered the room she had already passed. My mom was only 53 yrs old at the time. Looking back I had to have felt her presence and she woke me up to say goodbye or let me know she was gone. I can’t explain how else I could’ve known she that was gone. Saddest day of my life.
This was an awesome episode! I am a devout Christian who believes God,our Creator, has done a brilliant job with creation. Exploring the possibilities surrounding simulation feels like a natural progression in understanding God more. Thank you for offering a safe space where we can ponder and discuss such topics. 🙂
I studied chemistry and physics and have a doctorate in physics. Most of my friends in the program believed in the simulation theory BECAUSE of the “if observed” loophole. How does a particle know it is being observed through time? It can’t, unless the program tells it to. There is no physical mechanism or law that covers this exception. My advice? Enjoy your time here and be kind to everyone. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Be positive, and maybe positive things will happen to you. Our time here is short. We will never know all the secrets, but it is fun to speculate.
I had a dream once of going into class in middle school and a guy that liked me came up to me to ask me out and I said no, everyone laughed at him. The next day I came into class and the guy was wearing the exact same thing as in my dream. He came up to me and I started to say, “please don’t ask…” but he cut me off and said “I won’t, I know they’re gonna laugh at me”. Then he told me he was having serious déjà vu because he had a dream the night before this exact same thing happening and when it started to play out, he already knew what was going to happen. I told him I had the exact same dream. It was so weird and so creepy, but I’ll always remember that moment and that feeling.
I lost my grandmother n mother in the same yr .😢i was taking care of my mom while she battled cancer for the 3rd time ..i was home sleep with my bm n son when her spirit woke me from my sleep to say goodbye 😭 not even minutes later my aunt called me to rush to hospital down the street n say goodbye but it was to late… Either way i noticed even thou i wasnt next to her during those last few hrs bkuz our family was rotating shifts,i felt her soul reaching out to her baby…fast forward into the future my Dad n cousin got lost at sea and his spirit visted me as well,even thou this wasnt as peaceful n the circumstances til this day affects me especially knowing i was going to go with them on that trip,had i not have an expired passport,idk just my testimony n experiences thought i should share amen,Thank God Praise the Lord🙏🏾💯🕊️
One of the things that tickles my brain the most about the idea that this reality is a simulation is the idea that whoever the “programmer” is, whoever is perusal, is perusal us come to this slow realization. I always wonder if within this simulation, their goal was to see how long it would take us to realize it for certain. Or maybe despite their best efforts, we came far enough to “crack” their code. It’s all brain candy though. Fun to think about but in the long run, nothing changes for us. We are still held to the rules of this reality, regardless of who or what made it. We still must watch after our health, participate in society, do our work and attain currency. I’ve always had some hope that a realization of reality as it truly is might be rewarded in some way, but something tells me that even if we’re dead on, no one is going to tell us jack.
When I was still a child, 6, 7, maybe 8… I was wondering if my room, my toys, the house I was living in… was still existing while I was away. I was wondering if the food in the fridge was still existing when the door was shut. I remember being yelled at to stop opening the so many times and as fast as I could to look at the inside of the fridge… 😅
I had Dejavu one time, with my brother and another man that passed us in a Dillard’s in Florida. You could tell the guy that walked by was having it as well, from the look on his face. Once we passed, my brother looked at me and said, “Man, that was strange. I just had Dejavu and could tell that guy that walked by was having it too.”….well, so was I. And I could tell that guy was also……super strange.
2001 Rio de Janeiro a man came in the gym with fine clothes, changed to sportwear and asked to workout with me. His name was Henrique, he was tall blond extremely handsome, intelligent and well mannered. I asked if he was foreigner he said no, and I live in your street (backstreet). So we workout some 6 months and everytime after the gym he acompanied me untill my home, a halfmile elevation and he never entered his home, actually a backhouse, a squared wooden shack between the first two properties. Just once we got the same bus. He had to run to get in. But then he wasnt coming to the gym anymore and when I went to his house after him (he said he lived there with his wife) his house didnt exist anymore! That man was real and the best friend I ever had. I put my life on this words
Each article has impressed me with the research that it takes to create it. However, this one has completely blown my mind! AJ idk if you do all of this by yourself or you have a team that assists. But you really outdid yourself and this proves just how incredibly brilliant you are. Because this is not an easy subject to cover nor is it easy to create and explain such a complex matter in terms/ ways that the average person can follow along and understand! PLEASE don’t ever stop being such a good and kind human. We all know most of what you cover are conspiracies that are proven false BUT the content you create allows us to escape from reality for a bit and makes us think on a different level! THANK. YOU. for your dedication to creating this content and for listening to your followers and choosing topics we have suggested. By doing so it proves how much you love and care about your followers/ supporters!!
Have you ever met someone, a complete stranger. And you could swear that you already met them. Know them. Met someone you like immediately ? Met someone that scares the crap out of you, but you can’t figure out why ? I’m not taking in a prejudice way. Just in an odd way. In my 69 yrs. I have experienced these feelings at times. Enjoyed your posts. ❤😊
The double slit experiment reminds me of a situation where animals in the wild were exposed to a mirror. When they observed their reflections some became confused as they did not understand that they were looking at themselves, even though they could control the reflective image through their own behavior. Perhaps the “Observer Effect” is like that. We can control the outcome of the double split experiment through our own behavior, but we’re confused because we don’t understand how we can be the mechanism that creates it. Some of the animals in the wild never understood that they were looking at themselves, but some did. I’m pretty sure that they didn’t understand how the mirror worked, but they did recognize their own image. I think that’s where we are. We recognize and accept that the Observer Effect is real, but we just don’t understand in this case it’s more than a mere reflection of some sort. Observation can actually collapse energy into matter.
Wow, this is manipulative (even without the spooky music). The amount of speculation, a huge number of assumptions, and selection bias when making your points is crazy and incredibly unscientific. While it’s very possible we’re in a simulation, there’s literally no solid scientific evidence of it. Harvard physicist Lisa Randall has argued that the odds of the simulation hypothesis being correct are effectively zero, emphasizing that there is no evidence to suggest that our universe is anything other than what it appears to be
My mother had cancer and when she died, I was asleep in another house, my mother woke me up to say goodbye, there were no words! just the feeling of the words! It’s hard to explain! I lay there in bed knowing it was real somehow, but was still confused. Then a few minutes later my dad came in to tell me my mother had passed! It was SOOO weird and I still can’t work it out! It’s changed how I view life and the afterlife. I’m not sure what I had experienced but I know it’s something!!!
One thing I find fascinating is how dreams are also sort of like simulations, and for many of us, they are alternate realities. Sometimes I have dreams that seem to repeat. It’s like I know I’ve had that dream before, even though that dream is different from my assumed reality. Dreams also seem to be rendered like a article game. Sometimes they lack details and things are created as you think of them. At least that’s how mine seem work. I have experienced dreams where I’ve had conversations that feels like I’m conversing with another mind. Questions were posed. Answers were presented. Fascinating article!
I had a dog who died suddenly and unexpectedly from kidney failure. I was really sad and missed her but moved on as you do but always felt bad I had left her at the vets for tests not knowing she would die there. One night months later I saw her in a dream with light streaming from her, looking wildly happy and telepathically told me my sadness had held her near me but now she was leaving so there was no point to my being sad any more. I could see forests behind her and I really felt that was her wolf spirit that came through. That was 40 years ago and i can still see her glowing in that dream like a laser beam. So strange
I lost my beloved chihuahua of 13 years, and before the vet put him down I asked my dog to please visit me in my dreams. His lil tongue flicked my face one last time, and yet two days later I had a dream like no other. I was sitting in a chair in a space with no walls and only an unseen light shining down on me. After looking up at the light, I looked down and there he was(only, without the golf ball sized mast tumor on his side)! It was beautiful, and brief, and I didn’t care if it was real or not, but God- or whom ever runs the program- truly has a heart! That’s enough to keep me believing in a higher power. Just thought I’d share that.
Deja vu always fascinates me because I used to have epileptic seizures as a kid and deja vu was the trigger for me. If I was sat or stood still, I would have a seizure. But if I was on the move, I could do something different and stop myself from having a seizure. I grew out of it when I was 16 though
Alhamdulillah, As God said in Quran 1446 years old, “Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? and We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?” 21:30 – if science believes that we live in a simulation then it confirms our believe that there’s a One intelligent being who’s controlling the universe, whom we call God, who’s the creator of time and laws of the universes, since we can only think in “time” and we can’t think beyond the time thats why we can’t come up with the explanation of what was before big bang, and because time is also a creation of God, so it doesn’t affect Him, everything happens because of time, if time stop affecting on us, we will never feel hungry, we will never get tired, we will feel sleepy, we will never get old nor will we die, that’s why God is everlasting, that’s why He’s self-sufficient, because the laws of the universe simply doesn’t apply on Him because Hes the creator of them, they weren’t existed before Him. I hope you understand my point.
As much as you hate the evil YouTube algorithm, it suggested this article to me right before the new year, and I’ll tell you what, I went back and started from the beginning of your website to watch every episode one after the other until I got here again. I don’t think I’ve ever binged a YouTube website like this, EVER. you’re doing something special here AJ. Thank you. Back to my binging now.
I nearly died once and was unresponsive for 5 or so hours, for weeks after I would get Deja Vu constantly and when I would drive past the hospital, no matter what time of day or day of the week I’d see the same person oposite the hospital on the otherside of the road, in the same spot, walking in the same direction, in the same clothes for weeks.
AJ, this topic always freaks me out but at the same time it gives me a sense of relief. If none of this is “real” but rather perceived, maybe we don’t need to take ourselves and everyone/thing around us so seriously. Ugh. Your articles always make me think. Thank you for putting in the hard work as always. Can’t wait for the next one.
I’ve been waiting for another full episode! They are SOOOO good… thank you for sticking with it, I can only imagine how hard it is for you to make just ONE of these episodes…. Tons of research goes into it, the writing/script if you use one, and if you don’t it’s probably even harder because you have to TRULY understand the subject if you can just talk to the camera like you do…. So good… please don’t give up, and keep them coming! Can you do more conspiracy theories? More old history scrolls, or even maybe some cryptic creature episodes like Bigfoot, the moth man, yetis, mermaids… etc it’s insane how many different cultures have these old stories about these creatures. It’s like if one culture or group of people said something it’s like eh I doubt it… but almost EVERY culture talks about some crazy creatures. That would be a cool episode
I’ve had a lot of strange deja-vu experiences & some dreams that I swear feel like an alternate version of myself complete with a new set of friends & life, then I wake up & sometimes can’t tell which reality I’m in. I even recall little details, like when I’m “dreaming” I look at a clock & it reads 5PM, then I’ll wake up a few moments later to see it’s actually 4 hours ahead, but then I’ll fall back asleep, I look at a clock again & it reads 5:30pm. Fucking weird. And I know I’m not the only one that’s felt this.
When i was 10 years old, a childhood friend called me to hang out at the park. When we met, he wasn’t himself and seemed like another person. He ran around shouting at people, threw their stuff, kicked a soccer ball into the river etc. The next day, i called him and asked what was up with him yesterday, and he said i was crazy cus he did not meet me and was at home. We’re still close friends now and he doesn’t remember meeting me.
When I hear the argument that “It would take too much energy” (or something similar) as a reason we can’t be living in a simulation, I often wonder if maybe power isn’t as difficult to harness for the beings that might have made the simulation. Making power harder to harness is another good way to limit or slow down a simulation.
So does this explain these synchronicities I constantly experience? I can be in the middle of saying a word, and then whatever I’m perusal, it says the same word on the television. Or whatever I just finished talking about, the subject or word pops up in a movie or show I’m perusal…and this is continuous, not just sometimes.
The difference between god and simulation theory is in the implied narrative structure. People need religion because they need answers. Religion provides sufficient answers to questions that gnaw at our minds. On the other hand, simulation theory begets more questions than it answers, and that is exactly why it appeals to the scientific and repels the religious.
Fruit of the Loom definitely had a cornucopia. Also I remember reading in a sports book a long time ago that the first ever World Series was won by the Boston Pilgrims. Other people swear it was the Boston Americans. There is even an article by Bill Knowles titled “The Boston Pilgrims Never Existed.” When I went back in my mid 20s to look at the book I had looked at 500 times, it said the 1903 World Series was won by the Boston Somersets. Bizarre.
Watching these articles make me realise that all the time I’ve spent overthinking might not be for naught. I did think about themis simulation stuff. Like when we die here, we wake up there and are like, fk i messed up. We might just be the gods we so love to pray to and after gettig bored, we wanted more experiences and decided to try living as weak mortal beings in a corrupted society. Here we will get all the thrills not available in the other world… That’s one of the reasons we all talked about how life is an adventure, and we are all travellers here. Deja vue is the only thing most if not all individuals have experienced at point. Many talk about reborn. But reborn in itself would just be me choosing to play again. New character, lifestyle…. We have always want to live differently. Ex: think how life as a rich lil b@stard, a superstar, a great singer, a great footballer would be. We want to play as different characters in article games… So this theory shouldn’t prove too far fetched.. Our likes, dislikes or feelings stem from our real self or as they call it the soul. That might explain why we always perceived ourselves as the body and the soul. Many religion call the physical body as only an envelope for the soul. All these to show that we do realise that this physical body is not our real self. We are much more than what we see, hear or believe. 7 Thank you for uploading such articles. Your articles should be a TV show. This would help many individuals to start thinking outside the box.
Trip this out ladies and gents…. I died once, doc said for 1min 30 seconds….during that time, I remember being in what felt like a room…but it wasn’t. There was no specific shape around me and everything was black. I felt like a was standing on the floor, but there was no floor…looking up I saw what looked like a screen…scary to say but the shape of a computer screen. I felt it was extremely far away, I began to reach……then I woke up….freaked cuz I had a tube down my throat. Tried to take it out. They had to sedate me, I woke the next day and doc told me I was gone for over a minute and he found ghb in my system. Still don’t know how it got there to this day.
The Fruit of the Loom with the cornucopia is the way I remember them. Most of my underwear in the 60 and 70s were Fruit of the Loom, and that’s the only emblem I can remember. I even asked my brother, who had never heard of the Mandela effect, he also remembers the basket very vividly! After hearing this on your article, I looked at the actual emblem, and it appears unfamiliar with me and my brother. The other stuff I never had much to do with.
I once had the same dream for a month or two straight. It was about a guy breaking into my house trying to steal stuff. Sometimes, I i would get shot, and sometimes, i would shoot the guy, sometimes, i would shoot my friend, and he was holding at gunpoint, trying to save him, etc. Well low and behold, on my friends 21st birthday we got a knock at the doorz thinking it was a friend, he opened it without looking. It was the guy from my dreams. He grabbed my friend at gunpoint saying give me all your computers, money, etc. I went into my room, grabbed my shotgun, cocked it, and went to confront the guy. I knew not to shoot because my friend would still be in front of him, i then retreated because i knew i was going to get shot. He fired three shots at me, missed all three times, and ran out the door. Honestly, it felt like a well rehearsed dance due to the dreams i had. Without them, i think I’d be dead
When I was a kid I opened a book and the pages was empty. My mother came from around the corner I told her what was wrong. She told me go to bed, and I did listen. Next morning I ran to the book and everything was normal. My mother has no recollection of this incident and it wasn’t a dream. Probably wasn’t really her but someone that would ease my mind. The Brain pushes out useless info and i remember like it was yesterday 32 years later. Just wanted to share with everyone in case you ever kept things to yourself because of what people may think.
Sometimes, I have dreams that feels like a different life than the one I am living at the moment. It feels real but at the same time if feels like a life a little bit different… It’s very familiar. It feels like I was there and I experienced it myself. And I can still remember it long after I dreamed about it. I don’t know what’s going on.
She had braces! I was 9 years old my father took me to see Moonraker and I had braces. Kids in school made fun of me called me all kinds of names. My father pointed out that Jaws saved her life becasue he had metal in his mouth as she had metal in her mouth…otherwise the scene doesn’t make sense if she doesn’t have braces
I’d also add that yes the energy required to simulate our reality would take as much as out universe has in it But all the energy in our reality could be but a spec of what’s available in the true reality. We could be polygons in a PS1 game debating the limits of our world while PS5 games exist beyond our vision.
Hey AJ! So I have to tell this story as it is quite relevant to this article. When I was in middle school, my friends and I wrote a song for a peanut butter company. We were hoping they would use it as a jingle in one of their ads. It went like this, “Jiffy peanut butter; it’s the best. Better than Skippy and all of the rest and so we sing, peanut peanut butter; not Skippy. Peanut peanut butter; just Jiffy.” We laughed and hung up the phone. It was a really exciting thing for us at that age, and I will never forget it. I am convinced that Jiff was indeed Jiffy.
I actually became interested in this theory after my father told me about one of his experience…. He visited a state of India for his work and it was his first time travelling there, on there 2nd last day they were visiting one of the famous temples. They hired a priest as there guide for probably 2 hours. And when the priest was about to take them to another place in the temple….suddenly my father started feeling that he came here before, without anyone’s guide he climbed up one of the staircases and suddenly pointed finger in the front saying there should be a wooden swing there…..and suddenly he asked a question “is this the place where one of the tiger incidents happened? “…..That priest was literally shocked since it happened 50 years ago and only locals of that area knew about it ……then the priest asked him that if he had visited this place before. And then the next second my father forgot what he was going to say next and was literally shocked….other people who were with him..( his assistant, the driver and one of his interns) were shocked too!! At first I thought maybe he is just making stuff up….because he is a really good story teller but then a few months later that intern came to my father with box of sweets since finally his internship was completed and he could now practice law. They were talking then that intern mentioned that incident and they started talking casually about it. At that time l knew that my father was telling the truth! I also get thoughts that maybe he just remembered about his past life for a split second.
I dreamed about a huge Psychedelic mushroom. The next morning I told my Sister-In-Law about my dream. That day we took a car ride to Grants Pass, OR from Brookings, OR. We stopped for a rest by the side of the road by the Chetco River. There was the big Psychedelic mushroom in the ground. We just looked at each other in amazement. I think it was just a coincidence, but pain is real. I do not believe we are a simulation.
We (referring to us within this human body, long story) conducted a little experiment of our own recently: we were visiting some so called “family cousins” which we actually disassociate with altogether, but that’s a side story, we went with them to people they claimed to be other cousins, any way, those other cousins were in a group with 2 dogs. Those dogs liked to fetch sticks, one dog was more grown, one less. The less grown dog liked a smaller stick, but the more grown dog sometimes liked to play with the less grown dog’s stick of choice despite having its preference for challenging its bite hold with a bigger stick. So, without further ado, we decided to test if they had access to intuition. We at first threw the stick in a direction we could see either directly or peripherally. Either dog could notice where it landed and fetch it. Then we went further: we pretended to throw the stick in a direction we could see, but instead, we threw it in a direction out of our own sight but felt with our sense of body motion the approximate direction and intuitively we could roughly estimate its location and it was visible. What we saw was the dogs utterly confounded at first, we asked them where it was, they were really confounded. We walked up to the stick, they were still confounded, sometimes the stick was right under their noses and eyes literally and they STILL didn’t notice it until we not only pointed at it but also SAID it was there! Only then the dogs started to notice it! We at first started to teach the less grown dog about this.
Around 50 years ago, as a young child I used to have a recurring dream where only what was visible to me existed. It was like wearing VR glasses where only what was in front of me was real and if I looked away, everything ceased to exist until I looked at it again. The theory at 14:24 articulates those dreams in ways I could never explain.
Also, when I first watched this, it made me curious, so I looked up other articles on simulation theory. Turns out I had started with the best one – yours! The information is presented in a logical order with simple examples, your narration is concise and easy to follow. So I came back to listen to this one again. 👍
Many years ago, I had a dream where I lost my family (not my real one) in a tornado within a blizzard. The dream took place around an old-farmhouse with dirt roads. I was there with them, as we were swept up. I felt the heartbreak of a parent losing their children (I have no kids), the terror, the bite of the frost. I still remember it to this day and I don’t think I will ever forget it. It’s almost as if it actually happened on some level.
Amazing breakdown. As long as I can remember I have felt that god and simulation are indistinguishable and cannot understand why more people don’t see this. I feel we just lack the language and knowledge to describe the universe and perceive division when really we all struggle to describe the same thing.
I’m 62 at this writing and I’ve been wondering about this since I was around 6. Even now, when driving through the countryside and seeing a person I’ve never seen before, and will likely never see again, I wonder if they still exist once they are out of sight. I can only experience my point of view. Perhaps everything I experience is just a background programmed for my entertainment, or I’m being tested?
It isn’t a computer simulation. People just call it that because we are obsessed with computers right now. There are different dimensions, or planes of existence. Physical reality is different from objective reality, the place we come from when we are born, and the place we go back to when we die. We incarnate here in the physical realm from the spirit realm, or energetic realm. This is a real place. We are really here. But it’s a temporary visit. Our true selves live eternally in the energetic realm. We come here to learn and grow.
Shri Krishna said in the Gita that the world is Maya (illusion). Our soul is part of the supreme being and keeps coming back into this world to go through different experiences in the form of human lives. Its all a learning experience for the soul. We try to explain this concept through science instead of religion and the closest explanation probably is a computer simulation. If we didn’t have computers, some other explanation would have come around. The Ramayan mentions parallel dimensions and mahabharat mentions time dilation and different realms. Our science today can understand these concepts but we have a long way to go to understand it in depth.
When I was a kid I was told that if aliens looked at our planet they would see dinosaurs, does that mean that even if we look at stars and planets we see the past? That could mean there are civilisations very far away, the light we receive just havent reached them or us yet. Probably if we would want to visit a specific planet, it could be real that the civilisation would actually be there but we just cant know this because of the speed of light.
Hello WF, Hecklefish .. I’ll tell you my sons account of.. something strange.. My Son came running to my room when he told me, “Narla just walked through the wall mum!”.. i chuckled told him its cultural. we’re Indigenous. Anway my Son was 16 at the time, his little sisters were, 1 & 3. Tys room was inside the back room, it had a wall, with windows, the space outside his room was a hallway led to the bathroom. Anway.. Ty was teaching the girls hide and seek, then ..swears..he caught Narla in his room, he thought narla went to hide behind his desk that was against the wall that divides his room from the hall. But next minute, Narla came running around the corner, from the hallway past Ty as he was saying “busted!!” saying .. Narla just ran through the wall!?..
The funny thing is if we live in a simulation it still doesn’t explain everything. Our creators are probably humans but from the future. But who created them? How did their world start? I think people like to think that we live in a simulation because it removes some of their stress and responsibility for their actions. But there is no difference between reality and simulation, your actions still have consequences.
Have you thought about doing the hypogeum in Malta? There’s so much interesting stuff there. The skulls, the missing class of students, the way it was found in modern times, the fact that it’s a UNESCO site due to the monoliths, and….. There are rocks that ring like bells if you thump them. Hope you read this comment!
you guys blow my mind!!! The amount of research you & Hecklefish must have to do for each & every article must be so time consuming. Thank you for your commitment to delivering the facts (or fiction!) with just the right amount of humour. You guys are my absolute favourite! Sending hugs from the UK x x x
I worked in simulation programming for over 20 years, from 1980 to 2000. You are spot on in your description of how it works. But you have brought up other aspects that I have not thought of, like the explanation of Quantum Physics as it applies to these simulators. I have to rewatch this a few more times. brilliant presentation..
dejavu is something I can say, I can really agree upon… because for how many times, I experienced it myself. The kind of feeling that you have when you realize in those certain moments where you knew already happened before.. exact scene, the same place, the same conversations, the same people.. but you just can’t recall when.
I must tell my side of the story with vigor and with the utmost confidence. I remember the Moonraker James Bond scene. This was an exceptionally special movie for me. Why, because my mom took me to this movie when I was a young man, and I loved it. So much so that it became one of my favorite films for life. I recall the ending where the girl at the end had braces 100% no lie. That’s what made the entire scene. That they were both alike. Now, I’m being told that this wasn’t true. That this scene is different? Some of the other events are a bit vague to me, but not this one. No way! I can’t believe it at all! I’ve seen this movie more than a few times.
As a child i could often sense beforehand exactly what was going to happen. With absolute certainty. As if there were time holes. One of those occasion was when i saw my little toddler sister carrying a metal tin. I stood frozen with horror knowing exactly what was going to happen. But unable to verbalize it. And amazed that my parents who were there werent aware of that. So, when my sister dropped tin on her little toe, which chopped part of it, her screaming, parents running and screaming, blood pouring.. I wasnt surprised. But those kind of experiences give you strange feeling of knowing, that there is more to our beings, that we see in that reality.
The weirdest dream I’ve had recently was where I ‘woke up’ each time in 3 different lifestyles as 3 different people. But my subconscious still knew it was incorrect within those people’s bodies somehow, but chose to go through it, much like a program. It really felt like I could hear, smell and see these different places as well as experience time there. I would then go to ‘sleep’ only to wake up in a new body and new surroundings. Freaked me the hell out when I finally woke up. Thank you for this amazing article and more insight😁
As a kid I began doubting reality, I became certain that only things in my view were real, that when I turned a corner of a high building for instance, everything around that corner hidden from my view would stop existing. I would quickly turn the corner to try and catch the simulation in the act, but of course I couldn’t, but that only told me that I wasn’t quick enough.
About having the technology to stimulate the universe, you don’t need the technology. Every game has a vision radius, such as gta, minecraft, fortnite and every stimulation we know. And as soon as an area goes into your vision, then they download the areas vision. This could be the same as reality. Maybe the entire universe isn’t active until we see it with our eyes. Edit: I apologise, he already mentions it. I hadn’t watched that part. sorry
Omg this was fascinating! The Mandela effect made me feel very uncomfortable bc I remember things as they weren’t? Anyway the ending of this episode was insanely insightful. Simulation theory and Theism as two sides of the same coin. At least that’s how I grasped it. Thank you for your hard work with this website. Maybe you should consider putting this up on Rumble as well. It would be a good buffer against Big Tech censorship. I say this bc of some of your other episodes that question popular narratives. Just a thought. Best regards!
I used to have these philosophical arguments with my friends back in the early 1970s as teenagers (OK, I was a nerd). One friend even argued that we all ceased to exist when we weren’t in his presence or he was asleep, and vice versa (although I feel the ‘vice versa’ was a sop to our vanity on his part – he was somewhat arrogant.) Ever noticed how the incidence of ‘glitches’ are accelerating in recent years? Could it be that gigantic numbers of iterations of a program, no matter how skillfully crafted at it’s inception, will eventually deteriorate and ‘glitch’ more regularly, until the decision has to be made to ‘reset the system’? Armageddon could be that reset. Let’s hope we all wake up on the other side with no memory of the former universe. (I would really love to taste steak again.)
When I was young I was riding my bike with my cousins to a new area- a path we never took but I remembered it. I remember the conversation that was happening already happened. I knew what was going to happen, it freaked me out so much I had to stop everyone and say we already did this. And my cousins looked at me like I was crazy but I couldn’t shake it. Still makes me think……
I grew up with my mom having all of the James Bond movies on VHF. Everytime a new one came out we watched it in the theater. I watched every single Roger Moore James Bond over and over. I saw Moonraker many many times. The girl DID have braces. It was literally the entire purpose of that scene. The villain jaws was on other James Bond movies with him having those metal teeth. That girl was the writers giving jaws a way to convert from bad guy to good guy where he and the girl help James Bond escape from the space station. That scene was specifically setup for jaws and the girl to make a love connection by both of them showing they both had metal on their teeth. Why else would the director of the movie show Jaws and the girl slowly and deliberately smiling to each other showing each other their teeth?
As a child I constantly had deja vu. Then when I was in 3rd grade I told my father that I remembered everything that had just happened before it happened. He told me that was deja vu. After that I stopped having it. It was as if telling someone what was happening to me made it stop happening. I actually wish I still had it.
If i could give this website 100 stars i would. AJ is hands down the best YouTuber ive ever seen and im a very picky person when it comes to everything. All his articles r put together extremely well and always ends with an open mind of the possibility of either or makes you question. I guess that hints the name of it right. Keep doing what u r doing AJ i haven’t found a dull article yet. 👊
I was a bit of a child prodigy, (not sure what went wrong! Lol!) reading at a very young age. My two favorite things to read were Dr. Suess and the BerenSTEIN Bears. The first time I heard it called the BerenSTAIN Bears, I thought it was a joke. I don’t know how it was spelled in the books YOU read, but I have ZERO doubt that it was Berenstein in the books I read. Also, I’d never heard “Magic Mirror on the wall” until the notion of the Mandela Effect was proposed. It was always “Mirror, mirror on the wall.” Bank on it!
The time i felt i lived in a simulation was when i was high on acid i was walking down the street with my cousin i was at peak trip and my cousin started telling me about a story between his friends and how one of them asked the other for their Snapchat and in that moment i was shot into a memory of a dream i had the previous night even tho i had already forgotten it and it was like i was reliving the dream i was fully there and conscious in the memory and the dream was about how the friend asked for the snap and the other one said no and i came back to me and my cousin walking and he was still on the part about his friend asking and then i said, “but she said no” and he looked at me like shocked and he asked me how did you know that? And i told him he told me about this before and he said no, it happened last night, as soon as he said that i got the feeling of waking up like if youre in a lucid dream qnd you get that feeling of waking up and i was so scared of the thought of “waking up” because i was tripping so hard i was like am i dreaming is this a dream where would i wake up i know im high but this cant be a dream and i ran home and i told my brother and his friend and his friend was like “why didnt you wake up?” And i said “im scared of what ill see or if i was gonna black out, im sure this is reality but that feeling scared me it felt like i could just wake up”
A thought struck me yesterday, that was kind of chilling. Let’s say at the point of death we experience a classic after-life experience. A bright point of light we feel compelled to follow, a tunnel we are “pulled” through, and an incredible spiritual reunion in the afterlife with beings of light and long lost relatives. There would be absolutely no way to tell if what we were experiencing wasn’t the next level of the simulation with a new set of physics rather than reuniting with “God” in “Heaven”. 😟
Aj the people who produce telivision or internet shows . Must be paint sniffing fools to not be lined up to give you a show. Your hands down the best narrator I’ve ever seen and I’m old. Thank you for the method of your madness. You never make the viewer feel like Ive got a simple mind. Ive never came away from perusal anything you do feeling uninformed. The way you go over every part of whatever you do . Explaining carefully as you go once again great work AJ.
There is a strong misunderatanding of phisics. Particles like electrons or photons don’t “change state” when you look at them. Looking itself doesn’t even make sense at atomic level. To determine position or velocity you have to make particle collide so you can’t determinate both at the same time. To “look” at the light means to perturbate it, that’s why the behavior of photons changes.
Sometimes I DO wonder if our dreams are real because we have our senses in dreams. What if the dimensions folds over on itself and our dreams are our other life and it’s filled with monsters, gnomes, leprechauns and colors that we don’t see here on Earth. I think it’s like looking into a mirror through another mirror. Life goes on and on and on.
No Mans Sky is a game that is set in a whole galaxy with quadrillions of planets that you explore. They achieve this using procedural generation (crazy math) and the Gane only loads that the player sees (like most games) and definitely helps the idea that quantum mechanics are our universes form of rendering
Wow! I’ll tell you that every single aspect of this article was something that I had previously studied, and tied together in the exact same way. From multiple simulations running concurrently on the same device, to fibonachi, double slit experiments….you hit it all. Thank you for this. Intelligent design is the foundation of religion, and science is now starting to come around to acknowledge this. Somewhere, the truth is in the middle. Here are a couple more points, and it’s funny you didn’t ask the biggest question….WHY? My take is if you draw the parallel to religion…God is “all knowing”. The simulation creator is all knowing, because the point of the simulation is to collect data. God harvests knowledge created by the participants, us, in the concurrent simulations, and the data we (will) harvest from out own, and Tyson did allude to this; “Looking down the line”. Another part of the puzzle has to do with aliens. It is outlandish to think they traveled all this way in a linear path, and most people will parrot talk and state “oh they bend space time” with utmost certainty… Well think about this… You’re an advanced race, and you figure out your in a simulation, and you figure out there are countless other simulations running concurrently on this same device. You’re not traveling light years, you’re traveling microns to another simulation. Sounds wild, but so does the whole topic! Thanks again. Now I can reference your article when I get called crazy 🤪.
Weirdly enough, I’ve had the concept of simulated world in my mind since I was young. I even had the idea of simulations within simulations, and the virtual impossibility of knowing conclusively that we exist in a simulation. But, I never really spoke to anyone about it, because I thought that if this idea was true, then talking about it would be dangerous. In my concept, I presumed that any simulation we might exist in, would likely be an experiment being observed by a higher reality. So, becoming aware of this simulation may ultimately result in the termination of the experiment as further data would be useless to them.
I always wonder, why am I ME? Why was I born here? I mean life is a crapshoot, right? So if it isn’t then we are being manipulated? We have pre-destiny? How much do we control? Do you feel like you control your own mind? What are those voices you hear, I mean not literally, the ones you take action or inaction on. What is a conscious? Do we all have one? Wow, I could go on. All I know is I feel really sad for the starving children I saw in pictures, and I would think, why isn’t that me? How come I’m here, living this life? It always bothered me.
The Moonraker one freaks me out. I specifically remember perusal Moonraker as a teenager, seeing Jaws’ girlfriend smile, seeing she had braces, and saying to myself: “Aw, that’s cool – they have something in common!” Fruit of the Loom had a basket. I remember, because my mother bought me underwear and I saw the basket. I remember because I tied “Loom” with a woven basket. I believe The Mandela Effect is real… But I have no idea when it all changed.
When I was younger I had a series of seizures. During some of these episodes before blacking out, I was hit with an intense sense of Deja vu (this is supposedly quite common). I literally felt like I had lived this exact moment or seen it before in a dream. I used to think that we were in a simulation and these were moments of my brain like short circuiting (a seizure is literally like an overload of electricity in your brain). This goes along with what the article said about Deja vu being an update being made, like my brain had an error loading it? In some instances before I blacked out but could feel a seizure coming on I had thoughts in fluent Spanish. I don’t speak Spanish and I remember thinking these words I didn’t know but I somehow knew were correct.
I don’t think it’s a matter of a simulation but rather how much of reality are we really experiencing. Some people have extra sensory perception and experience the world more fully and the mundane lifestyles aren’t satisfying. Experience becomes the satisfying factor in life. Everything, right now… As it is
There’s no difference. Walking to work this week I had this thought that we’re all saying the same thing in different ways. Science, religion, culture teach us the same story, rules through synonyms….it all depends on what way is easiest for you to understand. We get annoyed with each other for trying to arrive at the same destination through different routes and to me if that can change maybe we can get the answers we’re looking for.
If you take time and think The atoms formed 13.5 billion years ago went through infinite forms and situations to create a single pixel on your device and thousands of such pixels are combined making your little display that you reading. We all are billions of years old atoms combined after infinite combination to develop consciousness. After writing this i have a new question, WTF is consciousness and why do we have it if it exists
What really is freaking me out right now is once I smoked too much weed and I actually saw in my mind DNA strands as computers made of ones and zeros. That my entire brain was made up like a computer. That “they” were perusal always and that “they” knew I knew they were perusal. I’m ten minutes into this article and I know exactly what he’s talking about because I accidentally got too high and saw it.
We could very well be in a simulation, but a simulation far beyond our comprehension. I believe there’s methods to break down the walls of our reality and see beyond our typical perception. Whether we realize it or not, everything is always right in front of us but we just can’t see it in our current state. I find that truly fascinating.
When I was in middle school I ran into my great aunt Bess in the hallway of my school. I immediately stopped talking to my friends, ran over to her and excitedly greeted her. She stood there just bewildered bc it was not her, but I was so sure I could have debated it and asked for her identification, but I didn’t. I was completely deflated and embarrassed. Also, I swear I willed my husband into existence. My favorite movie growing up was The Labyrinth with David Bowie. I watched it until the vhs wouldn’t work. Some 20 years later I truly believed i was deserving of the love and kind of man I had in my heart and I’ll be damned my now husband isn’t a David, with red hair and a had a dog named Toby. It might sound silly, but it’s the darnedest thing.
You are a true saint who is trying to find the truth. And yes, Science and Faith are not incompatible. In Hinduism, it is believed that this whole world is Maya, which means a simulation. Modern religions may discard this as Paganism but Hinduism is thousands of years old and gave birth to many eastern philosophies and religions including Buddhism. Our goal should be self realization, that we are god. Observer and observed are not different but same. I am also on the path of self realization and wish you luck too. You seem to be an intelligent being.
AJ WOW !. I’m perusal this from Sunderland in England, I have to say this is one of the most outstanding movies on the subject of Simulation Theory. The way you explained this unbelievably complexed concept, made it easy for a layman as myself to understand, now I am fascinated. Thank you again for a brilliant and inspiring piece.
This a great topic bc everyone of us at some time or another has had a moment of deja vu or clairvoyance or experienced something we can’t explain (at least I have). If our reality is a simulation, somebody took an awful lot of effort, with dedication and care to create it. To my mind that’s God and I find it comforting. Now, Jaw’s girlfriend most definitely did have braces because that was the whole point of the scene. Ol’ Metalmouth found love with someone like him – with metal in her mouth. I remember laughing about it with my mom. Some article editor out there just played a practical joke by erasing the braces.