Hey everybody. You know, I said on Twitter this morning that this might be one of the best coffees with Scott Adams of all time. Let me check my notes. Yeah, yeah, it's true. It's the best one of all time.

Before we get to the simultaneous sip, because I know there's some kind of a delay here that blocks you from seeing it, but until we get to that, let me tell you a little story. I have long believed that the past can be changed by what happens in the present. Now this is a form of affirmations, because the idea with affirmations is that when you're affirming something, you say, "Oh, I want this to work out," or this part of my life to be better. In order for those things to happen, as if by magic, which is often the way you observe them — I'm not saying magic exists, I'm saying you feel like it's magic when something happens just the way you wanted it to happen — but in order for that to happen, often the past has to be altered, or at least seem like it's been altered.

What I mean is, let me give you an example. You heard the story, I think some of you, in which I was experimenting with Christina to see if we could simply use affirmations to make money show up, substantial money that we had not anticipated, something that wasn't related to my normal work, just money showing up. And sure enough, it turns out that sometime in the past, maybe over a year ago, I had inadvertently left some cryptocurrency, just a little bit, in an account that I forgot I had, which is worth a quarter of a million dollars today. Just came out of nowhere.

Now what are the odds that I was doing this affirmation for money to come in from nowhere exactly when it happened? What are the odds? Well, if affirmations is, let's say, real, or we live in a simulation, it could be that I altered the past. Because in my model of reality, you can alter the past under one condition. All right, what is the one condition in which you can alter the past? Hypothetically, we're just talking for fun here, but if we live in a simulation and you can change it, you'd have to be able to change the past for the events to work their way up to the future to be just the way you want it. Because if the past isn't just the way you want it, neither will the future.

So yeah, you're close. The one time under this model, if this were true, the one time you could change the past is when there's no counter evidence. In other words, nobody has already looked into the past that you know of and found it to be different than the past you want it to be.

Well, yesterday I got a hundred dollars in the mail. And thank you, James. You're probably watching this right now. B