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h every person here is a joy. And mostly the staff, you know those are the people that we're interacting with, shop owners and restaurants and stuff like that. But the people who live and work here are freaking amazing. Like you actually will feel like you make a friend every time you talk to somebody here. It's crazy. It's crazy. I've never seen anything like it. So for that alone it's worth comi…
← Previous segment →rue so put this squarely in the dumb guy speculation, right? Don't assume that this has any truth to it but it's weird. It's weird. I mean if we assume that people dying the day after the vaccination means something which it doesn't because there's so many people getting the vaccination you're guaranteed to have some people die right after they get it because people die. And you're also guaranteed that any kind of vaccination is going to have some real side effects so some of them really will die.
If we're in a simulation there's a question. Let's say if we're in a simulation should we buy lottery tickets? Years of affirmations thought experiment. What would happen if two people were doing affirmations to try to get the same job and it's a job only one person can get but there are two people doing affirmations to get the job? Could they change the simulation effectively? Well no because only one person can get it. Thank you David. Only one person can get the job so you know it's not going to work for both of them.
But what about an affirmation in which you're not competing with anybody? Because I think those are the ones that if anything works it would be those, right? So something like you will get wealthy. You're not really, that doesn't directly compete with somebody else because you can get wealthy in a variety of ways that don't take any money from anybody. It just creates more money. So I would stick to affirmations and visualizing what you want in ways that are not taking something directly out of somebody else's pocket. Because if we're a simulation you don't know how many people can manipulate it. Maybe not everybody. But you don't want to be competing against somebody who's also an author of the simulation in this case.
So to answer your question buying a lottery ticket probably wouldn't work because everybody who bought one is visualizing themselves winning so you're competing against a zillion people. It's probably the least likely thing to work even if we're a simulation because it's not a simulation for your benefit. It would be a simulation in which presumably there are multiple entities. Do you want to be an NPC or a player exactly?
And I'm just looking at your comments. Is Trump aware of this? I don't know. See what that's about.
Okay, all right, that's all I have for today and I'll try, I might be able to connect with you while I'm on the flight just before it takes off so I might come on just for the sip but that depends if I'm on the flight in time. Blah blah so forget about it. I may or may not be there. And get a guest host for tomorrow. Who could possibly replace me? Who could possibly do this? Have a sip, talk about the news. It's very difficult. Yeah actually everybody can do it. No sugar in my coffee but thanks for asking. I take it black. Yeah the plane has Wi-Fi but I don't know if I'll actually be sitting down and be ready to do it in time.
Brian Stelter, yeah he's in the news. I saw the Joe Rogan taking on Stelter. Put Christina on tomorrow. You know Christina probably will not be guesting on here but I would love it if she would so that would be up to her.
All right, that's all for now and I will talk to you maybe tomorrow but see you soon.