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ealth, do they show the causation? In the comments, do you believe that there's any science that demonstrates causation, not just correlation? Because the correlation I think is pretty well established. Moderate drinkers are healthier. I think that might actually be true. But do you believe that science in any study has established that it's a cause? Nope. Even, I see somebody refer to resveratrol…

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t's what the moderate drinking is, socializing with their friends. These things are all correlated with good health. So yes of course it's correlated but there's no evidence of causation. And I don't even think there's any reason to believe there would be. So someday you will see that this prediction will come true. That that was always, always that alcohol is poison and it's just poison and it's not good for you at any amount. It's fun. I didn't say it wasn't fun. It's just not good for you health-wise.

Question I got from many people is, okay Scott, so you cleverly think that the simulation is really describing reality in that and that the math of it and the statistics are that we're probably a simulation, not an original species. Now does that eliminate the possibility of God? It does not. Because you could have a God who created the first species and then the first species created all the rest of these simulations of which we are more likely to be a simulation than an original because there will always be more simulations than originals, right? But somebody asked me, well somebody had to get it all going, right? There had to be something first, right? So there had to be something before the simulation, right? Nope. You want to have your brain explode? Nope. It is not logical that there had to be something first because time, space-time, let's say space-time to make it sound a little more sciencey, but the time version of that is it's infinite. How can you have something start when time is infinite? There can't be, there logically there can't be a beginning because there would have been something before that. So I don't think that it's logical that something had to get it all going because it's not logical to think it ever started. There probably was no start, right? If time is infinite it a

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lso didn't have a beginning. So you don't need a God to get things going because things were always going. Now you're saying to yourself I don't know if that makes any sense at all, right? Does it? Does it sort of not kind of make sense that things could just always be here, right? That's the point. Your human brain doesn't have a chance of understanding infinity. Not a chance. Your brain doesn'…

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