se you're keeping track of your anecdotes.

All right, now here's a thought for you. You know I'm always jabbering on about how we live in a simulation and this reality is a bunch of bits created by some other civilization or intelligence. And how could you tell if it's true? It's sort of annoying, isn't it? Because if we're in a simulation, presumably the simulation could be programmed to make it impossible for you to know you're in a simulation. I mean, all it would take is one line of code, right? If you discover you're in a simulation, immediately reinterpret it as not a simulation. That's it. One line of code. And every time we discovered our true reality, we would instantly forget it and reinterpret it in some other way. So it would be very easy for the creators, if we were a simulation, just hypothetically, to keep us from knowing it. Literally one line of code. That's it. I just wrote it. And so that's how easy it would be.

But could they take away all the hints? And I would say no, I don't think they could remove all of the hints. They could just remove the solid proofs, you know, the math and the physics part. But one of the things you would expect to see, see if this makes sense to you, one of the things you'd expect to see is that the people who believe they live in a simulation would have better outcomes than people who didn't. Do you think that's fair? That if you believed you lived in a simulation, you could perhaps navigate it more effectively because you'd have a better understanding of what you're dealing with. So you might use aff