conquers a city but if you conquer a city you don't stay there and like run the city. Like why would you get rid of all the people and then leave it empty so long that it gets covered with sand like nobody's sweeping for a thousand years? If you were a homeless primitive person and you knew there was a whole abandoned city somewhere wouldn't you move in? I don't know maybe it's food. It might be all about food and resources. Yeah I can understand disease but disease would kill everybody and then let's say it becomes empty but once it's empty are you telling me nobody wants to move back in? There's no other civilization that says hey free city there's nobody in the city let's just take it. Maybe superstition. Maybe they don't want to inhabit dead people's homes.

Mike Cernovich tweeted that he's been seeing more doppelgangers than usual. Doppelganger meaning somebody who looks just like somebody else. He said a friend even sent one of me meaning Cernovich. Could be code reuse as Scott Adams says. If so why now? Of course he's just being provocative and having fun with it. You know don't take it too seriously but how many of you are familiar with a book written decades ago called The Celestine Prophecy? Have you ever heard of that? It was a very influential, it's a fiction it's just a fictional story but a key concept in those books was that when people started noticing coincidences more often the coincidences were a signal for a consciousness shift that human awareness was about to take a leap.

Now I've always been fascinated by that and there's no reason in the world to think that a consciousness shift would be preceded by some kind of bunch of coincidences unless there's an obvious reason for it. You want to hear an obvious reason why you might notice more coincidences right before a perceptual shift? Like a really obvious reason. The coincidences were always there but your awareness improved and you're just noticing something that was right in front of you the whole time but you just didn't see it. So when somebody noticed a doppelganger of Mike Cernovich maybe a year ago they would have walked right past him not even noticed.

So I'm not saying any of this is true. I'm just having fun with it but you could imagine a situation in which the general awareness of the public is increasing and they not only see the big stuff more clearly such as the misinformation architecture of our existence such as the full propagandized news you know that sort of thing. If you're noticing the big stuff that you didn't really quite understand before wouldn't it make sense that you're also maybe noticing other patterns just because your pattern recognizer has gone to another level? And might we see other examples that would suggest that human awareness is reaching a new level?

Do you know anybody who predicted that human awareness was about to take a gigantic change? Yes that would be me in 2016 or 15 I can't remember. I predicted a number of times in public and nobody even commented on it because it was such a strange prediction that Trump would change more than politics. That he would rip a hole in the fabric of reality and change how we saw reality itself. One of my better predictions.

All right but let's take this a little bit further. Why are some other reasons that you might be able to see more coincidences? Well it could be like I said there's a coincidence storm that you apparently notice because your ability to notice things is getting better in general. Or here's another possibility. Maybe it is code reuse and we're a simulation. That we're literally a program and the program is reaching some limits you know physical limits because we keep getting more complicated. More people are born. Every person has a complicated life that has to integrate with every other complicated life. So you could quite easily imagine that even an amazingly powerful computer would reach some kind of limitation of its resources eventually. Doesn't have to but it could.

Now if you were the programmer and you were really good like you're not even an average programmer like you're a programmer from the future or even AI wrote it maybe AI programmed it so it really knew how to take care of every possibility. That's the best programmer right? The best programmer anticipates everything that could go wrong and then programs around it. So one of the things that could go wrong is you'd run out of resources. Then what are you going to do? Slow it down and then we all start moving in slow motion. Would we notice it? I think I'm moving in slow motion suddenly. No that's a bad solution. How about the program starts to reuse code so it doesn't have to make up new code all the time. That would save some resources. So maybe you would say oh hell I'm not going to design a new person I'll just copy some of the people I already have and they're not going to notice. Maybe. So maybe you're just running out of resources in the simulation. I don't think that's true but I like to put on all the fun possibilities.

But here's the thing you have to understand about what you see around you. If you could somehow know in where you're sitting right now as you're watching this your exact environment where you are, if you had some way to know how much of your actual environment that you think you see clearly is ac