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n too much. So I don't know. I'm worried about the health risks, but I would say it's short of being proven. It might be. Could be proven someday. Neuralink brain chip could give users orgasms on demand. So the Star is reporting that the Neuralink could give orgasms on command. You know, hypnotists can do that too. That's right. A disc can do that. You don't need Neuralink for that. All right. Bu…

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ll, there's a new software that's like similar to the Star Trek holodeck that can create all these virtual worlds that didn't exist before. So you can say, give me a bar scene or we're outdoors, and it just creates that world. Now I guess they're using it to train AI. So you use one AI to create worlds and then a second AI to look at that world and learn from it as if it had been a real world. But here's what I say. We're getting closer and closer to removing all doubt that we are a simulation. You all see that, right? The path toward realizing we're a simulation is so clear at this point. Every time a new thing comes out, it's all in the same direction.

Now, here's what this is going to do. Once you realize that AI can create an environment on demand, the next thing you're going to see is that you can take a walk through it. So for example, you can say I'm in a house and then the house will be there perfectly. And then every time you need to go into another room, not until you need it, the room will form before you see it. So when you reach for the doorknob for the first time, the software will build the room behind the door because it didn't need to do it until then. So it'll do it on demand because it's not going to create the universe in case you go everywhere in the universe. It's going to give you what you need as you need it. And then when you walk outside, maybe for the first time the outdoors will be created where you can see it. And as you walk through the forest, the forest would be created ahead of it so you keep seeing things.

Once you've experienced that, all doubt will be removed about whether you live in a simulation because that's your actual experience. And specifically it's going to teach you that history is created by the present. It doesn't work the other way. Let me give you that example. You're in the video game and until you open the door there's nothing behind it. But as you turn the knob in your virtual reality and open it, the computer gives you the room. Once you open that room, it's not just that it's there at the moment but its history was created too. In other words, if there's some furniture in the room, there's an implied history. Something delivered the furniture to the room. So you're going to experience in the virtual realm that the impression of history is being created by things you're seeing in the moment. And then you're going to look at the double slit experiment and Schrodinger's cat. And I get that they work at the quantum level and not at the big person level, but still it's going to be proof to you that the past is generated by the present.

Once you realize that we're in a simulation and everything's heading in that direction, it's going to be obvious. And probably less than a year it will be generally assumed that we're a simulation.

All right. There's a story about a guy who's spending $10,000 per month on AI girlfriends. And just like dating apps, he has more than one. So he's got one app for this girlfriend, one app for the other one. And apparently the man who can afford it, I guess it's a man who's got some money and he's single, so he's got some extra money, and he says it's great. It's completely working and is satisfying.

Now add that to the holodeck and I'm pretty sure human reproduction is going to come to a screaming end really quickly. Really quickly. But here's the thing. I wonder, in the old old days when humans were more like animals, was it true that everybody got to reproduce? Or is that just a modern thing where it doesn't matter how you rank in the hierarchy of your tribe, you all get to reproduce? Now what happens if in the virtual world the people who were maybe not so competitive for reproducing, they just take a pass? They go, all right, we won't reproduce. We'll just watch video games and play out the rest of our simulation. Will that cause everybody to not reproduce or will it make the billionaires reproduce like crazy? You know, that Elon Musk model where he can just have as many babies as he wants. You can just keep doing it because there's no real limit on him.

So are we going to go back to a situation where the most capable are having all the babies? And is that bad for us or good for us? I don't know. I mean, if the people who are taken out of the reproduction cycle are completely happy about it, let's say the men, I don't know about the women, but if the men are happy about it, are they worse off because they didn't really have this great marriage option anyway? So they have this great virtual reality option. Maybe it's better. But then the people who can afford it and are really bringing some powerful DNA to the mix because they're smart or strong or handsome or tall or whatever it is, they still will probably be mating like crazy. So we might end up changing the gene pool of humanity by simply making it impractical for the people on the struggling end of things to reproduce. And they might be just as happy not reproducing. No, nothing is predictable. But get your AI girlfriend.

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