Back to episode — Episode 2923 CWSA 08/10/25
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to say, you had to be someplace. Well, after the podcast, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Coffee with Scott Adams afterparty on spaces. So if you're on X and you want a little bit more, find Owen Gregorian on X and go to spaces. Well, how many of you are aware of the big news of the summer that fans keep throwing green dildos onto the playing surface of the NBA and WNBA games? Now if you didn't…
← Previous segment →Have you seen it? It's like, and then Don Jr., he reposted it. Oh, the norms that have been violated. How could we go on?
So the funny part, and the part that Don Jr. no doubt knows is funny, is that by reposting it, he makes them talk about it. And that's the funny part. The funny part is that Don Jr. is making CNN talk about this on TV. Now that is funny. That is very funny. So good job, Don Jr.
Elon Musk is touting the capabilities of his AI and it can create infinite environments on the fly. So it could look like you're going through a cityscape or a countryside or some fantasy place and it will just keep making new space. So it'd be like the real world where you could walk forever. Now at the moment it's limited to just a few seconds, but obviously that will continue to get better and maybe in a year or so.
Or as Elon Musk says, the future of gaming is going to be these simulated worlds. Can you imagine gaming where the world is not static, but rather you could go somewhere and it would be the one and only time that place existed? It would only be in your simulated game world. Very cool.
But as I like to remind you, as we buil
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d simulated worlds that are visually perfect and then we start populating them with characters who are programmed to believe that they're real and not characters, we're going to realize that we're a simulation. There's no way around it. It's definitely coming. So the biggest shock humanity will ever experience will be the realization, uh oh, we're actually just made from some kind of code. And the…
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