And the Hello and welcome to Series Inc.

Only, this is episode 410.

I'm your host Thomas Smith, so glad you're joining me today. It's been a little bit since the last episode a couple reasons for that for one holiday cheer we celebrate Christmas here and if anyone wishes me happy holidays instead of Merry Christmas.

I punched them in the face.

No, not really, just kidding.

But if you want to hear more about the silly war on Christmas,

make sure to go over to where there's woke.

We've got a really fun deep dive into the war on Christmas

we're embarking on over there on where there's woke.

But anyway, also it's because I recorded a bunch

with astrophysicist Brian, and it ended up turning into like a little bit of a mini series so it's the kind of thing where I've been like working on the whole thing at once and then I'm going to get it out to you more at once so it's like the way the recordings went it made more sense to kind of do it all together and break it up into parts and so you're gonna get that over the next few days I'm really excited here's the cool series we're doing. We're talking about the question of whether or not we live in a simulation.

Now, first person I go to when I want to know answers to deep questions about the universe.

Obviously is Elon Musk.

And so if you want to hear what that guy thinks,

here's, maybe I'll let him present

a little bit of whether or not we're in a simulation.

So given that we're clearly on a trajectory to have games that are indistinguishable

from reality and those games could be played on any set-top box or on a PC or whatever and they would probably be, you know, billions of such computers or set-up boxes.

It would seem to follow that the odds that we're in base reality is one in billions.

What do you think? Well I think it's one in billions. Okay.

I also found a clip of Neil degrass Tyson talking about it that I thought

it was funny. Listen in for how the clip ends, it's my favorite.

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