And the Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 415 I'm your

host Thomas Smith and we have done quite a bit in recent episodes on the

simulation theory or the simulation argument to slightly different things but the

difference barely matters but anyway the idea the question of do we live in a

simulation and some of these have been pretty you know pretty technical pretty

dense in the philosophy the physics the computing I eat that stuff up, I love it, but here's what

I wanted to do in the kind of grand finale here. If you are someone who, I don't know, maybe

you didn't follow every detail of those my goal for this episode is for everyone

Whether you were super in with every detail of that and following right along with Brian and I or if you were like, ah, this is a little bit out of my kind of area of expertise or something.

Either way, I want this to be the episode you can point to if you want to say hey Elon Musk for example if you're I don't

know Grimes or somebody hey Elon Musk we don't live in a fucking simulation you

idiot or something that is my goal here because in my view from all we've done,

from all the work we've covered both already on the show and from just a ton of philosophy

papers that I've read about this, it is not warranted to worry about

whether or not we live in a simulation. Personally, I don't think we do or if we do it's of a

nature that makes it such that we really should just not worry about it. I mean to quote the clip I played you actually of Larry King with Neil degrass Tyson where he's like, so what do I care? I don't know anything. You know, it's kind of that. So that's my goal here. So I hope this is something you can tune into or point people to if you ever are in that kind of conversation to say here's a bunch of reasons why don't worry about that argument.

So super quickly just so we're all on the same page and just in case there's anybody who is just coming to this episode alone, I'm going to give the

30 second version of the original Bostrom argument that I have since learned by the way has been

modified and updated quite a bit, but the argument is really quite simple, as long as you

remember all parts of it, and the three different conclusions, at least again in the

version one of the argument. It's basically this if

simulations high quality indistinguishable from reality basically simulations are

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