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Mysterious Circumstances

The Simulated Multiverse - Interview w/ Rizwan Virk

Mysterious Circumstances

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True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Rizwan Virk is a graduate of MIT and Stanford, and is a successful entrepreneur, video game pioneer, film producer, computer scientist and bestselling author of The Simulation Hypothesis and The Simulated Multiverse. He is the founder of Play Labs at MIT, a video game accelerator at MIT, and is also an advisor to the Galileo Project at Harvard. 

You can grab a copy of Rizwan's books here.....https://www.amazon.com/Simulated-Multiverse-Scientist-Simulation-Hypothesis/dp/1954872003

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0:00.0

The So welcome to mysterious circumstances.

0:32.0

And for the listeners, this man right here, dude, I just telling him, I said, once I got the email for this interview, I had to take it.

0:40.2

He's the author of more than two books, but the two I'm going to mention right now is the simulation hypothesis and the simulated multiverse.

0:49.8

Your background is incredibly interesting.

0:53.5

I mean, MIT, Stanford, I know you're on a couple boards

0:57.4

as well with each of those universities. If not, I know Harvard too. But you're also incorporate

1:04.2

like UFOs and I don't even know what they call them now, UAPs, I think. So they keep the name, and it's like, yeah, it's the same thing.

1:14.1

We all know what it is, but maybe.

1:16.8

It's the same thing.

1:18.4

In fact, the term UFO was adopted by the government because the old term,

1:23.8

flying saucer had, you know, too much science fiction baggage associated with it.

1:29.0

It looks like they did the same thing again with UFO where they named it to UAP.

1:34.0

I love it so much, man. So tell us a little bit about your background and how you got into these

1:39.9

topics and how it, how it interested you. Sure. So, you know, my background is as a computer

1:45.8

scientist and, you know, I studied computer science back in MIT. I was a programmer, you know,

1:51.5

writing code. And then I became an entrepreneur in the video game industry in Silicon Valley,

1:57.9

where I ended up going to business school. And it was really from my work in the video game industry that I started to think more

2:04.8

about virtual reality and where it might take us.

2:08.3

And one day, I had actually sold my last video game company and I had become an investor

2:12.9

as an venture capitalist at that point.

2:15.2

And I was visiting a startup in Marin County, which,

2:18.0

if you know, is just north of San Francisco and looks out over the bay. And they had made a

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