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Are we living in a simulation?
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First asked Nov 9, 2023, most recently Nov 30, 2025. Excerpts below are from machine transcripts with filler words (um, uh, you know) and stutters removed; … marks a cut. They are not checked word for word, so use the link to hear the exact words, or the transcript link for the raw text. Timestamps: 2 cross-checked against YouTube captions, 2 from the archive transcript only. X has no link-to-time option, so X links open at the start.
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Nov 9, 2023 · Lex Fridman Podcast · asked by Lex Fridman
Q: Who created this thing? Who's running this thing?
A master plan in the sense. So maybe an interesting answer to the question of determinism versus free will is that if we are in a simulation, the reason that these higher beings would hold a simulation is to see what happens. So they don't know what happens, otherwise they wouldn't hold the simulation. So when humans create a simulation, so it's SpaceX and Tesla, we create simulations all the time, especially for …
Jan 6, 2024 · Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · asked by Peter Diamandis
Q: Why would be, why would it be alive right now in this single most interesting time?
Yeah, well, if we are in a simulation, the way to keep the simulation going is to keep being interesting. So, like, humans run lots of computer simulations because we don't know what the outcome's going to be and we're curious to see. We'll run lots of simulations, like in Tesla we'll run crash simulations and SpaceX will run rocket flight simulations. And we only stop doing the simulations when the outcome is …
Oct 31, 2025 · The Joe Rogan Experience · asked by Joe Rogan
Q: Well, isn't it just possible that the simulation is inevitable, but that we are in base reality building towards a simulation?
We're making simulations, so we're making simulations. You can just think of photorealistic video games as being simulations. And especially as you apply AI in these video games, the characters in the video games will be incredibly interesting to talk to. They won't just have a limited dialogue tree where if you go to the crossbow merchant and you try to talk about any subject except buying a crossbow, they just …
Nov 30, 2025 · People by WTF · asked by Nikhil Kamath
Q: What do you know that I don't and I can learn from?
I think most likely outside the simulation would be less interesting than in the simulation because you're most likely a distillation of what's interesting because that's what we do in this, that's what we do in our reality. And then I do also have a theory which is like the most interesting outcome is the most likely outcome as seen by a third party, the God, the gods or God of the simulation. Because when we do …
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@elonmusk · Nov 1, 2025
@Dr_Singularity I’m not saying we’re for sure in a simulation, but reaching the firm conclusion that we are not based on pseudoscience is ridiculous
View on X ↗@elonmusk · Feb 10, 2026
@martinmbauer Because this variant of reality/simulation is more interesting
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