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I got off the flight, alone in the Charlotte airport, and thought to myself "I could really use some Motörhead right now."
Reached into my carry-on, to fish out my iPod as I walked, and recognized something out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look and Lemmy was standing 5 feet away from me. I guess they had just played Charlotte and were on their way to the show I had to miss.
Shook his hand.
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In 2022. I found myself in that same bedroom, wearing a white dress, with a silk belt. I was crying. It was my wedding day. It was me. She saw me in the future.
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As ridiculous as it may sound, some people believe that it’s actually possible we may be living in a simulation. Just ask MIT computer scientist Rizwan Virk. He wrote a piece for Fast Company where he claims that the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence actually supports the idea that we’re living in a matrix. Because of this, Virk believes with 70% certainty that our world is a simulation.
“In the past few years, the rise of generative AI like ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and X’s Grok has proceeded rapidly,” Virk writes. “We now have not just AI, which has passed the Turing Test, but we already have rudimentary AI characters living in the virtual world with whom we can interact.”
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Virk believes that because of how rapidly AI technology has advanced, we’re getting increasingly closer to the “simulation point.” According to Virk, this is a theoretical point where the virtual worlds we create become indistinguishable from reality. When this happens, AI beings will also be indistinguishable from biological beings.
“In short, when we reach the simulation point, we would be capable of building something like the Matrix ourselves, complete with realistic landscapes, avatars and AI characters,” he explains.
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Days later, I pull up to a new trailhead. Toss my backpack on the front seat. Tie my hair, put on sunscreen, tie my shoes, go to grab my backpack -- the GoPro is *sitting on top of the backpack I had just tossed.
Still can't figure that one out.
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This happens a lot.
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But not everyone believes that we may be living in a simulation. Some physicists say there’s simply no way that the nature of reality could be created on any computer.
“If such a simulation were possible, the simulated universe could itself give rise to life, which in turn might create its own simulation,” Professor Mir Faizal from the University of British Columbia Okanagan says.
However, Faizal does not believe that this is the case. “It is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity,” he explained. “Therefore, no physically complete and consistent theory of everything can be derived from computation alone.”
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By the time I calmed down, my cousin called & said our grandmother had passed and the doctors had been trying to resuscitate her for a half hour. I think my soul felt her transitioning. Still makes me tear up when I think about it.
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Three months later, back home in the US, I opened my jewelry box, saw the case, assumed it was empty… opened it, and my earrings were inside.
How do you explain that?
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