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- Are we living in a simulation?
100%, and here's how.
If you live in a simulation that means we are not human
but digital beings living in a vast computer program created
by our far future descendants.
Computer scientists say the odds that we're living
in a simulation are 50 50
and we have to trust computer scientists.
They're my daddy.
Let's say you're certain you live
in a non-computer simulated reality.
Your routine never follows a set pattern.
You never experienced anything odd
except when your grandmother visits
and you greet her wearing your favorite blue pants.
And she says, "Nice gold pants."
But when you look down, you only see blue.
She tells you, "Yanny, stop acting crazy.
"Those pants are gold."
You tell her, "Grandma, my name is Laurel."
And she says, "I know, of course your name is Yanny."
You can't deny what you've just seen and heard.
This isn't a silly misunderstanding.
It's a break in the code because you live in a permutation.
Let's say you never fight with your grandmother
over visual and auditory hallucinations,
at least from what you can remember.
And you have an incredible memory.
So when you get invited to a movie night
for Kazaam starring Shaq, you suggest watching the
far superior movie Shazaam starring Sinbad.
But your friends say that's impossible
because the Shazaam movie doesn't exist.
You freak out.
Your friends say, "Don't worry, this isn't a simulation.
"You're just suffering from the Mandela effect."
A false memory phenomenon
where a person recalls something that did not happen.
You say, "What does this have to do with Nelson Mandela?
"He died in prison in the 1980s."
At which point your friends pull up thousands of photos
of Nelson Mandela alive and well all the way through 2013.
But no matter how many photos they show you,
now you know the truth.
Your life is a duplication.
Okay, let's say you never have any memory issues.
You remember things exactly as they were
except when it comes to big projects.
And you're currently in the classroom giving a presentation
while completely naked.
Your mom and camp counselor and a guy from Cheers are there.
They all laugh and point at your exposed genitals.
You try to speak, but when you open your mouth
all of your teeth fall out.
All of a sudden you realize you're dreaming.
Now that you know you're lucid,
you'll be able to wake yourself back up
and return to reality.
You open your eyes and there you are in your bed.
"Good morning," says your dog.
But you don't have a talking dog.
Only Elon Musk has that.
You tell yourself to wake up and you do
but just to make sure you check a nearby clock.
If the numbers look melty, you know you're still dreaming.
Classic lucid dreaming technique 100% confirmed.
Only problem is unbeknownst to you,
your roommates signed you up for the reboot
of TLC's home renovation show "While You Were Out."
Except this season, instead of redecorating while you're
on vacation, they restyle your house while you're asleep.
And these style experts love Salvador Dali.
So they fill your apartment with melting clocks.
Now it will be impossible to know
whether you're trapped in the real world
or trapped in a simulation run
by the most powerful computer, your mind.
Let's say you've pinched yourself awake
And all the clocks are non-melty.
You know, you're living in the real world,
a world that you've known to be true since you were a baby.
But something's gnawing at you.
Every time you walk down the street, it gets busy.
And your wife keeps talking to you like she's
in a commercial.
And recently a spotlight fell out of the sky.
This spooky feeling gets so deep,
you decide to do the one thing
that everyone tells you is too dangerous.
Sailing.
The further you sail, the more a storm rages
until all of a sudden the mast of your sailboat penetrates
a cardboard wall?
Turns out your sky is just wallpaper.
Your ocean, a giant pool.
A voice speaks from the clouds.
"Truman, I can explain."
But it doesn't matter what he says.
Now, you know the truth.
Your world does fake run by a super producer.
So yes, you are living in a simulation.
It's just a matter of when and uh-oh.
Do the humans know that they're living in a simulation?
Okay, 100% and here's how.
Look most experts say humans are too stupid
to ever realize they're in a simulation.
Okay, but then again, humans came up with Dippin Dots
and we know that's the ice cream of the future.
And how.
I'm doctor expert Natasha Vaynblat.
And your worst fear has been confirmed.
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