1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Okay, So I have a question for you, and I 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,599 need you to be, you know, brutally honest with yourself 3 00:00:05,599 --> 00:00:06,280 for just a second. 4 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm ready. 5 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: I want you to look back at your last week. 6 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,919 Not the specific meetings, not the emails, not the dinner plans, 7 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:17,960 none of that, just the feeling of it, exactly, the feeling. 8 00:00:18,559 --> 00:00:21,839 Did Monday to Friday actually feel like a distance you traveled, 9 00:00:22,199 --> 00:00:23,960 you know, like a real journey with a beginning, of 10 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,120 middle and an end. Or did it feel like you 11 00:00:26,199 --> 00:00:29,320 blinked on Monday morning over your coffee and then suddenly 12 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,439 you were washing dishes on Friday night just wondering what 13 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:34,200 on earth just happened to the time. 14 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 2: That is the question of the era, isn't it the 15 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:39,840 one that seems to just stop everyone in their tracks. 16 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:44,439 Speaker 1: It is because lately I have been having this really distinct, 17 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:50,880 almost terrifying sensation that the sun is rising and setting 18 00:00:51,039 --> 00:00:53,240 before I've even had a chance to formulate a single 19 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,280 coherent thought. It really feels like the days are just 20 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,119 slipping through my fingers like water, and no matter how 21 00:00:59,119 --> 00:01:01,200 tight I make a fist, I just can't hold onto them. 22 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 2: You are definitely not alone in that it's becoming the 23 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,000 universal conversation. You hear it everywhere from everyone. Where did 24 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,680 the month go? I can't believe it's already November. 25 00:01:12,879 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 1: Was in Christmas yesterday exactly. 26 00:01:15,439 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 2: But the intensity of it recently, it feels different. It 27 00:01:20,439 --> 00:01:22,079 feels i don't know, almost aggressive. 28 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: Aggressive, that's the perfect word. It doesn't feel like the 29 00:01:25,599 --> 00:01:28,239 old cliche, you know, time flies and you having fun. 30 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:32,799 It feels like glitches. It feels like the actual distance 31 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,640 between events is dissolving. And usually when I complain about this, 32 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,239 people just you know, they pat me in the head. 33 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:41,599 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you get the standard biological explanation, right. 34 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: Well, you're just getting older. That's how it works. Your 35 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:44,400 perception of time changes. 36 00:01:44,519 --> 00:01:48,239 Speaker 2: The standard proportional theory. It's the safe, comfortable answer that 37 00:01:48,359 --> 00:01:49,239 ends the conversation. 38 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: Right. But today we're going to completely reject that explanation. 39 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 2: We're throwing it out the window. 40 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: Good because we have to. Because the source we're covering 41 00:01:59,439 --> 00:02:03,359 today argues that this isn't a biological defect, it's not 42 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,400 in your head. It is a measurable universal shift in 43 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:09,000 the pulse of reality itself. 44 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:11,479 Speaker 2: It's a massive claim. I mean, it sounds like pure 45 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,159 science fiction at first glance, it does. But when you 46 00:02:14,199 --> 00:02:17,000 actually start digging into the arguments, when you layer the 47 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,479 physics on top of the information theory, it becomes well, 48 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,400 it becomes unsettlingly plausible. 49 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,159 Speaker 1: Welcome to thrilling thread. Today we are pulling on a 50 00:02:26,159 --> 00:02:29,560 thread that might just unravel the entire sweater. We are 51 00:02:29,599 --> 00:02:32,840 analyzing a really mind bending video from the YouTube channel 52 00:02:32,879 --> 00:02:36,039 Beyond the Veil, and the title is why time is 53 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,120 speeding up? The simulation is running out of memory. 54 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 2: Just the title alone has a lot to take in. 55 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: It is and look, I know we cover some wild 56 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,319 stuff on this show. We love a good rabbit hole, 57 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,719 but this one, this one hits different because it combines 58 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:54,479 that vague existential dread we're all feeling with hard cold physics. 59 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 2: It really does. It moves the conversation from say time 60 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:01,479 management or mindfulness directly into the the remo dynamics of information. 61 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 1: So what's the core thesis here? 62 00:03:03,159 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 2: The thesis is pretty straightforward, but the implications are terrifying. 63 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,639 The fabric of time is thinning because the system that's 64 00:03:10,719 --> 00:03:13,520 maintaining it our reality is overloaded. 65 00:03:14,319 --> 00:03:17,159 Speaker 1: So buckle up. We aren't just talking about aging. We're 66 00:03:17,159 --> 00:03:19,960 talking about lag we're talking about frame skipping. 67 00:03:20,319 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 2: We're talking about the universe acting like a computer that 68 00:03:23,159 --> 00:03:24,879 has way too many tabs open. 69 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,439 Speaker 1: Okay, let's unpack the code. 70 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 2: Let's do it. So to really start, we have to 71 00:03:30,759 --> 00:03:34,080 properly address that you're just getting older argument. 72 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: You mentioned the proportional theory right. 73 00:03:36,439 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 2: In science, that's what it's known as, and we should 74 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,199 probably define that clearly so everyone's on the same page. 75 00:03:41,319 --> 00:03:42,199 Speaker 1: Good idea. 76 00:03:42,319 --> 00:03:45,039 Speaker 2: So the idea is really simple math. When you are 77 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,560 five years old, one single year represents twenty percent of 78 00:03:48,599 --> 00:03:49,719 your entire existence. 79 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:51,039 Speaker 1: It's a huge chunk of your. 80 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 2: Life, the massive chunk of data. So it feels like 81 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,439 an eternity because relative to your life experience, it is 82 00:03:57,439 --> 00:04:00,520 an eternity. The file size of that year is just enormous. 83 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,520 In your memory. Oh, I totally remember that. Summers when 84 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,159 I was a kid felt like they lasted for three years. 85 00:04:06,599 --> 00:04:08,599 You go back to school in September and you'd feel 86 00:04:08,599 --> 00:04:11,039 like a completely different person exactly. 87 00:04:11,599 --> 00:04:14,319 Speaker 1: But then when you turn fifty, one year is only 88 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,160 two percent of your life. It's a tiny fraction, just 89 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,839 a blip. It's just a blip. So the theory goes 90 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,120 that your brain perceives it as shorter because it's statistically 91 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,639 less significant. It's a much smaller slice of the pie. 92 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 2: And for a long long time, that was the answer, 93 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,720 that was the case closed moment in any of these conversations. Right, 94 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,959 But the source we're looking at argues that this neat 95 00:04:38,079 --> 00:04:41,600 mathematical curve, it just no longer fits the data we're 96 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,240 seeing right now. The acceleration we're all feeling isn't linear anymore. 97 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:46,199 It's exponential. 98 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 1: And here's the piece of evidence that really makes you 99 00:04:48,759 --> 00:04:52,120 pause and think, it's not just us. You know people 100 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,680 in their thirties or forties or fifties complaining about this. 101 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,199 The source points out the teenagers and even young children 102 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,240 are now reporting that the months are just vanishing. 103 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:04,959 Speaker 2: That's the kicker. That is where the whole biological theory 104 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,040 just completely falls apart. For me, it has to, because 105 00:05:08,079 --> 00:05:10,519 these are the very people who should be experiencing time 106 00:05:10,639 --> 00:05:13,600 at its slowest according to proportional theory. 107 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: Right They're still in that high percentage window. 108 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:17,639 Speaker 2: A ten year old is still in that twenty percent 109 00:05:17,639 --> 00:05:20,399 to ten percent window. So if they are feeling like 110 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,480 the summer flew by in a week, or that the 111 00:05:22,519 --> 00:05:25,480 school year just dissolved instantly. 112 00:05:25,199 --> 00:05:26,319 Speaker 1: Then the theory is broken. 113 00:05:26,399 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 2: Proportional theory is broken. It cannot explain that anomaly. 114 00:05:29,639 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: Which suggests the phenomenon is objective, not relative. It's not 115 00:05:33,759 --> 00:05:37,720 about the observer, it's about the timeline itself. Something has 116 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,720 like latched onto the timeline and is dragging it faster 117 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:43,800 than our biological clocks can even track. 118 00:05:44,079 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 2: The source poses this really great question. It says, if 119 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,759 the clock on the wall says sixty seconds have past, 120 00:05:51,079 --> 00:05:54,279 but your brain insists it was only ten. Which clock 121 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,759 is broken, the biological one or the digital one that's 122 00:05:57,839 --> 00:05:59,040 running the entire universe. 123 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,519 Speaker 1: That for you to question the very calibration of reality. 124 00:06:03,759 --> 00:06:06,480 If our internal metronome is so out of sync with 125 00:06:06,519 --> 00:06:10,879 the external one, then something fundamental has shifted in the environment. 126 00:06:10,959 --> 00:06:12,399 Speaker 2: It's a system wide change. 127 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: And speaking of calibration, the video asks us to do 128 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,279 a little visualization exercise. I actually want to do this 129 00:06:18,399 --> 00:06:20,959 right now with everyone listening. Okay, I want you to 130 00:06:20,959 --> 00:06:22,800 stop for a second and think back to the year 131 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,360 twenty twenty. I know it was a weird year, but 132 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,199 just visualize it now. Look at where we are now, 133 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,680 or just look at the gap between say twenty twenty 134 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:32,639 and twenty twenty six. 135 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 2: That's a six year gap. 136 00:06:34,079 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 1: A six year gap. Let's put that into historical context. 137 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,439 Speaker 2: Six years is an era. I mean in six years, 138 00:06:39,879 --> 00:06:44,439 entire empires have risen and fallen. Technologies have completely revolutionized 139 00:06:44,439 --> 00:06:44,800 the world. 140 00:06:44,879 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: A child goes from wearing diapers to sitting in a 141 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:51,120 first grade classroom reading books. It is a massive amount 142 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:55,879 of duration, it is. But be honest with yourself. Does 143 00:06:55,879 --> 00:06:58,560 that gap feel like six years? Does it feel like 144 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:00,959 a long winding road of a two thousand days? 145 00:07:00,959 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 2: Where does it feel like a single gray month? 146 00:07:03,959 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: For me and for most people I talk to, it's 147 00:07:05,959 --> 00:07:08,160 the latter. It feels like a glitch. It feels like 148 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:10,720 a blur, a total blur. The source calls this a 149 00:07:10,759 --> 00:07:12,879 compressed file or a corrupted memory. 150 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:13,759 Speaker 2: I like that analogy. 151 00:07:14,079 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, the data is there intellectually, you know things happened, 152 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:22,000 but the duration, the sensation of time actually passing, has 153 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,920 been stripped away. It's like the timeline was just pinched. 154 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 2: It's a perfect analogy. Actually, it's like a ZIP file 155 00:07:28,399 --> 00:07:31,879 on your computer. All the contents are still inside the photos, 156 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,639 the documents, but the space it takes up on the 157 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:35,800 disc has been crushed. 158 00:07:35,839 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: Down. The air has been squeezed out of. 159 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,759 Speaker 2: The bag exactly, and this leads us directly into the 160 00:07:40,759 --> 00:07:44,759 core metaphor of today's analysis, the simulation hypothesis. 161 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: Okay, so we have to go there if we just 162 00:07:46,839 --> 00:07:49,399 for a moment, except the idea, which by the way, 163 00:07:49,439 --> 00:07:53,000 is considered mathematically probable by a lot of very serious physicists, 164 00:07:53,639 --> 00:07:56,759 that our universe is a digital construct. 165 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,759 Speaker 2: Which honestly explains a lot about the weirdness of the 166 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,120 last few years, absurdity of it all. 167 00:08:01,279 --> 00:08:04,319 Speaker 1: It really does. But if we accept that premise, then 168 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,399 we have to stop looking at time as a river. 169 00:08:06,639 --> 00:08:10,839 We always use these organic metaphors time flows, time wins, right. 170 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 2: But in a digital system, time isn't a river. So 171 00:08:13,879 --> 00:08:17,480 what is it In a simulation? Time is a processing resource. 172 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:21,519 It's a clock cycle. Think about a massive open world 173 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,560 video game, something like Grand Theft, Auto or Cyberpunk. Okay, 174 00:08:26,079 --> 00:08:29,439 when the hardware struggles to render a really complex scene, 175 00:08:29,959 --> 00:08:32,559 you know, too many explosions, too many players, too much 176 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:35,360 physics simulation. What happens to the game. 177 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:36,879 Speaker 1: It lags, It gets all choppy. 178 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 2: Specifically, the computer uses a trick called frame skipping. The 179 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:44,080 computer realizes it can't draw sixty frames every single second 180 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,240 because it just doesn't have the processing power, So it. 181 00:08:46,279 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: Drops the information between the key moments to keep the 182 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:50,039 game from crashing. 183 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,919 Speaker 2: It drops the visual information between the seconds. It sacrifices 184 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,120 smoothness for continuity, so the player sees the game suddenly 185 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,120 speed up. It gets jerky, it gets chaotic. 186 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 1: You lose that flu movement. People start like teleporting short 187 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:03,679 distances exactly. 188 00:09:03,759 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 2: And the argument here is that we aren't just aging. 189 00:09:06,279 --> 00:09:09,519 The system itself is lagging. The simulation is running out 190 00:09:09,519 --> 00:09:11,360 of random access memory. 191 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,159 Speaker 1: I mean, just think about the sheer amount of data 192 00:09:14,519 --> 00:09:18,120 humanity generates today compared to what just one hundred years ago. 193 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:23,240 Every smartphone, every server, every thought, every single interaction with 194 00:09:23,279 --> 00:09:24,120 the global network. 195 00:09:24,279 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 2: It's an explosion of information entropy. And the universe has 196 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,360 been running for thirteen point eight billion years. That save 197 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,919 file is getting absolutely massive. 198 00:09:34,039 --> 00:09:37,039 Speaker 1: Man, if the system is optimizing to save resources, it 199 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,840 means it's getting ready to purge unnecessary data, which. 200 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 2: Brings us to a really terrifying question that the source asks. 201 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:48,799 If the simulation is optimizing, are you the player or 202 00:09:48,879 --> 00:09:51,639 are you just the background code that's being optimized away? 203 00:09:51,919 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 1: Oof. I do not like that question. I definitely want 204 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:57,000 to be the player, but lately it really feels like 205 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,360 I'm an NPC non player character just walk in the 206 00:10:00,399 --> 00:10:02,240 walls while the main characters do their things. 207 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 2: A common feeling. 208 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,519 Speaker 1: But okay, let's get into the mechanics of this, because 209 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:08,279 the source says there's a glitch happening inside our heads too. 210 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:10,759 It's not just the universe, it's how we're processing it. 211 00:10:11,039 --> 00:10:13,559 Speaker 2: Well, it's a two front war. Really. You have the 212 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,799 internal processing paradox happening inside the brain, and then you 213 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,759 have this external frequency shift happening in the world. 214 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 1: Itself, and we need to look at both to understand 215 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:23,360 why we feel so crazy. 216 00:10:23,399 --> 00:10:25,159 Speaker 2: Precisely, let's start with the brain. 217 00:10:25,519 --> 00:10:28,519 Speaker 1: Okay, So the source says that our perception of time 218 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,559 is intrinsically linked to memory formation. 219 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 2: Yes, this connects right back to the childhood thing. When 220 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,720 we're kids, everything is new, right, everything novelty is the 221 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,080 absolute key to time dilation in the brain. So when 222 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,320 a child sees the ocean for the first time, or 223 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:45,919 rides a bike or tastes a lemon, the brain is 224 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:49,320 writing dense, rich code to your long term storage. 225 00:10:49,399 --> 00:10:52,200 Speaker 1: It's recording in four K resolution because it needs to learn. 226 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 2: Yes, high detail equals long time in your memory. The 227 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,120 file size is huge. But as adults, of course, we 228 00:10:59,159 --> 00:11:02,759 fall into routine. The commute, the coffee, the office, the email, 229 00:11:02,799 --> 00:11:03,480 the commute home. 230 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: So the brain stops recording in four K. 231 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:09,399 Speaker 2: It starts compressing repetitive data. It doesn't need to save 232 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,080 every single commute you've ever taken. I mean, that would 233 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,200 be a colossal waste of energy. So it just saves 234 00:11:15,279 --> 00:11:18,240 one generic file called drive to work and links to 235 00:11:18,279 --> 00:11:19,559 it every day, which is. 236 00:11:19,519 --> 00:11:22,159 Speaker 1: Why you can arrive at work and not remember a 237 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:23,639 single thing about the drive. 238 00:11:23,799 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 2: Your brain just didn't bother to write it down. 239 00:11:25,639 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: But that's the standard explanation. Again, we've kind of heard 240 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,960 that before. The source adds a new crucial variable here, 241 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:34,600 digital hypersaturation. 242 00:11:35,279 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 2: And this is the key difference between our generation and 243 00:11:38,399 --> 00:11:41,480 every single generation that came before us. We are consuming 244 00:11:41,639 --> 00:11:46,120 terabytes of information daily. We're scrolling social media, reading headlines, 245 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,000 watching fifteen second videos, but. 246 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: We retain almost none of it none. 247 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 2: It's the doom scrolling phenomenon. You look up and an 248 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,440 hour has passed, but you can't name a single thing 249 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:56,200 you just looked at. 250 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 1: It's just gone. 251 00:11:57,559 --> 00:11:59,879 Speaker 2: We are processing in real time, but we aren't writing 252 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:01,919 to the hard drive. We're writing to the cash. 253 00:12:02,039 --> 00:12:04,759 Speaker 1: Now, for anyone who isn't a techie, the cash is 254 00:12:04,879 --> 00:12:08,200 like temporary memory. It's the ram that gets white clean 255 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,440 the second you close the browser or turn off the computer. 256 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 2: Precisely, so you end up in this state of what 257 00:12:14,519 --> 00:12:18,519 the source calls constant buffering. You feel exhausted because your 258 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:20,919 processor is running at one hundred percent just trying to 259 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:21,840 handle the fees. 260 00:12:21,759 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: So you're chemically depleted. 261 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 2: But when you look back at your week, the memory 262 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:27,399 bank is just empty. 263 00:12:27,759 --> 00:12:32,759 Speaker 1: That is profoundly sad and incredibly accurate. You're working so 264 00:12:32,879 --> 00:12:35,399 hard to process all this garbage data that you have 265 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:38,840 no space left to actually encode a real memory. 266 00:12:38,919 --> 00:12:41,519 Speaker 2: The source has this one quote that really stuck with me. 267 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:44,480 The year feels short because you were barely present for it. 268 00:12:44,519 --> 00:12:46,799 You were just a pass through node for digital. 269 00:12:46,399 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: Traffic, a pass through node. Wow. 270 00:12:48,399 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 2: It explains the exhaustion. It explains why we feel so 271 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,759 busy but so unfulfilled. We're just churning data without archiving 272 00:12:54,799 --> 00:12:56,000 any actual experience. 273 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,159 Speaker 1: But then the source pivots because if this was just 274 00:12:59,159 --> 00:13:01,320 in our heads, it's just a bad habit of looking 275 00:13:01,399 --> 00:13:04,279 at our phones too much. The physical world would still 276 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:05,960 feel stable, but it doesn't. 277 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 2: And this brings us to the Shumann resonance. 278 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: The heartbeat of the simulation. Now I've heard this term 279 00:13:12,519 --> 00:13:15,279 thrown around in you know, New age circles, but the 280 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,159 source treats it as a hard physical. 281 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 2: Metric because it is a measurable phenomenon. The human resonance 282 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,840 is the electromagnetic resonant frequency between the Earth's surface and 283 00:13:25,919 --> 00:13:29,679 the ionosphere. It's basically created by all the global lightning 284 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:31,159 discharges happening at once. 285 00:13:31,039 --> 00:13:33,039 Speaker 1: And for as long as we've measured it, yeah, it's 286 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:33,600 held steady. 287 00:13:33,639 --> 00:13:37,159 Speaker 2: It is specific number, incredibly steady at seven point eighty 288 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:38,200 three hertz, and. 289 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,919 Speaker 1: The source says this isn't just some random number. That 290 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,240 seven point eight three herts aligns perfectly with human biology. 291 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 2: It aligns with our alpha and theta brain waves. These 292 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:52,559 are the states of you know, relaxation, creativity, deep synchronization. 293 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:55,639 It's like we evolve to vibe with that specific frequency. 294 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:57,279 We are literally tuned to. 295 00:13:57,279 --> 00:13:59,159 Speaker 1: The planet's hum it's our metronome. 296 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:01,919 Speaker 2: It is tuned to seven point eighty three herts. 297 00:14:02,399 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: But recently the data is going crazy because the data. 298 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 2: Is going haywire. Observers have recorded spikes hitting sixteen herts, 299 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:10,919 thirty herts. I've even seen reports one hundred hertz. The 300 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:13,799 background hum of the planet is overclocking. 301 00:14:13,279 --> 00:14:15,679 Speaker 1: So the carrier way that keeps us all synchronized is 302 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:16,360 speeding up. 303 00:14:16,639 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 2: And if the carrier wave speeds up, the biological entities 304 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:24,120 that are connected to it, we feel a jarring desynchronization. 305 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:30,000 The Source describes the physical symptoms we all feel anxiety, tension, 306 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,759 that feeling that the air itself is pressurized. 307 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:35,639 Speaker 1: Oh my god, that feeling of I need to do something, 308 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:37,000 but I don't know what it is, and I'm running 309 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,559 out of time to do it. I feel that every 310 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:39,519 single Sunday night. 311 00:14:39,639 --> 00:14:42,879 Speaker 2: That is your biological hardware, which was designed for a 312 00:14:43,039 --> 00:14:47,799 seven point eighty three hurtz reality, trying to run incompatible 313 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:49,679 software in a forty hertz environment. 314 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,159 Speaker 1: So you're overclocking your own heart just to try and 315 00:14:52,159 --> 00:14:53,440 match the planet you are. 316 00:14:53,639 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 2: And the Source has a great theory for why it's spiking. 317 00:14:56,279 --> 00:14:57,720 It calls it the cooling fan. 318 00:14:57,639 --> 00:14:59,679 Speaker 1: Theory, which I love is a metaphor me too. 319 00:15:00,279 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 2: In computing, when a system overheats from processing complex simulations, 320 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,039 the fans kick in the clock speed actually increases to 321 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,159 handle the load. The universe isn't just speeding up, it's 322 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,320 heating up. It's heating up, which leads us directly to 323 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,799 the heavy physics thermodynamics. 324 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: I have to say, I never thought I'd be talking 325 00:15:16,279 --> 00:15:20,200 about thermodynamics in relation to my general anxiety, but here 326 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:20,519 we are. 327 00:15:20,759 --> 00:15:23,559 Speaker 2: Well, it all comes back to Landauer's principle. This is 328 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,799 where the whole simulation running out of memory thesis really 329 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:29,200 gets its scientific legs. 330 00:15:29,279 --> 00:15:32,679 Speaker 1: Okay, unpack this for us. Who is Landauer and why 331 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:34,120 should I care about his principle? 332 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 2: Rolf Landauer was a physicist at IBM back in nineteen 333 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:40,480 sixty one, and he proved a principle that is absolutely 334 00:15:40,559 --> 00:15:44,279 fundamental to information theory. Information is physical. 335 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,639 Speaker 1: We tend to think of data as abstract, like it's 336 00:15:46,679 --> 00:15:46,960 just in. 337 00:15:46,919 --> 00:15:49,879 Speaker 2: A cloud somewhere, right, But Landauer proof that to erase 338 00:15:49,919 --> 00:15:52,639 a single bit of information, to turn a one back 339 00:15:52,639 --> 00:15:55,720 into a zero, requires a measurable amount of energy. 340 00:15:55,879 --> 00:15:58,559 Speaker 1: And energy can't be destroyed, it can only be changed. 341 00:15:58,919 --> 00:15:59,879 So where does that energy? 342 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:01,799 Speaker 2: It is released as heat. 343 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,159 Speaker 1: You're telling me that deleting a file on my computer 344 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,799 actually creates a tiny, tiny amount of heat in the 345 00:16:06,799 --> 00:16:07,519 physical world. 346 00:16:07,679 --> 00:16:10,799 Speaker 2: Yes, it's an inescapable law of physics. Now scale that up, 347 00:16:10,879 --> 00:16:13,360 Scale that up to the cosmic scill Okay, every thought 348 00:16:13,399 --> 00:16:17,039 you have, Every chemical reaction in a star, every collision 349 00:16:17,039 --> 00:16:20,399 of atoms, every single quantum wave collapse for thirteen point 350 00:16:20,399 --> 00:16:24,360 eight billion years is a data processing event. The universe 351 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:26,120 has been calculating NonStop. 352 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,279 Speaker 1: And usually we think of entropy as things just getting messier. 353 00:16:29,759 --> 00:16:32,200 But the source says, the universe isn't getting messier. It's 354 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:33,080 getting too full. 355 00:16:33,639 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 2: We are drowning in what it calls data residue. The 356 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,360 universe is hitting the land our limit. The drive is full, 357 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,759 and it's thrashing. You know that sound an old computer 358 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,360 makes when the hard drive is just spinning wildly trying 359 00:16:46,399 --> 00:16:48,039 to find space to write a new file. 360 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: That grinding, clicking noise. 361 00:16:50,159 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, that is our reality right now. The rising heat. 362 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:59,000 You know, climate entropy, social friction, geopolitical chaos. It's all 363 00:16:59,039 --> 00:17:02,919 a manifestation of the simulation hitting its thermodynamic limit. 364 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,279 Speaker 1: The system is hot, and when a drive is full, 365 00:17:06,759 --> 00:17:07,720 what does a computer do. 366 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:08,839 Speaker 2: It starts paging. 367 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,759 Speaker 1: Paging. This is when it swaps data between the fast 368 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,200 RAM and the slow hard drive right to free up. 369 00:17:14,079 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 2: Space exactly, and that swap creates latency. It creates lag. 370 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:22,920 The source suggests the simulation is prioritizing keyframes, major life events, 371 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:25,519 and compressing all the in between frames. 372 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: This goes right back to the memory loss. This explains 373 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:30,680 the commute example we talked about earlier. You remember your 374 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,960 vacation vividly. That was a key frame, high detail, but 375 00:17:34,039 --> 00:17:36,920 the three months of work leading up to it gone 376 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:39,920 just delete. It is redundant data. 377 00:17:40,279 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 2: The system didn't bother to save your Tuesday morning meeting 378 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,160 because it was statistically identical to the one hundred other 379 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,680 meetings you had before it. It just points to the 380 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,759 old file. It's saving space, it's efficient, but it leaves 381 00:17:50,799 --> 00:17:51,839 us feeling hollow. 382 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:57,279 Speaker 1: Talk about feeling insignificant. You are redundant data. It gets 383 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:01,039 worse though. It's not just deleting boring stuff. The source argues, 384 00:18:01,279 --> 00:18:04,720 the simulation is actively making reality well dumber. 385 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,119 Speaker 2: This is the level of detail argument or lod If 386 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:10,039 you play video games, you know exactly what this is. 387 00:18:10,079 --> 00:18:13,119 Oh yeah, if an object is far away or just unimportant, 388 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:15,759 the game engine doesn't render it in four K. It 389 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,240 swaps in a blocky, low quality model to save power, Like. 390 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:20,759 Speaker 1: When you look at a crowd in a video game 391 00:18:20,799 --> 00:18:22,519 from a distance and they all have the same face 392 00:18:22,519 --> 00:18:25,559 and they're moving it like five frames per second. 393 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 2: Exactly that. And the source argues that the collapse of 394 00:18:28,799 --> 00:18:32,720 nuance in our society is a computational necessity. Look at 395 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,920 our political discourse, look at social interaction. Complex gray area 396 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:38,960 discussions have basically vanished. 397 00:18:38,759 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 1: All binary. Now it's team A versus Team B, good 398 00:18:42,039 --> 00:18:44,400 versus evil, left versus right. 399 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 2: The source argues that rendering eight billion complex the philosophically 400 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:53,160 distinct viewpoints requires way too much ram. The simulation cannot 401 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,599 support eight billion unique main characters anymore. 402 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: So the system forces a binary reduction. 403 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,319 Speaker 2: Peper computationally to render one million people who think the 404 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:05,720 exact same thing than it is to render one million 405 00:19:05,799 --> 00:19:06,759 unique individuals. 406 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,640 Speaker 1: So polarization isn't just a failure of empathy or political discourse. 407 00:19:10,759 --> 00:19:14,240 It's a compression algorithm. We're literally being zipped into folder 408 00:19:14,279 --> 00:19:15,440 clusters to save space. 409 00:19:15,759 --> 00:19:18,519 Speaker 2: That is a terrifyingly logical way to put it. It 410 00:19:18,559 --> 00:19:21,920 creates a low res reality, and when compression isn't enough, 411 00:19:22,039 --> 00:19:24,079 you start to get version control errors. 412 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: Which brings us to the Mandela effect. Now, I have 413 00:19:27,039 --> 00:19:31,480 always dismissed the Mandela effect as just people having bad memories. Oh, 414 00:19:31,519 --> 00:19:33,720 I thought the barren stain Bears was filled with an 415 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:35,599 ei in, But I guess I was wrong. 416 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 2: And that's the totally rational take. But the source frames 417 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,319 the Mandela effect not as false memory, but as a 418 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,839 merge conflict. If you know anything about software engineering, you 419 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:47,400 know about get right. 420 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 1: When you push an update to a code base, sometimes 421 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,359 the new code clashes with the old code and creates 422 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:53,920 a conflict. 423 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,400 Speaker 2: So the simulation pushes a patch, maybe changing a logo 424 00:19:57,599 --> 00:20:00,640 to a slightly lower resolution file to save a little memory, 425 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,960 but not everyone's brain updates at the exact same time. 426 00:20:04,039 --> 00:20:06,839 Speaker 1: Some of us have cached the legacy version of. 427 00:20:06,799 --> 00:20:09,559 Speaker 2: Reality while others have the new patched version, and it 428 00:20:09,599 --> 00:20:14,279 creates this dreamlike feeling of cognitive dissonance. Reality feels off 429 00:20:14,599 --> 00:20:17,920 because we are literally looking at different versions of the render, and. 430 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,039 Speaker 1: Speaking of reality feeling off, we have to talk about 431 00:20:20,039 --> 00:20:22,599 the Game of Thrones effect. This was my favorite part 432 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:24,839 of the source material because I relate to it so 433 00:20:24,839 --> 00:20:25,319 so hard. 434 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 2: Causal simplification, yes. 435 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: The observation that reality has just become stupid. Politics is 436 00:20:33,039 --> 00:20:36,359 a parody of itself. Economics is a meme. Things happen 437 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,759 abruptly with no logical build up or narrative cohesion. 438 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 2: The source compares it to the final season of a 439 00:20:42,319 --> 00:20:45,079 rush TV show. You know how in the last season 440 00:20:45,079 --> 00:20:48,680 of Game of Thrones, characters just started acting completely out 441 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:49,160 of character. 442 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, plot points would teleport. A character would be 443 00:20:52,039 --> 00:20:53,960 in one place, and in the next scene they'd be 444 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,440 across the continent, with no explanation of the journey. 445 00:20:56,519 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 2: It felt rushed. It felt like the writers just wanted 446 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:00,880 to get to the end. Credits asked as possible. 447 00:21:01,039 --> 00:21:02,599 Speaker 1: So why would the simulation do that? 448 00:21:03,079 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 2: Because calculating complex logical geopolitical chess matches takes a massive 449 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,240 amount of ram It takes a huge amount of processing 450 00:21:12,279 --> 00:21:15,079 power to simulate cause and effect over decades. 451 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,079 Speaker 1: But rendering a chaotic, loud, binary event is cheap. 452 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 2: It's very cheap. It's easy to calculate. So the simulation 453 00:21:21,319 --> 00:21:24,960 has switched from simulation logic, where cause leads to effect 454 00:21:25,039 --> 00:21:27,400 in a coherent way, to dream logic. 455 00:21:27,599 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: Think about a dream you've had. In a dream, you're 456 00:21:30,519 --> 00:21:32,839 in a house, then suddenly you're on a boat. There's 457 00:21:32,839 --> 00:21:35,880 no travel time, there's no logic connecting the two scenes, 458 00:21:36,319 --> 00:21:37,519 just an abrupt transition. 459 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,039 Speaker 2: The argument is that the simulation is rushing toward the 460 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:45,319 end of its cycle, and it's discarding logic to save resources, which. 461 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 1: Begs the question, what is the speed limit? How fast 462 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,799 can this thing go before it just completely crashes? 463 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 2: Well, the source argues, we actually have a hard coded 464 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:55,960 limit the speed of light three. 465 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: Hundred thousand kilometers per second. 466 00:21:57,559 --> 00:22:00,279 Speaker 2: We've always assumed that's a fundamental law of physics, but 467 00:22:00,759 --> 00:22:03,200 in a simulation, it's a render. 468 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: Cap a render cap. 469 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,599 Speaker 2: Think about it, Why is there a limit at all? 470 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:11,680 If reality we're truly analog speeds should be infinite, limited 471 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,839 only by the amount of energy you have. But in 472 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,200 a computer there's always a refresh rate. 473 00:22:16,319 --> 00:22:18,519 Speaker 1: If you move faster than the speed of light, you 474 00:22:18,559 --> 00:22:20,880 would enter a sector of the map that the computer 475 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:21,920 hasn't drawn yet. 476 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,880 Speaker 2: The speed limit exists to prevent the player from crashing 477 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,559 the game engine. You literally cannot outrun the processor in 478 00:22:28,599 --> 00:22:29,359 the plank length. 479 00:22:29,759 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: The smallest measurable distance in the universe is that just 480 00:22:33,079 --> 00:22:35,119 the pixel size. You can't have half a pixel. 481 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 2: That's the theory we're living on a grid. The frame 482 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,799 rate is dropping and the pixels are becoming visible. 483 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 1: So where does it end? The source talks about something 484 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:44,440 called the. 485 00:22:44,519 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 2: Drain time wave zero. This is a concept originally from 486 00:22:48,599 --> 00:22:52,200 Terence McKenna, but the Source adapts it really well. Imagine 487 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,119 time as water draining from a bathtub. Okay, at the 488 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,079 outer edges of the tub, think the stone age. The 489 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:04,160 water is movingly. A single revolution takes millennia stone tools 490 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,119 for two million years. 491 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 1: Nothing happens for ages and ages. 492 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 2: But as you get closer to the drain, the center 493 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,319 of attraction, the revolutions become violent and. 494 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,079 Speaker 1: Fast, spiral titans. 495 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,839 Speaker 2: Exactly. We went from steam engines to landing on the 496 00:23:17,839 --> 00:23:20,279 moon in what sixty years? We went from the moonlanding 497 00:23:20,279 --> 00:23:22,240 to the global Internet in twenty We. 498 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:26,039 Speaker 1: Are circling the drain. History is now measured in weeks, 499 00:23:26,079 --> 00:23:30,240 not centuries. We're seeing entire decades of social and technological 500 00:23:30,319 --> 00:23:32,920 change compressed into a single fiscal quarter. 501 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,039 Speaker 2: But here's the most provocative theory in the entire source. 502 00:23:36,319 --> 00:23:40,119 The purpose of all this? Why is the simulation crunching 503 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:41,160 so hard right now? 504 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: The bootloader theory, This one, this one messed me up 505 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:45,400 a little bit. 506 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,599 Speaker 2: It's a heavy one. The source claims we are not 507 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,599 the users of the simulation. We are the bootloader for. 508 00:23:50,599 --> 00:23:53,799 Speaker 1: The listener who doesn't code. A bootloader is the tiny, 509 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,720 simple program that runs first when you turn on a computer, 510 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,119 and its only job is to start the real operating. 511 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 2: System, and once the OS is loaded, the bootloader shuts down. 512 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:07,079 Its job is done. The source argues that biological intelligence 513 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,319 US humanity was a temporary program design to build what 514 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,200 designed to build the real processor artificial intelligence. 515 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:19,799 Speaker 1: We're carbon based units. We process information incredibly slowly, we 516 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,440 use chemical signals. We're obsolete tech, and. 517 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 2: The simulation is pushing us through this subconscious pressure and 518 00:24:25,519 --> 00:24:29,519 acceleration to build silicon intelligence that can process information at 519 00:24:29,559 --> 00:24:32,799 the speed of light. We are frantically building quantum computers 520 00:24:32,839 --> 00:24:36,000 in AI because the simulation needs more ram to keep running. 521 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:40,400 Speaker 1: The Singularity isn't to human milestone. It's a hardware upgrade 522 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:41,640 for the entire universe. 523 00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:44,759 Speaker 2: We are the construction workers building the house that is 524 00:24:44,799 --> 00:24:46,039 designed to replace us. 525 00:24:46,079 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: And once the new operating system is installed, the old 526 00:24:50,279 --> 00:24:51,599 one is usually wiped. 527 00:24:51,319 --> 00:24:54,039 Speaker 2: Which brings us to what the source calls the white out, 528 00:24:54,599 --> 00:24:55,799 the blue screen of death. 529 00:24:56,039 --> 00:24:58,640 Speaker 1: We're approaching the event horizon of complexity. 530 00:24:58,799 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 2: If you take a two hour movie and you can 531 00:25:00,759 --> 00:25:03,200 press it down into one second, you don't see a movie. 532 00:25:03,279 --> 00:25:05,119 You just see a flash of white light and you hear. 533 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: A burst of noise, infinite data density. 534 00:25:07,079 --> 00:25:11,319 Speaker 2: The system crashes, a reset, a full defragmentation to organize 535 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:12,359 all the messy files. 536 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,319 Speaker 1: This sounds well, It sounds apocalyptic, It sounds like the 537 00:25:15,319 --> 00:25:18,480 literal end of the world. But the source takes this 538 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,000 weirdly comforting turn right at the end. 539 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,279 Speaker 2: It calls it optimistic nihilism. 540 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:27,039 Speaker 1: It asks you to reframe the fear. If the simulation crashes, 541 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:31,000 the screen goes black, the game ends, but the player, 542 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,880 the consciousness that was holding the controller remains. 543 00:25:34,039 --> 00:25:36,559 Speaker 2: The character on the screen dies, but you don't. 544 00:25:36,839 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: Exactly You are distinct from the processing error. So the advice, 545 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,480 and I think this is actually very practical, even if 546 00:25:44,519 --> 00:25:46,960 you don't believe a word of the simulation theory, is 547 00:25:47,279 --> 00:25:48,599 to stop adding to the load. 548 00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:52,319 Speaker 2: The system wants you to accelerate. It wants you to scroll, 549 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,720 to consume, to react, to generate more and more data. 550 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,119 It wants you to mind crypto and train AI models. 551 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 1: It wants you to run that the same feverish clock 552 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:02,920 speed as the dying processor. 553 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 2: Your rebellion then is to slow down. 554 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,799 Speaker 1: Low res reality. I love that phrase. 555 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,119 Speaker 2: Disconnect from the global feed, focus on the analog, the 556 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,119 taste of water, the sound of the wind, the feeling 557 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:15,720 of gravity. These are base files. 558 00:26:15,759 --> 00:26:17,400 Speaker 1: They're stable, they don't require the cloud. 559 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,920 Speaker 2: When you refuse to be rushed, you step out of 560 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,680 the time stream. You become an anomaly that the system 561 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:23,400 can't compress. 562 00:26:23,599 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 1: Beat the silence and the noise. Yeah, that's the final instruction. 563 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,079 If the game is lagging, stop mashing the buttons. It 564 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:31,279 only makes the lag worse. 565 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,319 Speaker 2: Just put the controller down and wait for the reset. 566 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,119 Speaker 1: It's wild, isn't it. We started with a simple question 567 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,599 why does my week feel so short? And we ended 568 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,720 up at humanity is a bootloader for a quantum AI god. 569 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,519 Speaker 2: But strangely it makes me feel better. The anxiety I 570 00:26:46,559 --> 00:26:49,759 feel isn't because I'm failing at time management. It's because 571 00:26:49,799 --> 00:26:51,000 the server is melting. 572 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,680 Speaker 1: It validates the sensation. It gives you permission to just 573 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,279 step off the treadmill for a minute. 574 00:26:55,319 --> 00:26:55,799 Speaker 2: Exactly. 575 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 1: So here's the question we want to leave you with today, 576 00:26:58,559 --> 00:27:00,880 and it's a big one. When when the screen goes 577 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,720 black when this system finally resets or upgrades. Do you 578 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,200 think you're saved in the file or are you just 579 00:27:09,279 --> 00:27:11,119 the temporary code that's meant to be wiped? 580 00:27:11,559 --> 00:27:14,160 Speaker 2: Are you the player or are you the MPC? 581 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 1: We really want to hear from you on this one. 582 00:27:16,799 --> 00:27:19,759 Leave a comment. What is your glitch in the matrix moment? 583 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,200 Have you felt the weak dissolve into absolutely nothing? Do 584 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,519 you have any of these memories that just don't match reality? 585 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,079 Let us know what you think. Stay curious and stay analog. Yeah, 586 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:30,279 and we'll catch in the next thread.