Riz Stanford
Rizwan Virk is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and author who serves as a faculty associate at Arizona State University's Fulton Schools of Engineering and a venture partner at Griffin Gaming Partners. He holds degrees from MIT and Stanford and founded the Play Labs startup accelerator at MIT. He is best known for his book The Simulation Hypothesis, which argues that AI, quantum physics, and Eastern philosophy converge on the idea that reality may be a computer simulation.
“There's three possibilities. One, no civilization can ever create these simulations... Or you are most likely in a simulation”
Source→“if there's a billion simulated worlds and there's only one real world, then you're basically... the chances you're in base reality is one in billions”
Source→“an explanation for the Fermi paradox is, we are actually in a simulation and we think there are all these planets out there. But there really aren't because those planets get rendered for us as we observe them”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.