Feeding ideology into AI simulations doesn't just produce garbage output, it creates entire artificial civilizations that reflect those ideologies. Governments could test policies on millions of synthetic citizens, and if these simulations become advanced enough, their inhabitants will believe they live in base reality, supporting the simulation hypothesis.
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I don't put too much on the, uh, um, education camps thing because whatever you— it's a, it's a garbage in, garbage out thing. Whatever you kind of feed into it will come out the other end. And it did come out of China. And it, it did. But now look, you have ideology in, civilization out, right? Instead of garbage in, garbage out. This is a big, big, big, big thing. Yeah, the, the— I, I'm— the potential for this to do policy at scale and policy via simulation, I think, is the most profound. And I think we're gonna expect countries to start to operate on this. And imagine you're a company and you can suddenly have 100 million synthetic customers looking at your product, right? You get some really interesting feedback from that. So I'm very, very excited about it. But for me, at the metaphysical level— Yeah. This completely proves that we don't live in base reality because each of those citizens and those things, once they get sufficiently evolved, will be thinking, I live in— I live— I'm like unique. And to the comment, I think, Peter, that you made that's really important is if we are in a simulation, would you do anything different?