If reality is a simulation that renders interesting people at higher fidelity, spend time with them. The speaker calls this "compute maxing" and suggests it explains why the podcast exists. Governing through a society-scale simulation would be an entirely new form of government.
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If you had a higher posterior confidence that you're living inside a simulation, then if you make, I think, quite a reasonable assumption that it's a multi-scale simulation, in other words, that different parts of the simulation are being simulated at varying levels of fidelity, then the smartest thing you could possibly do is hang out around interesting people, because the interesting people will be simulated at higher fidelity. So you're basically— That's what we do already. I mean, that's why people are submitting— Well, some of us. I mean, it's what we're doing with this podcast, right? Like, we're compute maxing just in case we're inside a simulation. So, I mean, that's, I think, what Nick would say. Putting the simulation hypothesis aside, this will just be all hot takes, I guess, since according to the commenters, that's what people want to hear out of us. There's, I think, a broader point about governance, though, which is, I think, fundamentally governing via Society-scale simulation is a new form of government that Earth has not seen historically yet.