The HBS hosts take the red pill.

Are we “living” in a computer simulation? What difference would that make? Why would it ever occur to anyone that we are in a simulation? In this episode, the HBS hosts discuss the hypothesis that we are just playing out another being’s computer simulation.

In this episode, the following works, thinkers, authors, texts, and themes are discussed:

• The Apple TV show “Severance“
• Sammy Davis Jr. as a singer
• The documentary “We Need to Talk about Cosby“
• The “Fresh Air” interview with W. Kamau Bell
• Nick Bostrom’s essay, “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?“
• Reality + by David J. Chalmers
• “The Gutenberg Parenthesis“
• René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
• Roko’s Basilisk
• Narrow AI
• The HBO series “Years and Years“