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e virtual reality just becomes your reality? Well just to make it more weird there's a new invention that allows you to feel things while you're in virtual reality, specifically on your mouth. And so Gizmodo had an article about this that I'm failing to find in my notes. But apparently there's a little haptic response thing. And I saw a picture of it. You've got the VR goggles on and then there's…

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ught Twitter so that gives you a lot of attention. But look at all the stories, the topics that he's directly involved in. Ukraine, right? You sent the Starlink stuff over there. The Amber Heard story because they were talking about his dating her. So the Johnny Depp story is even attached to it. Anything about elections, fake news, Twitter because they're all sort of collectively one story now. Anything about income inequality and that. Anything about taxes of the rich and progressive taxes isn't that story. Anything about free speech because of Twitter. Now he's weighing in on mental health. We'll talk about that. Tweeting about it. So he's in a story about Adderall. He's in any story about space, climate change, how the country is getting more divided also because of the Twitter thing, self-driving cars.

I mean and he believes that the simulation is real. It's my theory that people who believe the simulation is real can author it. And the more sure you are that the simulation is actually just software the more clearly you can see the machinery and the more clearly you can tweak it. It sure looks to me like he knows he lives in the simulation and he's just playing it like a game. It looks like he's playing it like somebody who's just a good gamer. You know if you found out tomorrow that this is all a game and that we're just characters in it who temporarily don't know what we are and we think we're real and you woke up and found out that Elon Musk was only the best gamer in another dimension and he was just an avatar but he was an avatar of the best gamer for the game so he became the richest person and he became in every story. He had seven kids and God knows what kind of fun he has when he's alone. Does it look exactly like just a really good gamer playing the game really well? It's weird how much it looks like that.

You know I've looked at my own life because I believe I live in a simulation as well. I like literally, like actually literally no joke, it's the

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most likely possibility. I can't say for sure about that or anything else but I treat it like it's not real. And my experiences just don't, they just don't seem like they could possibly be coincidental. It just doesn't seem like it. I don't know what to think of that. But those people who have said to me, this is just anecdotal of course, that as soon as they feel they're in the simulation and the…

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