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Is this a signal that we are living in a simulation?

So, something happened yesterday on my way to work. I listened to a podcast, as I usually do: an episode of the My First Million podcast with a guy named Rizwan Virk, and it was all about simulation theory. This guy is an expert on the topic. He's probably gone deeper on it than anyone else in the world.

I had always heard about simulation theory in passing. It's the idea that we might be living in a simulation. That our lives, the world at large, and the universe might not actually be physical, and might instead be some sort of simulation that's getting rendered for us. Maybe we're not actually physical, and this is all just information. Kind of like the Matrix.

Anyway, I was blown away by this episode. I loved it. I'm planning to go deeper into the topic. I just love exploring big ideas like this.

I finished the episode and went on with the rest of my day. I went to work and sat in a training all day. I've been doing this training, and let's be honest, it's a little bit dry. It's about software development and software validation for medical devices. Some of it's interesting, but a lot of it is kind of dry.

So, as I'm sitting in this training, I'm still thinking about the simulation theory podcast. And I thought, let me just observe. Let me keep my eyes open during this training and see if I find any signs that we might be living in a simulation. Let me see if I can observe a glitch in the Matrix, so to speak.

About an hour or two later, I think it was after lunch, the topic drifted to AI and AI agents. Then all of a sudden, almost out of nowhere, the instructor leading the training, a guy named Eric, says, "Hey, so has anyone heard of simulation theory?"

My heart skipped a beat. I was quite shocked. We talked about it for a little bit, then the topic changed and we went back to our normal training for the rest of the course.

I don't know, maybe this was just a coincidence. Maybe it's one of those synchronicities of life. But I hadn't talked about this at all myself. It just came up, almost out of the blue.

So, what do you think? Is this a sign that we're in a simulation? Have you ever experienced any glitches in the Matrix? Let me know.