Brin: Humans Lack Capacity to Reason About Higher-Level Simulations
Sergey Brin · DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis + Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: AGI by 2030? · May 21, 2025 · at 28:52
Google co-founder Sergey Brin shares his skepticism regarding anthropocentric assumptions behind popular simulation hypothesis theories.
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“I think that we're taking a very anthropocentric view, like when we say simulation in the sense that some kind of conscious being is running a simulation that we are then in, and that, that they have some kind of semblance of desire and consciousness that's similar to us. I think that's where it kind of breaks down for me. So I just don't think that we're really equipped to reason About sort of one level up in the hierarchy.”
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