Notes on what I'm learning, building, and thinking about.
Are We Living in a Simulation? Why I Think About It More Than You'd Expect.
February 2026
Lately I've been thinking about the long arc of how we got here. From single-cell organisms in ancient oceans to humans building rockets, AI, and global networks in just a few billion years — the trajectory of evolution feels almost impossibly steep. For most of Earth's history, change was slow and biological. Then, in the blink of an eye, evolution became technological.
In only a few hundred years, we moved from horse-drawn carts to supercomputers in our pockets. Now we're building artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, and increasingly convincing digital realities. If progress continues at anything close to this pace, future civilizations will be capable of creating simulations indistinguishable from "real" life.
This leads to a strange but compelling idea: if advanced civilizations can run millions or billions of realistic simulations, the odds start to shift. Statistically, it may be far more likely that we are inside one of those simulations than living in the original base reality. Not because it's science fiction, but because of probability and exponential technological growth.
Whether or not that's true, the thought changes how I look at life. If this is base reality, then we're living at the most extraordinary moment in the history of the universe — the point where intelligence wakes up and begins shaping its own future. And if it is a simulation, then the experience still feels real, the relationships still matter, and the opportunity to learn and build still exists.
Either way, the conclusion feels the same: this moment is precious, and we're incredibly lucky to be here to experience it.
