Maybe Could Be Possible - Akira the Don, Scott Adams

I started to feel that I may have discovered the user interface reality

The reason that I thought that is that my life was working out so well

That I couldn’t explain it in any ordinary way

I tried to become a cartoonist with no experience in cartooning

Without any experience, I was the hottest cartoonist in the country

At about the same time, I had written my first book

It was a number one New York Times, runaway bestseller

With no experience at writing books

And there were a number of things that I was touching and doing and it seemed

as if I could manipulate reality

But here’s the thing

But here’s the thing

Was I manipulating reality to get these ridiculous results or, was I simply

good at my job?

How can I tell?

How would I know if I were manipulating reality, 'cause that’s sort of what it

felt like

But that didn’t seem right, right?

Or was I just good at my job and I didn’t realize how good I was so I performed

better than I expected

Maybe

Could be

It’s possible

Maybe

Could be

It’s possible

And it seemed as if I could manipulate reality

But I wanted to test it

Maybe

Could be

It’s possible

And so, in 1997, I did a bold experiment and the experiment was this

I very publicly and annoyingly made a prediction and I chose an area in which I

had no expertise

I thought I would try something that was just impossible

I would make the most unlikely prediction and then wait as long as it took for

it to become true

And if indeed I could get the most unlikely prediction, then maybe other people

would believe me when I explained to them the user interface for reality

I predicted that in my lifetime, the theory of evolution would be debunked in

scientific terms

Not in religious terms but in scientific terms

You can imagine how well that went over

Obviously, I’m a nut and I should not be listened to and you shouldn’t listen

to anything else I ever say

That was 22 years ago, 23 years ago

So something happened today that was a very big deal in my life

And it was that there was a podcast, Patrick Courrielche, he told a story,

he heard of my prediction about evolution being debunked and then he,

he brought the story into the question of the simulation

Now of course, if the simulation is true, then what we believe about evolution

probably isn’t

‘Cause you don’t need evolution, if you have the simulation

We just are here and our history is created on demand whenever we go looking

for it

Maybe

Could be

It’s possible

Maybe

Could be

It’s possible

And it seemed as if I could manipulate reality

But I wanted to test it

Maybe

Could be

It’s possible

What Patrick did is told you something that I couldn’t do myself

I couldn’t tell you that my prediction had actually came in

I’ve been trying to, but I feel like I failed at it because I’m not credible

about judging my own predictions

Obviously, I’m mistaken

If the simulation is true, evolution is, so 22 years later, there’s now a

competing theory that serious scientists buy into and, although you can’t tell

which one is the true one if either one is, maybe neither, maybe they’re just

filters

What you can tell is the odds

Maybe a billion to one for the simulation

Maybe

Could be

It’s possible

Maybe

Could be

It’s possible

And it seemed as if I could manipulate reality

But I wanted to test it

Maybe

Could be

It’s possible

So, having nailed my 22 year gamble

That I could make a prediction so unlikely

That the best explanation is that somehow I’m authoring the reality just as

filter, again, that doesn’t mean that I can actually change reality,

it means that if I put that filter on it, I get good results

And if you just think you’re happy but you’re not, are you happy?

Yes you are

If you think you’re happy, you’re happy

If you thought you went through life as a billionaire but you were just crazy

and you weren’t, still good?

Still good

'Cause you’re happy, you thought you were a billionaire

So, accept your subjective life

Maybe

Could be

It’s possible

Maybe

Could be

It’s possible

And it seemed as if I could manipulate reality

But I wanted to test it

Maybe

Could be

It’s possible