Rizwan Virk

Are we living in the Matrix?

Meet the very clever people who think our world is a simulation

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Rizwan Virk
Rizwan Virk is a computer scientist, author of The Simulation Hypothesis and The Simulated Multiverse, was the founder of Play Labs at MIT and is currently at ASU's College of Global Futures.

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