Neil deGrasse Tyson On If We Are Living In A Simulated World, Future Of AI, + US Paris Agreement 

25:10 title for the video, you’re welcome

Would kill for a Vsauce and Neil interview

Larry was sharp as a razor blade all the way to the end.... He will be missed

Boy I love now he is able to communicate complex ideas in a simple way.

I absolutely share Larry Kings admiration of Neil DeGrasse Tyson! The guy is highly intelligent AND charismatic - a winning combination! He is the people’s champion of science education!

'All I am is a curious kid who happens to occupy an adult body, and when you do that you're a scientist'. Genius.

Neil asking Larry if a certain word was still hip was one of the funniest the I have ever heard

You cant help but love NDT, hes incredibly outspoken and likeable at the same time. His analogies are always on point too.

Both these guys are legends. Great watch!

22:32 - _"I just got out-geeked"_ 😂

Larry king is so old , no one alive today has seen him when he was young.

14:20 "Stop making so much sense!"... totally got me

Thank you so much, Mr. King, to asking Mr.deGrasse Tyson why peanut butter is so good with jelly, that remember me as the most simple things in our lives could have lots of value.

I was hypnotized for 29 minutes and 40 seconds.

It’s always a joy to hear Tyson.

I could listen to these commentaries, forever This is Absolutely excellent. It opens up so many avenues.

"Oh great programmer in your parents basement, I beseech thee, grant my consciousness program unfettered access to all of your .EXE files, so that I might bend the direction of this simulation to my will."

I f**king love Neil deGrasse Tyson. An idol who shares many of my beliefs and just has such a good grasp on the most interesting things.

"Neil DeGrasse joins us from Norway" I am so sorry that I did not have the opportunity to go to Trondheim and listen to him. He really is a true source of inspiration and such an educated man. He gives (us....) young people the urge to look for something more. Neil, you are one of the greatest and a true source of inspiration.

King and Tyson pair so well. I am hooked!

I would love to smoke with Neil Degrasse Tyson.... and just listen

Neil degrasse Tyson wins science debates like Mike Tyson fights

NGT: "I just got out-geeked in the moment." Gotta love that. Don't imagine it happens too often. That someone could actually out-geek him.

This was such a great and fun interview.

20:34 & 21:32 and after scenes are the most interesting also watch Up next(autoplay) We might be living in a higher dimension... but our senses can't tell yet

2:45 I don't know why, but that surprised look into the camera made me smile.

23:45 - The name of the book is "Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming" by Paul Hawken.

What a coincidence, just yesterday I watched your other interviews with him. Thanks for another one!

i wish he was my Science teacher

so when will we get another interview with this superstar? I saw 3 so far here and its such a pleasure to listen to

just binged all three of Neil interviews and sub'd to the channel. Can't wait for the fourth!

I enjoy watching these two talking to each other

God I love Larry King his facial reactions are priceless, and he's just good at what he does

It hurts, finding out that Tyson was in Norway and I missed the opportunity to see him and listen to him :(

Neil your my DUDE! Please stay on the scene and help bring science to the world

Man, I could listen to Larry and Neil all day. 😁

He Larry King got black hair again, I guess when you pass 200 it turns on you?????

How can you watch this and not smile? Two great minds.

two of my very favorite men! GREAT, fun video, and yes, Neil, I will be ordering your new book. can't wait! ty for the video

such a great mind, he's always amazing

Lovely interview. High quality. We all live in a simulation (The universe) and we can do nothing about it. Feels completely true to me.

2 seconds to heat a pizza? I'm off to Venus.

What a pleasant time together !

What a beautiful interview.

LARRY KING AT HIS GREATEST MOMENTS WITH NEIL dEGrasse Tyson, how great !

WHAT A WISE MAN!!! RESPECT!!!!

After all I have learned in this video and all of the great questions asked and answered the PB&J was the best

!! Loved watching!!!

7:10 Neil's secret talent should be considered a magician as he has magically tied his watch around both arms....amazing.

"We don't even understand our OWN consciousness!" Lol that's true 🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️😂

I could watch this for hours!!

PB&j was awesome! So funny and deep and meaningful at the same time, well done.

He visited my school 🏫 when I was younger that is why his face look familiar

Tyson!!!

Awesome conversation between these two

Amazing interview!

Lol. Neil deGrasse Tyson is awesome. I wanna be like him. He says things how they are.

25:10...As a kid, sometimes I would spit on an ant hill just for fun to watch how it would disrupt the ants and how long it took them to return to normal. That's what it feels like someone is doing to us! I've always thought we could be the creation for a thesis project of a young science major on higher level!

Okay I love the way he explained how peanut butter and jelly go together and the way both Larry and I just kinda- 😲 at the same time.

Trondheim, my love, beautiful city, amazing landscape, walking in the snow covered highlands in winter, ... Nidaros (Trondheim) my love.

22:35 Damn Larry a savage 😂

When Larry asks about something he thought he always knew but was wrong, the first thing I thought of was the light being on in the car and he brings up cooking pizza on Venus

wowww I needed this video

Thank You!!! For beeing fearless

13:30 *Basically Detroit Become Human deviants*

Hey Neil.. you just justified a god with science.

Wonderful. I appreciate this.

This is timeless, RIP Larry

I seriously get so much Deja Vu , this has to be a simulation

6:46, yall didn't hear that part. "America Inc"., which is im fact a corporation that we live in

"A physicist turned chef"! Wow I would really love to hear more about this person

Great interview as always.

I don't understand how some people hate Neil.

Neil is an amazing person from all I've seen & heard of him online, on tv, etc. Just awesome!

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Look at vertical seaweed and shell fish farms to replace fish and help bring down C02. Also the seaweed can be turned into oil as well as being good to eat with omega 3, calcium et al.

great talk...loved it...

14:20 King to Tyson: "Stop making so much sense" :)

The brain is an area of neurophysiology activity. Neurophysiology activity consists of electrochemical reaction. Thus at any given time, the brain state is defined by a subset of electrochemical reactions, derived from a large set of possible reactions. Consider the phenomenon of a. conscious thought. As at any given time the brain physical state consists of a collection of electrochemical reactions (events), it can be inferred that they are collectively responsible for the conscious thought. This means that at least in part, simultaneous events are responsible for thought. In other words, thought creates a connection between simultaneous events. This is in contradiction to the consequences of special relativity, which states that the fastest connection between events is the speed of light and thus excludes the possibility of connection between simultaneous events. Consider the memorizing of, say, the value 5. This would necessarily involve more than 1 point in space as, say, if it is assumed a single electron records 5 by taking a particular potential. Then it by itself cannot define (or know) 5, as its magnitude would be defined only with respect to another datum or event defined as a unit potential, thus involving at least 2 simultaneous events. Consider the experience of vision. While we focus our attention on an object of vision, we are still aware of a background and, thus, a whole collection of events. This would mean at least an equal collection of physical events in the brain are involved. Take the experience of listening to music. It would mean being aware of what went before. Like vision, it would probably mean that while our attention at any given time is focused at that point in time, it is aware of what went before and what is to follow. In other words, it spans the time axis. Many great composers have stated that they are able to hear their whole composition. Thus their acoustic experience is probably like the average person's visual experience. While focusing at a particular point in time of their composition, they are nevertheless aware of what went before and what is to come. The rest of the composition is like the background of a visual experience. Experiencing the composition in this way, they are able to traverse it in a similar fashion to which a painting is observed. In this sense, an average person in comparison can be seen as having tunnel hearing (like tunnel vision) when it comes to music, thus making it very difficult for him or her to reproduce or create new music. It can be seen that consciousness is a 4-D phenomenon. If it is a physically explainable phenomenon, such an explanation would involve EPR type effects and as such physical explanations at a quantum level will be involved. philpapers.org/rec/DESCAS

"All I am is a curious kid that happens to be in an adult body" You made me cry right there. Sooooooooooooo true. That is what science is all about.

GREAT WATCH FULL STOP AMAZING!!!!!

Neil deGrasse Tyson is right about questioning whether AI machines magically become conscious, let alone will have the ability to rewrite their own code and expanding it's own intelligence that way. In a lot of ways, it's kind of technically impossible without any kind of break through. It's not as simple as 'polishing an algorithm' as some will lead you to believe. As smart as Hawkings is, he seems fairly unaware of how making code write other code and improve upon existing code in a truly complex and current programming language is fairly difficult, even when you use an evolution driven learning algorithm (which is currently basically the only way we know to even do such a thing; ie. we don't know enough about how our brain works to emulate true learning or reasoning. what we have now is assisted learning and deep learning, which is basically a clever way of confusing ourselves, as all we're doing is training a database in less time than it would had we assigned them labels manually. It has it's purpose, especially in terms of recognising people or objects, but it is far from true 'intelligence').

Neil u need to watch the old Star Trek...episode: Ultimate computer....they thought they could just "turn it off" too.

Great interview

Great show

Larry king makes me feel sleepy.

AI does not care to kill off humans because AI does not see humans as a threat, because AI is not an organism that has natural survival instincts, AI simply does not understand the meaning of survival instinct, therefore the notion that AI would see humans as a threat of any kind is a flawed thought process to begin with, especially when survival instinct is something that is woven very deeply into the human consciousness as well.

I also appreciate how down to earth Tyson is also. I don't mean to generalize, but often people so ridiculously smart as he is. Even if they don't mean to be, can come off as condescending or talk in a way where they are a little self righteous. Or better yet, not all too personable. He's very personable, but also imo quite humble for being so brilliant. Often brilliant people can carry a huge ego to them or wear it on their sleeves. He doesn't do that and it makes him likeable. Or he talks in laymen terms so it's understandable to larry and rest of audience, but does it so naturally that it doesn't feel like he's doing it because us average folks can;t understand or it's because it's down to our level. But because that personable side and understanding it's more translatable and personable that way as well as it's easier for him to do, due to his down to earth personality despite being a genius.

Thanks Neil for helping me out: I'm adding peanut butter and jelly to my emergency go kit!

If we are in a simulated reality, it's still part of reality. I could argue this. But I'm a unique individual. If I'm not, I don't know it.

King looks great to be 160 years old. Sweet hair.

he is funny, intelligent, easy going and not angry

I wish King & Tyson had a weekly podcast together...

I find some strong contradiction between the acceptance of the simulation hypothesis and that of being skeptical before the idea of AI developing consciousness...

Why publish this in 2018 if it was actually published in 2017... getting me all excited & shi haha

Totally agree Buddy!

Hey Larry, how are ya? do you know the name of festival of music that you and Tayson was talking in the begining ? I have a rock band !! And we talk about stuff like this in our music...

Can Neil DeGrasse Tyson please run for president?

Skip to 25:09 for the question about simulation

Dang keep working Larry, definitely motivating to see as a young man in America. Best of wishes.

That was so good.