ELON: ONLY INTERESTING SIMULATIONS SURVIVE

“If the simulation theory is true, then it is actually very likely that the most interesting outcome is the most likely.

Because only the simulations that are interesting will continue.

The simulators will stop any simulations that are boring because they're not interesting.

In this reality that we live in, we run simulations all the time.

When we try to figure out if the rocket's going to make it, we run thousands, sometimes millions of simulations just to figure out which path is the good path for the rocket and where can it go wrong?

Where can it fail?

But when we do these millions of simulations of what can happen with the rocket, we ignore the ones where everything goes right, because we have to address the situations where it goes wrong.

And for AI simulations as well, like all these things, we keep the simulations going that are the most interesting to us.

So, if the simulation theory is accurate, then the simulators will only continue to run the simulations that are most interesting.

Therefore, from a Darwinian perspective, the only surviving simulations will be the most interesting ones.

And, in order to avoid getting turned off, the only rule is that you must keep it interesting because the boring simulations will be terminated.”

Source: @elonmusk on The Joe Rogan Experience @joerogan, October 31, 2025