We can now generate 3D worlds in a few seconds with AI.

This alone should make us stop and think a bit.

Because if we can already do this now, with basic hardware, it feels strange to assume we’re the starting layer of reality.

The way I see it:

Imagine our world as Level N.

Right here, right now, any normal person can create a small universe from a laptop.

Characters appear.
Worlds form.
Things react.

And with AI, it takes half a minute.

Soon these worlds we generate will start generating their own versions.

Layers forming automatically.

Now try to zoom out.

There could be a Level N-1.

Not some insane futuristic species.

Just slightly ahead of us, say 10% more advanced.

For them, generating something like our world could be as easy as typing a prompt.

They wouldn’t render everything.

They wouldn’t need to.

They’d compute whatever is being observed, and leave the rest to self genersts itself.

Maybe that’s why some things feel weird here.

Or maybe we’re simply too limited to understand parts of this place.

Who knows..

Anyway..

Keep zooming out.

N-1 might come from N-2.

N-2 from N-3.

And so on.

No reason the ladder stops at one step.

Recursion tends to go deep once it starts.

That's vertically..

But horizontally, each level also has billions of individuals, each potentially generating dozens of new worlds.

So the whole thing isn’t a straight line.

It becomes a huge, messy network of realities inside realities.

Each of them unaware it was generated by someone else.

And when certain parts of life feel off, or jusr weird..

Maybe it’s how any simulated world behaves when the creator doesn’t bother to compute every single detail all the time.

We do the same thing with our own tools.
Only render what’s needed.
Approximate the rest.

If you look at it through that lens, reality feels more like a chain of layers creating more layers.

Each one inheriting some structure and some imperfections from the level above it.

So instead of asking “are we in a simulation,” a better question might be:

how deep are we already, and how many layers are we about to create on our side?

Does this change how we live to know that?

Maybe it does.
Maybe it doesn’t.

But it definitely helps to zoom out,

Put things into perspective,

Or maybe I'm wrong, and this is just a cool thought exercise, and an idea for a future Black Mirror episode.