Our World is a Simulation and You Should be Glad, Argues Elon Musk
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Elon Musk, mega-rich CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, outlined his argument for why it is overwhelmingly likely that we are actually all living in an advanced civilization’s computer simulation and why that’s a good thing. Oh boy, where to start…
At Vox Media’s 2016 Code Conference, which is currently going on, a journalist asked Musk his thoughts on whether or not we are actually all part of a simulation. Musk responded by saying there is a “one-in-billions chance” we aren’t.
He argues that if technology continues improving, even at an incredibly slow rate, then one day we will have the technology to create super advanced simulations, saying:
40 years ago we had pong. Like, two rectangles and a dot. That was what games were.
Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously, and it’s getting better every year. Soon we’ll have virtual reality, augmented reality.
If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, even if that rate of advancement drops by a thousand from what it is now. Then you just say, okay, let’s imagine it’s 10,000 years in the future, which is nothing on the evolutionary scale.
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