Elon Musk Thinks That We Are Living In A Simulation (1 Viewer)

[chet]

Another Elon thread.  This is a very interesting idea--Elon says that there's a billion to one chance that we are living in a base reality which means that he thinks that it's overwhelmingly likely that we are characters in a simulation.  His argument is that if you assume any advancement in video game technology then video games will be indistinguishable from our reality at some point in the future. 

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[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

That explains the time I was locked in a room with no doors and no toilets until I died.

 

[Apple Jack]

Also might explain the three idiots standing in the middle of the bike trail last night staring into their phones collecting their imaginary pokey points.

 

[IC FBGCav]

Easiest way to find out is to kill yourself.   Death answers many or all question. 

 

[bostonfred]

This turned dark quickly

 

[chet]

Easiest way to find out is to kill yourself.   Death answers many or all question. 

If it is a simulation, I'd think there'd be no afterlife.

 

[John Bender]

Sweet, I'm out of brillo and going to go try this then

 

[Van Dyman]

Easiest way to find out is to kill yourself.   Death answers many or all question. 

If it is a simulation, I'd think there'd be no afterlife.

No reason there couldn't be a simulated afterlife, and "death" as we know it is simply one sim moving to a different level.

 

[E Street Brat]

Was it the same cat?

 

[IC FBGCav]

If it is a simulation, I'd think there'd be no afterlife.

If it is a simulation there is no life.

 

[Apple Jack]

I think I prefer this to his AI vision.

 

[Nugget]

I hope my owner buys some upgrades.  Soccer at 40 takes forever to recover from.

 

[chet]

What is the form of the entities running the simulation?  Carbon life form?  Machine?  Neither?

 

[bostonfred]

If you die and come back without memory of who you were then is it really you?

 

[bostonfred]

What is the form of the entities running the simulation?  Carbon life form?  Machine?  Neither?

Au pairs.  Have fun as a dung beetle next go round.

 

[IC FBGCav]

If you die and come back without memory of who you were then is it really you?

Depends if the past life had any influence on your instincts or what not.   If it is a clean slate, then no.

 

[IC FBGCav]

What is the form of the entities running the simulation?  Carbon life form?  Machine?  Neither?

Something we probably can't comprehend but probably have similar characteristics in some way.  

 

[bostonfred]

Why would space lizards run a simulation about earth monkeys

 

[Willie Neslon]

https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/6daa8b92-e617-414b-bd1b-b309e5ca157d

 

[ShamrockPride]

Why would space lizards run a simulation about earth monkeys

Alien Ant Farm

 

[chet]

What's the trigger be for the advanced civilization to reveal their existence to us?

 

[John Bender]

What's the trigger be for the advanced civilization to reveal their existence to us?

Otis sticks to a diet plan and loses 50 pounds.

 

[IC FBGCav]

Skynet took over the world and killed all humans.   They decided to bring us back to study us in a controlled environment since we are such dangerous creatures. 

 

[GOB]

I saw a Rick and Morty episode about this. 

 

[Doug B]

If it is a simulation there is no life.

Not necessarily -- there are theories that life as we know it (really, the whole observable universe) is fundamentally no more than a certain pattern of information organization. IOW, there's no "reality" separate from "simulation".

 

[mquinnjr]

The matrix...is control...

 

[Gustavo Fring]

If we are simulated, I need to find a way to hack the cheat codes. 

 

[James Daulton]

If we are simulated, I need to find a way to hack the cheat codes. 

Seriously, my wife is aging at a normal rate.

 

[Apple Jack]

Should probably cut him some slack as he's been up for days launching rockets and drafting the future of civilization while cranking Tupac. Dude's probably into some deep seventh level trance with the look and feel of a video game.

 

[Epic Problem]

I'll assume that tim is just a glitch.

 

[mquinnjr]

Should probably cut him some slack as he's been up for days launching rockets and drafting the future of civilization while cranking Tupac. Dude's probably into some deep seventh level trance with the look and feel of a video game.

Live Look-In to Elon's Workspace!

 

[Mr. Pickles]

https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/6daa8b92-e617-414b-bd1b-b309e5ca157d

Exactly what I was thinking. 

 

[chet]

Link to a TED talk given by George Smoot who's a Nobel prize winning physicist covering why it's very likely that we are in fact a simulation started by an advanced civilization.

Link to a paper written by a member of the faculty at Oxford.  

 

[cstu]

If it is a simulation there is no life.

What is life?

 

[cstu]

Where do I request a HARD DELETE?

 

[cstu]

Link to a TED talk given by George Smoot who's a Nobel prize winning physicist covering why it's very likely that we are in fact a simulation started by an advanced civilization.

Link to a paper written by a member of the faculty at Oxford.  

at 'very likely'

 

[cstu]

There's no reason to worry about crackpot ideas when it's a fact that all the matter from every human being on earth could fit into a sugar cube.