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Elon Musk, along with Tom Campbell and others, suggests that we are living in a virtual reality: He says there’s a ‘one in billions’ chance reality is not a simulation.
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from the web article at https://www.vice.com/en/article/8q854v/elon-musk-simulated-universe-hypothesis
Elon Musk Says There’s a ‘One in Billions’ Chance Reality Is Not a Simulation
Elon Musk says he firmly believes reality is a simulation created by a superintelligence.
by Jason Koebler
June 2, 2016
Wednesday night, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk did that thing he does every so often, which is take wild questions from an audience and answer them as if he's been thinking about them for years, usually because he has…
Musk said he thinks there's a "one in billions" chance that we're not living in a computer simulation right now, meaning Musk is a firm believer in the hypothesis that a super intelligent artificial intelligence created the universe as we know it.
"There's a one in billions chance we're in base reality" …
We've done a few feature articles on the simulated universe hypothesis, which was initially spelled out by British philosopher Nicholas Bostrom in 2003. The hypothesis allows for three plausible explanations for the nature of the universe, as Bostrom was kind enough to explain to us for the Radio Motherboard podcast last year. According to the hypothesis, one of the following three cases is true:
We're literally living in a computer simulation
There is a strong aversion in advanced civilizations to making "ancestor simulations"—that is, highly evolved civilizations have no interest in making what are essentially video games of their past
Something destroys all civilizations before they're able to advance to the point where they are technologically capable of simulating consciousness…
Musk strongly believes that, of Bostrom's three possibilities, the first one is correct…
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