• @scarabic
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    Here’s Elon Musk’s argument (not saying I agree with it but here’s what he said about it):

    Eventually we will be able to create entirely convincing simulations. Just look at video games. The graphics are getting pretty good.

    So given that we will inevitably create such simulations, we have to ask whether it has perhaps already happened and this is one of them.

    And since we will no doubt create many different simulations, millions of them, the odds are against this one being the prime reality. It’s just millions-to-one odds by the numbers.

    Therefore this is almost certainly a simulation.

    (Personally I think there are factual and logical problems at many steps in this)

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      I just want to point out that while Musk likes to parrot this rhetoric, it is Nick Bostrom who should be credited with the hypothesis in its current, modern incarnation. That’s not to say it is entirely his idea either, as similar hypotheses have been pontificated over for centuries , notably by René Descartes.

      • @scarabic
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        Mm thanks. Worthy footnote.

    • sabriy01OP
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      21 year ago

      seems consistent…