Elon Musk Says We're Likely Living In a Video Game. Are We?Everything you know is probably a simulation. And that's ok.
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Quick. Stop what you're doing and look around. Everything you see, think and feel is fake. You're living in a video game coded by intellectually elite robot overlords.
Don't laugh. It's entirely possible, so says billionaire futurist Elon Musk.
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According to Musk, rapid advancements in video game technology mean we've moved from Pong to augmented reality in a short span of decades. We've moved so quickly, and tech has advanced so much, our own reality might not be distinguishable from a simulation.
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He said, "If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then games will become indistinguishable from reality." Given that rate, he says, the chance we're not living a simulation is actually quite small.
You bet the far-out founder of Tesla and SpaceX has pondered the possibility a lot. "I've had so many simulation discussions it's crazy," he toldThe Vergeco-founder Josh Topolsky last night atRecode's Code Conference. Because he's Elon. Freaking. Musk. Of course he has.
ICYMI, sincePlatofirst floated the theory inRepublic, for millennia, many a physicist and philosopher has wondered if the universe is just one bigsimulation.
And it's not necessarily a terrifying future. Says Musk, such simulations are necessary for society to continue to evolve and exist. Just don't bring it up if you're ever in a hot tub with him. "Yeah, because that really kills the magic," he joked from the conference stage in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. "It's not the sexiest conversation." Neither is the shooting the breeze aboutartificially intelligent robots rising upand wiping us out. Just saying.
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Hey, you never know. We really might be living in a simulated realm. After all, Harvard'sOdyssey supercomputercan whip up 14 billion simulated years of cosmic evolution in onlly three short months, everything is math and, therefore, can be broken down into binary code and it's possible that God is a brilliant programmer. You do the math.
Or not. Stop your brain from hurting and zone out on the clip below instead, like we did. It features last night's almost four-minute philosophical chinwag between Musk and Topolsky. The simulation puppet masters command you to watch it and you shall obey.
Oh, and keep your eyes peeled forthe glitch in the matrix, man. And be glad you're not living inBlastar, the 8-bit spaceship shooter game Musk created when he was a 12. You'd be bored out of your gourd.
