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Are We in a Simulation

Okay. So now I'm gonna tell you what he says. The strongest argument for us being in a simulation is— for probably being in a simulation is the following. 40 years ago, we had Pong, which was two rectangles and a dot. This is 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. It's getting more and more advanced every year. And soon we'll have virtual reality, augmented reality. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, the games will become indistinguishable from reality. Does that make sense? Yeah. So basically, if you— that's the quote from him. So if you assume any rate of improvement, so if you go into the future 50 to 1,000 years, yeah, the, the games or whatever, or the computing systems are gonna be so high level that they're gonna be able to simulate the real world, and we're not gonna be able to differentiate from what's real and what's a computer game. So he's saying that humans have already arrived to this point in time, right? That we have already gotten to the point where everything is a simulation., and we are now just playing that simulation.

October 11, 201824:59David
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Jason24:20
Yeah.
David24:20
But this is my first understanding of it, so please don't fucking scream at me if I got it wrong. So basically, this is what it is. I'm going to read you one of the quotes. Pay attention. Basically, Elon Musk thinks there's a 1 in a billionth chance that we'r…
Jason24:59
Okay.
David24:59
Okay. So now I'm gonna tell you what he says. The strongest argument for us being in a simulation is— for probably being in a simulation is the following. 40 years ago, we had Pong, which was two rectangles and a dot. This is 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. It's getting…
Jason26:19
But how do you explain history?
David26:22
Because in other words, that's, that's silly. You don't need to explain. That's part of the game.
Jason26:27
I—