Why Elon Musk says we're living in a simulation
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Published 2016-08-15
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Elon Musk thinks we are living in a simulated reality. Nick Bostrom think those chances are more around 20 percent. The chances of human kind participating in a simulated reality is broken down into three options: 1) humans go extinct before we are able to run a simulation of this size. 2) Humans are uninterested in running ancestor simulations. 3) We are currently participating in the simulation.
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All Comments (21)
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Don’t get scared if you see a ghost It’s just someone in spectator mode
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Well simulation or not, if I don't pay my bills my lights go out.
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When you walk into a room and forget what you were going to do, the simulators just cancelled your action.
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Whoever is controlling me, send me back to the character creator screen
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Bro grandma ain’t dead she just got the banned by an admin
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That explains why I always lag when talking to my crush
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I told my mom this and she was like "well even if it's true, what does it matter to us?" and it just left me speechless. She's right, it doesn't matter if we are or aren't
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To the creators of our simulation game: Can you please delete the school update? Or at least put it on easy mode-
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The guy controlling me probably clicked randomize while creating me, shrugged, and clicked save.
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Dinosaurs were removed from the game for being op
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And I thought I was the only one thinking all this in my entire childhood. I feel better now.
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Imagine someone left the simulation running, came back and realized that we are self aware and with the fact that we think we're in a simulation
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who ever is controlling us can someone remind them there anti virus supscription has ran out :(
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So when Hitler killed himself it was just the player rage quitting?
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It’s all fun and games until they delete our save file.
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The dude controlling me is on another level of high I swear
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bad comment
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If life is a simulation, people born into rich families are just playing in creative mode
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My friend once said in the cafeteria, and I quote, "If this is a simulation, then you guys are the worst simulation friends." We all busted out laughing. Good times...
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I always love the comments. They make me enjoy how different people are. Different people from different places. You guys are funny, witty, fast to jump and quick to land. If people walked around in real life with their awesome online personalities, paired with some weed 😎, I think we could end racism lol. Or come close.
