{"id":114334,"date":"2020-10-13T10:23:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/columbia-professor-theres-a-50-chance-were-living-in-a-simulation"},"modified":"2020-10-15T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T09:30:09","slug":"columbia-professor-theres-a-50-chance-were-living-in-a-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/columbia-professor-theres-a-50-chance-were-living-in-a-simulation","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Professor: There\u2019s a 50% Chance We\u2019re Living in a Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/columbia-professor-theres-a-50-chance-were-living-in-a-simulation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are we in a simulation?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In an influential 2003 paper, University of Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom laid out the possibility that our reality is a computer simulation dreamed up by a highly advanced civilization. In the paper, he argued that at least one of three propositions must be true:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Civilizations usually go extinct before developing the capability of creating reality simulations.<\/li>\n<li>Advanced civilizations usually have no interest in creating reality simulations.<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019re almost certainly living inside a computer simulation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we in a simulation? In an influential 2003 paper, University of Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom laid out the possibility that our reality is a computer simulation dreamed up by a highly advanced civilization. In the paper, he argued that at least one of three propositions must be true: Civilizations usually go extinct before developing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114445,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114334\/revisions\/114445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}