{"id":121384,"date":"2021-04-09T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T02:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/physicists-working-with-microsoft-think-the-universe-is-a-self-learning-computer"},"modified":"2021-04-09T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T02:22:31","slug":"physicists-working-with-microsoft-think-the-universe-is-a-self-learning-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/physicists-working-with-microsoft-think-the-universe-is-a-self-learning-computer","title":{"rendered":"Physicists working with Microsoft think the universe is a self-learning computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-working-with-microsoft-think-the-universe-is-a-self-learning-computer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of theoretical physicists working with Microsoft today published an amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2104.03902.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pre-print research paper<\/a> describing the universe as a self-learning system of evolutionary laws.<\/p>\n<p>In other words: We live inside a computer that learns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The big idea:<\/strong> Bostrom\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simulation-argument.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Simulation Argument<\/a> has been a hot topic in science circles lately. We published \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2021\/04\/02\/what-if-youre-living-in-a-simulation-but-theres-no-computer\/\">What if you\u2019re living in a simulation, but there\u2019s no computer<\/a>\u201d recently to posit a different theory, but Microsoft\u2019s pulled a cosmic \u201chold my beer\u201d with this paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of theoretical physicists working with Microsoft today published an amazing pre-print research paper describing the universe as a self-learning system of evolutionary laws. In other words: We live inside a computer that learns. The big idea: Bostrom\u2019s Simulation Argument has been a hot topic in science circles lately. We published \u201cWhat if you\u2019re [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121384","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\/594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}