{"id":22763,"date":"2016-02-25T16:13:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T00:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-video-game-that-made-elon-musk-question-whether-our-reality-is-a-simulation"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:07:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:07:14","slug":"the-video-game-that-made-elon-musk-question-whether-our-reality-is-a-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-video-game-that-made-elon-musk-question-whether-our-reality-is-a-simulation","title":{"rendered":"The Video Game that Made Elon Musk Question Whether Our Reality is a Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-video-game-that-made-elon-musk-question-whether-our-reality-is-a-simulation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In June, a team of programmers will release a ground-breaking new video game called <i>No Man\u2019s Sky<\/i>, which uses artificial intelligence and procedural generation to self-create an entire cosmos full of planets. Running off 600,000 lines of code, the game creates an artificial galaxy populated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/jul\/12\/no-mans-sky-18-quintillion-planets-hello-games\" target=\"_blank\">18,446,744,073,709,551,616 unique planets<\/a> that you can travel to and explore.<\/p>\n<p>Though this artificial universe is realistic down to the dimensions of a blade of grass, faster than light-speed travel is available in order for players to bridge the unfathomable distances between stars.<\/p>\n<p>Chief architect Sean Murray says <i>No Man\u2019s Sky<\/i> is different than most games because the landscapes and distances aren\u2019t faked. While most space-based games utilize a skybox that simply rotates between different modalities, <i>No Man\u2019s Sky<\/i> is virtually limitless and employs real physics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/anonhq.com\/the-video-game-that-made-elon-musk-question-whether-our-reality-is-a-simulation\/\">http:\/\/anonhq.com\/the-video-game-that-made-elon-musk-questio...imulation\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June, a team of programmers will release a ground-breaking new video game called No Man\u2019s Sky, which uses artificial intelligence and procedural generation to self-create an entire cosmos full of planets. Running off 600,000 lines of code, the game creates an artificial galaxy populated by 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 unique planets that you can travel to and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1509,219,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-entertainment","category-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22763","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50976,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22763\/revisions\/50976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}