{"id":26375,"date":"2016-06-02T10:47:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T17:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/elon-musk-believes-we-are-probably-characters-in-some-advanced-civilizations-video-game"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:18:26","slug":"elon-musk-believes-we-are-probably-characters-in-some-advanced-civilizations-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/elon-musk-believes-we-are-probably-characters-in-some-advanced-civilizations-video-game","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk believes we are probably characters in some advanced civilization\u2019s video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-believes-we-are-probably-characters-in-some-advanced-civilizations-video-game.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t believe me? Here\u2019s Musk\u2019s argument in full:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The strongest argument for us being in a simulation probably is the following. Forty years ago we had pong. Like, two rectangles and a dot. That was what games were.<\/p>\n<p>Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously, and it\u2019s getting better every year. Soon we\u2019ll have virtual reality, augmented reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/6\/2\/11837608\/elon-musk-simulation-argument?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=article%25253Atop&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook\">http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/6\/2\/11837608\/elon-musk-simulation-ar...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t believe me? Here\u2019s Musk\u2019s argument in full: The strongest argument for us being in a simulation probably is the following. Forty years ago we had pong. Like, two rectangles and a dot. That was what games were. Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously, and it\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,2019,1509,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-elon-musk","category-entertainment","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26375","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61667,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26375\/revisions\/61667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}