{"id":26415,"date":"2016-06-02T22:31:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T05:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/odds-are-were-living-in-a-simulation-says-elon-musk"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:18:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:18:13","slug":"odds-are-were-living-in-a-simulation-says-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/odds-are-were-living-in-a-simulation-says-elon-musk","title":{"rendered":"Odds are we\u2019re living in a simulation, says Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/odds-are-were-living-in-a-simulation-says-elon-musk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of those \u201ctherotical\u201d topics that many of us have had at some point in our lives with our engineering team pals, or with our research department\/ lab buddies. Fun to see Elon Musk share his views on this topic. Who knows; maybe? Last week, we learned that black holes may be nothing more that a multi-layer hologram in space.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a billion to one chance we\u2019re living in base reality,\u201d Elon Musk said tonight on stage at <i>Recode<\/i>\u2019s Code Conference, meaning that one of the most influential and powerful figures in tech thinks that it\u2019s overwhelmingly likely we\u2019re just characters living inside a simulation.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Verge<\/i> co-founder Josh Topolsky got half-way through asking Musk if he thought our existence was simulated before the Tesla CEO jumped in to finish his question for him. \u201cI\u2019ve had so many simulation discussions it\u2019s crazy,\u201d Musk explained. \u201cYou\u2019ve thought about this?\u201d Topolsky asked. \u201cA lot,\u201d Musk replied. \u201cIt got to the point where every conversation was the AI \/ simulation conversation, and my brother and I agreed that we would ban such conversations if we were ever in a hot tub.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His argument \u2014 one presumably honed in the soothing waters of many a jaccuzi \u2014 goes that the incredibly fast advancement of video game technology indicates we\u2019ll be capable of creating a fully lifelike simulation of existence in a short span of time. In 40 years, Musk explained, we\u2019ve gone from <i>Pong<\/i> to massively multiplayer online games with millions of simultaneous players, games with photorealistic graphics, and stand now on the cusp of a new wave of virtual and augmented reality experiences.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/6\/2\/11837874\/elon-musk-says-odds-living-in-simulation\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/6\/2\/11837874\/elon-musk-says-odd...simulation<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those \u201ctherotical\u201d topics that many of us have had at some point in our lives with our engineering team pals, or with our research department\/ lab buddies. Fun to see Elon Musk share his views on this topic. Who knows; maybe? Last week, we learned that black holes may be nothing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1902,33,2019,6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-bioengineering","category-cosmology","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26415","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61654,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26415\/revisions\/61654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}