{"id":26732,"date":"2016-06-09T22:51:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T05:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/we-are-almost-definitely-living-in-a-matrix-style-simulation-claims-elon-musk"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:56:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:56:46","slug":"we-are-almost-definitely-living-in-a-matrix-style-simulation-claims-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/we-are-almost-definitely-living-in-a-matrix-style-simulation-claims-elon-musk","title":{"rendered":"We are \u2018almost definitely\u2019 living in a Matrix-style simulation, claims Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-are-almost-definitely-living-in-a-matrix-style-simulation-claims-elon-musk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and founder of Space X, Tesla and Paypal, has told an interviewer there is only a \u201cone in billions\u201d chance that we\u2019re not living in a computer simulation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at San Francisco\u2019s Code Conference this week, Musk said that he has had \u201cso many simulation discussions it\u2019s crazy\u201d, and that it got to the point where \u201cevery conversation [he had] was the AI\/simulation conversation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that, if we\u2019re not living in a simulation, we could be approaching the end of the world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2016\/06\/03\/we-are-almost-definitely-living-in-a-matrix-style-simulation-cla\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2016\/06\/03\/we-are-almo...ation-cla\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and founder of Space X, Tesla and Paypal, has told an interviewer there is only a \u201cone in billions\u201d chance that we\u2019re not living in a computer simulation. Speaking at San Francisco\u2019s Code Conference this week, Musk said that he has had \u201cso many simulation discussions it\u2019s crazy\u201d, and that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019,6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26732","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=26732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67255,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26732\/revisions\/67255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}