{"id":30825,"date":"2016-10-06T16:47:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T23:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/tech-billionaires-convinced-we-live-in-the-matrix-are-secretly-funding-scientists-to-help-break-us-out-of-it"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:23:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:23:53","slug":"tech-billionaires-convinced-we-live-in-the-matrix-are-secretly-funding-scientists-to-help-break-us-out-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/tech-billionaires-convinced-we-live-in-the-matrix-are-secretly-funding-scientists-to-help-break-us-out-of-it","title":{"rendered":"Tech billionaires convinced we live in the Matrix are secretly funding scientists to help break us out of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tech-billionaires-convinced-we-live-in-the-matrix-are-secretly-funding-scientists-to-help-break-us-out-of-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/elon-musk-ai-artificial-intelligence-computer-simulation-gaming-virtual-reality-a7060941.html\">the world\u2019s richest and most powerful people are convinced that we are living in a computer simulation<\/a>. And now they\u2019re trying to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>At least two of Silicon Valley\u2019s tech billionaires are pouring money into efforts to break humans out of the simulation that they believe that it is living in, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>Philosophers have long been concerned about how we can know that our world isn\u2019t just a very believable simulation of a real one. But concern about that has become ever more active in recent years, as computers and artificial intelligence have advanced.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/computer-simulation-world-matrix-scientists-elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-a7347526.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/new...47526.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the world\u2019s richest and most powerful people are convinced that we are living in a computer simulation. And now they\u2019re trying to do something about it. At least two of Silicon Valley\u2019s tech billionaires are pouring money into efforts to break humans out of the simulation that they believe that it is living [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30825","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=30825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60156,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30825\/revisions\/60156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}