{"id":30878,"date":"2016-10-09T00:48:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T07:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/two-billionaires-want-to-help-break-humanity-out-of-a-giant-computer-simulation"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:10:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:10:37","slug":"two-billionaires-want-to-help-break-humanity-out-of-a-giant-computer-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/two-billionaires-want-to-help-break-humanity-out-of-a-giant-computer-simulation","title":{"rendered":"Two billionaires want to help break humanity out of a giant computer simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-billionaires-want-to-help-break-humanity-out-of-a-giant-computer-simulation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RED PILL!!!!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The hypothesis that we might all be living in a computer simulation has gotten so popular among Silicon Valley\u2019s tech elites that two billionaires are now apparently pouring money into breaking us out of the simulation.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/10\/10\/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny\">a new profile in the<em> New Yorker<\/em><\/a> about Y Combinator\u2019s Sam Altman. The story delves into Altman\u2019s life and successes at the helm of the famous boot-camp and investment fund for tech startups, and doesn\u2019t shy away from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/sam-altman-gave-himself-scurvy-2016-10\">quirkier aspects<\/a> of Altman\u2019s character.<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, Altman discusses his theories about being controlled by technology and delves into the simulation hypothesis, which is the idea that human beings are unwittingly just the characters in someone else\u2019s computer simulation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/two-billionaires-want-scientists-help-to-break-humans-out-of-the-computer-simulation\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/two-billionaires-want-scientists...simulation<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RED PILL!!!! The hypothesis that we might all be living in a computer simulation has gotten so popular among Silicon Valley\u2019s tech elites that two billionaires are now apparently pouring money into breaking us out of the simulation. That\u2019s according to a new profile in the New Yorker about Y Combinator\u2019s Sam Altman. The story [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30878","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=30878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66050,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30878\/revisions\/66050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}