{"id":89372,"date":"2019-04-09T13:44:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/mit-prof-its-more-likely-were-living-in-a-simulation-than-not"},"modified":"2019-04-09T13:44:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:44:22","slug":"mit-prof-its-more-likely-were-living-in-a-simulation-than-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/mit-prof-its-more-likely-were-living-in-a-simulation-than-not","title":{"rendered":"MIT Prof: It\u2019s More Likely We\u2019re Living in a Simulation Than Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-prof-its-more-likely-were-living-in-a-simulation-than-not2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/we-spoke-to-an-mit-computer-scientists-about-the-simulation-hypothesis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new interview<\/a>, MIT researcher Rizwan Virk told <em>Digital Trends<\/em> that, in his estimation, we\u2019re probably living in a simulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say it\u2019s somewhere between 50 and 100 percent,\u201d he told the site. \u201cI think it\u2019s more likely that we\u2019re in simulation than not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/mit-living-simulation-hypothesis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new interview, MIT researcher Rizwan Virk told Digital Trends that, in his estimation, we\u2019re probably living in a simulation. \u201cI would say it\u2019s somewhere between 50 and 100 percent,\u201d he told the site. \u201cI think it\u2019s more likely that we\u2019re in simulation than not.\u201d Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89372","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}