Foreign Policy
We’re Living In The Matrix

Published
6 years agoon
By
Alex Miller
- The creator of Tesla, Elon Musk, has now come forward and said that we are living in a computer simulation.
- He believes we are pawns in a computer-generated video game created by some advanced and unknown civilization.
- He said that odds are “one-in-billions” that we aren’t living in a simulation.
- Elon is worried that we are starting to make simulations indistinguishable from reality.
Elon Musk, the well-known entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX, believes there’s a “one-in-billions” chance humanity is not living in a computer simulation.
Speaking at tech publication Recode’s annual Code Conference Wednesday night, Musk suggested human beings likely are not actual flesh-and-blood participants in the physical world, but are instead pawns in a computer-generated video game created by some more-advanced — and as of yet unknown — civilization.
Musk was prompted to discuss the topic when Josh Topolsky, technology journalist at The Verge, asked the Tesla and SpaceX CEO if humanity is currently existing inside a “simulation.”
“Forty years ago we had pong — like, two rectangles and a dot,” the tech tycoon said. “That was what games were.”
Musk went on to say society is “on a trajectory” to have access to games “indistinguishable from reality.” He said such games could be played on any of the “billions” of set-top boxes or PCs that exist.
“It would seem to follow that the odds that we’re in base reality is one-in-billions,” he said. “Tell me what’s wrong with that argument. Is there a flaw in that argument?”
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Pressed Topolsky if his answer to the question is “yes,” Musk said we “probably” are living in a simulation, which he suggested might be the best-case scenario.
“Arguably, we should hope that that’s true, because if civilization stops advancing, that may be due to some calamitous event that erases civilization,” he said. “So maybe we should be hopeful this is a simulation, because, otherwise, we are going to create simulations indistinguishable from reality or civilization ceases to exist.”
Musk, who has had “so many simulation discussions it’s crazy,” has invested a lot of money to research into the dangers of artificial intelligence.
Source: The Blaze
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3 Comments
Does Mr. Musk really believe that some super kid with an apple computer was sitting on some unknown planet and designing a video game and letting the “players” believe they’re human beings? Are we now at the point where celebrity businessmen have replaced the concept of God with a video game? Does it get any crazier than that?
Milton Marder
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If I was living in the Matrix, then my life couldn’t possibly be as shitty as it is.
YES WE ARE! WE THE ORIGINALS ARE SUBJECTS TO CLONE ATTACK. NATIONS ARE CLONNED AND ALTERED. THE NATIVES ENNILLATED ENNILLATED! YES WE ARE!!! THE NEW COLONIALISM IS OBLIVIOUS! THE ISIL IS THE NEE CLONE! NATIONS ARE SUBJECTS TO OVER WRITE!!! AND WHO KNOWS COMPUTER KNOW WHAT AN overwrite IS!!! A KIND OF ERASER! AkND THIS IS AGGRESSION AND ABOMINATION!!!