Elon Musk thinks we are most likely living in a Simulated Reality

[sagesnow]

"there is only a one in a billion chance that we are living in the "base reality". He postulates that virtual reality will become so realistic that we will soon be unable to distinguish it from the real thing. And, the Simulated Reality will continue making another Simulated Reality and so on...

[Nitram]

1. I love pseudo-scientists who put an exact figure to the odds on something they have absolutely

no way of knowing. The guy may be smart, but he obviously has his limitations. The odds are a trillion to one that Elon Musk is right about this.

[virtualobserver]

3. I think that the odds are 50/50 that you are right about Elon Musk.....

My belief though, is that any simulation as complex as this one would have to be would be pointless.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

5. More like gazillion-to-one odds... Elon is a genius, but, WAYYY off base here.

[sagesnow]

16. Elon Musk is far from the only person who believes in the Holographic Universe.

Here's another video with a good overview of Quantum science behind this hypothesis:

[Nitram]

21. Whether or not you "believe" in it, there is no basis upon which to establish the odds

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of its existence.

[Nitram]

22. Belief that we are experiencing a simulated reality is the same as believing that God created

this universe. Can't be proved, can't be disproved. Just a belief.

[Me.]

2. Infinity

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[The Wielding Truth]

4. Okay, Russians. Get out of my mind! Gees, this is so out there. I'm getting off line now.

[Loyd]

6. And people are counting on this guy to get them to Mars???

[PJMcK]

7. This is all just a simulation?

With everything wrong in our world, I have only one question:

What idiot dreamed up this version?

[sagesnow]

14. You ( and your friends) may have chose to enter this mutuall

mutually shared simulated experience in order to learn and evolve. According to this Biologist and Physicist:

[sagesnow]

17. You dreamed up this version.

"You create and perceive the world simultaneously. Your mind does this so well you are not even aware of it." Dom Cobb in the movie Inception.

[PJMcK]

18. Shitty movie, actually

After all, the ending is basically, "and then I woke up."

Great special effects, though.

[sagesnow]

19. IMHO, Inception was a complex and interesting movie.

If I recall, Dom was trying to get an idea into a wealthy businessman's subconscious to get him to sell or dismember his father's company. I had to do some research on the web to understand it all:
http://www.thisisbarry.com/single-post/2015/09/15/Inception-2010-Explained

[LunaSea]

8. Probably not.

But now researchers say they've sussed out the whole situation for us. Theoretical physicists Zohar Ringel and Dmitry Korvizhini, who are based at Racah Institute of Physics Hebrew University in Israel and Oxford University in the United Kingdom, claim to prove the concreteness of our reality in a recent Scientific Advances study.
To understand what they found, it helps to first recognize what a computer is: it's essentially a machine that performs calculations. In order for a computer to simulate reality, then, the machine would need to have enough power to actually create the phenomena that we experience within its simulated environment. What the researchers discovered, however, is that storing the information required to simulate certain behaviors of even a couple hundred electrons would take more atoms than exist in the universe. For better or for worse, this world is real. Probably.

https://www.popsci.com/quantum-hall-computer-simulation

"Physicists have pointed out that quantum physics makes this incredibly unlikely, given electrons and atoms aren't tiny balls whizzing predictably through space."

https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-complexity-rules-out-our-universe-as-a-computer-simulation

[paulkienitz]

9. smart people often believe dumb things

because they can out-argue people who might talk sense into them, so their dumber ideas don't get checked.

That said, I think Musk is more on the ball than, say, Mark Zuckerberg about what we have to watch out for with the development of AI.

[yallerdawg]

10. I had a PhD of Philosophy instructor...

point out that what each of us sees as reality could be "merely the dreams of giant yellow slugs swimming in the seas of Jupiter."

He then went on and taught us how we could not disprove this.

You need drugs?

[paulkienitz]

12. there's a lot we can't disprove

For instance, if I were a member of a cult which taught that people like me have genuine subjective consciousness and feelings, but people like you just act out similar behaviors without being conscious of them, you would have no way to disprove it. There's a long list of philosophical positions such as that which are utter crap but not disprovable.

[yallerdawg]

15. Yep. Thinking about things is highly overrated.

Especially when it has no utility.

[WinkyDink]

11. "It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between

light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone."

[sandensea]

13. I'll have to show this to my girlfriend sometime.

I always tell her she's imagining things.

[paleotn]

20. Ummm, no.

Elon.....please go have a chat with Occam about his razor. He will clue you in to the law or parsimony.

I hope he's not going all Howard Hughs on us.

[tclambert]

23. And the kid who's playing this version of the Sims is a real dick.

That explains how this universe got so screwed up that Donald Trump could golf his way into the White House.