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Title: Elon Musk thinks the odds are strong that we are living in a simulated reality
Post by: littleman on July 18, 2017, 12:15:59 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KK_kzrJPS8

I am not sure if I would live any different if I knew we were.

Title: Re: Elon Musk thinks the odds are strong that we are living in a simulated reality
Post by: Mackin USA on July 18, 2017, 11:25:49 AM

I DO NOT & NEVER HAVE Played a video game ;)

Title: Re: Elon Musk thinks the odds are strong that we are living in a simulated reality
Post by: ergophobe on July 18, 2017, 05:10:10 PM

This is basically why I didn't take many philosophy courses in college. I had thought I would, because I thought there one would find big answers. Then I took a couple and realized that there one found round and round thinking with unsatisfying "outs" for various problems.

I think, therefore I am. Or perhaps, I think, therefore I am a subroutine in a simulated reality. And as LM says, what difference does it make? If starvation will be unpleasant, does it matter whether it's a simulation?

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