They also wouldn't know what kinds of computations would be possible outside the bounds of our simulation, Gleiser said. That's because if we were really in a simulation, scientists wouldn't have any idea about the laws of physics in the "real world" outside. Marcelo Gleiser, a physicist and philosopher at Dartmouth College, told New Scientist that trying to address Bostrum's question based on our current knowledge and technological capabilities is pretty hopeless. Virk, who is also a video game designer, said the simulated video game-like universe that we might be living in - which is indistinguishable from reality for us - is far more sophisticated than the giant multiplayer online games that humans currently create, like World of Warcraft and Fortnite.
"You can think of it like a high-resolution or high-fidelity video game in which we are all characters," he told Vox. Virk imagines this as "the video game of life," which he calls "the Great Simulation." Rizwan Virk, a computer scientist and the author of the new book "The Simulation Hypothesis," told Vox that he also thinks " there's a very good chance we are, in fact, living in a simulation."
Read More: An Oxford philosopher who's inspired Elon Musk thinks mass surveillance might be the only way to save humanity from doom One scientist argues that our reality is akin to a giant multiplayer video game Elon Musk speaks near a Falcon 9 rocket during his announcement that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be the first private passenger to fly around the moon aboard a SpaceX spaceship, September 17, 2018.īostrum is still thinking and talking about the fraught relationship between humans and computers: In a speech at this year's TED conference, he put forward the frightening idea that humanity could destroy itself with a technology of our own creation.īostrom went on to suggest that the way to save us from ourselves is simple: mass surveillance using AI.
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