Odds are we're living in a simulation, says Elon Musk

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5 points·bookofjoe··7 comments

Well. That settles it! Elon is the richest, and therefore the smartest,man on earth.

Certainly every syllable he utters needs to be reported on. I hope we get his take on his favorite organic catsup before barbecue season is over.

If he's right, he's not responsible for anything he does, and therefore cannot be criminal. He's smart enough to know that. Therefore this is not a simulation.

Nice post on the subject (which happens to mention the same "billion to one chance" quote mentioned in OP article): https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/05/the-digital-universe-...

So let me see if I can wrap my head around this...

Superior intelligence created a world with rules (laws of time and space) and planted programmed organic AI lifeforms with achievable complexity that enables the evolution of the AI's intelligence to reach the point of completing the circle and repeating the original experiment.

Oh and instead of digital - it's all programmed into organic form factors?

Creation anyone?

Something that has always confused me about this simulation idea is the number of people who believe in it, but don't believe in God.

What's really the difference between God and that which programmed the simulation?

Probably not, says Occam’s Razor

(2016)

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