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Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2606" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-chances-are-about-50-50/" target="_blank"><strong>Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50 - Scientific American</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology</p><p></p><p>It is not often that a comedian gives an astrophysicist goose bumps when discussing the laws of physics. But comic Chuck Nice managed to do just that in a recent episode of the podcast <em>StarTalk</em>. The show’s host Neil deGrasse Tyson had just explained the simulation argument—the idea that we could be virtual beings living in a computer simulation. If so, the simulation would most likely create perceptions of reality on demand rather than simulate all of reality all the time—much like a video game optimized to render only the parts of a scene visible to a player. “Maybe that’s why we can’t travel faster than the speed of light, because if we could, we’d be able to get to another galaxy,” said Nice, the show’s co-host, prompting Tyson to gleefully interrupt. “Before they can program it,” the astrophysicist said, delighting at the thought. “<a href="https://youtu.be/pmcrG7ZZKUc?t=98" target="_blank">So the programmer put in that limit</a>.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2606, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-chances-are-about-50-50/'][B]Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50 - Scientific American[/B][/URL] Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology It is not often that a comedian gives an astrophysicist goose bumps when discussing the laws of physics. But comic Chuck Nice managed to do just that in a recent episode of the podcast [I]StarTalk[/I].[B] [/B]The show’s host Neil deGrasse Tyson had just explained the simulation argument—the idea that we could be virtual beings living in a computer simulation. If so, the simulation would most likely create perceptions of reality on demand rather than simulate all of reality all the time—much like a video game optimized to render only the parts of a scene visible to a player. “Maybe that’s why we can’t travel faster than the speed of light, because if we could, we’d be able to get to another galaxy,” said Nice, the show’s co-host, prompting Tyson to gleefully interrupt. “Before they can program it,” the astrophysicist said,[B] [/B]delighting at the thought. “[URL='https://youtu.be/pmcrG7ZZKUc?t=98']So the programmer put in that limit[/URL].” [/QUOTE]
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