Elon Musk dropped a reality-shattering truth: “There’s a one in billions chance we’re in base reality”
He explained: "40 years ago we had Pong – two rectangles and a dot. Now we have photorealistic 3D simulations... If you assume any rate of improvement at all, games will become indistinguishable from reality."
Reality could be rendered before our eyes & our world could be an ultra advanced simulation.
Philosopher Nick Bostrom laid out a compelling statistical argument years ago that at least one of three propositions is likely true: civilizations go extinct before creating ancestor simulations, they choose not to run them, or we are almost certainly living in one. The rapid progress from basic games to hyper-realistic environments today lends weight to the third option. Some physicists point to the universe's mathematical nature and quantum information theory as possible signatures of underlying computation. This doesn't dismiss our experiences as fake - it reframes them as part of an incredibly advanced construct, perhaps one with purpose we are only beginning to glimpse
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