What's wrong with "we probably live in a simulation"
Elon Musk likes to say we're all just living inside of a video game. Elon Musk is wrong. And also a tool.
This article was originally published on my website and has been lightly edited to reflect the fact that I think even less of Elon Musk in 2022 than I did in 2019.
In 2003, 30-year-old Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom published a paper in Philosophical Quarterly titled “Are you living in a computer simulation?” The paper came out the same year as The Mat…
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