Making the headline rounds again last week after Elon Musk basically gave the probabilities of 1/billions that we are NOT living in a computer simulation... a lot of people were shocked that a guy at his current level of scientific and innovational success would consider it a forgone conclusion that we are indeed living in a simulated reality. His argument is basically summed up as follows as best I can tell.
Musk states that if you look at where game technology was 40 years ago (basically pong) and where it is today it would be logical to think that a computer simulated reality is achievable in the next 40 years given the pace we have seen so far...
Therefore, if we don’t think that we are currently living in a computer simulation, we are not entitled to believe that we will have descendants who will run lots of such simulations of their forebears.
Musk states that if you look at where game technology was 40 years ago (basically pong) and where it is today it would be logical to think that a computer simulated reality is achievable in the next 40 years given the pace we have seen so far...
Therefore, if we don’t think that we are currently living in a computer simulation, we are not entitled to believe that we will have descendants who will run lots of such simulations of their forebears.
