Are We Living in a Simulation?

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Published on July 1, 2021 12:00:11 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCcUkGTwntY

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Do we live in a simulation? In this installment, I'll be exploring that very question. For those of you who have watched my channel from the very beginning, you of course know that I discussed the simulation hypothesis in reference to an episode of Rick and Morty some years ago. Believe it or not, that was one of the first videos of mine that really took off. Frankly, it seems a bit quaint by today's standards. I guess living through armageddon can really put things into perspective. But lately I've found myself mulling over the whole simulation issue again, and I wanted to use this opportunity to do a bit more of an in-depth exploration.

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References:
Odds are we're living in a simulation, says Elon Musk
https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/2/11837874/elon-musk-says-odds-living-in-simulation

ARE YOU LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION? - Nick Bostrom
https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards
https://www.jetpress.org/volume9/risks.html

The Milky Way's 500 million potentially habitable planets
https://theweek.com/articles/487009/milky-ways-500-million-potentially-habitable-planets

SUPERINTELLIGENCE: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/superintelligence-9780199678112

Moore's Law:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Moore%27s_Law_Transistor_Count_1970-2020.png

There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law?
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6495/eaam9744

What Is the Computational Power of the Universe?
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2017/11/what-computational-power-universe

The Simulation Hypothesis is Pseudoscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCSqogSPU_Q&t=235s

Photo of Noam Chomsky: Σ, retouched by Wugapodes
Photo of Nick Bostrom: Future of Humanity Institute
Photo of Elon Musk: Duncan.Hull

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