What do you think of eon musks argument about our reality being a simulation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKRuI2zHp0:
tldr: He claims that while reality would be a single world, ultra-high-tech games indistuinguishable from reality would allow as many realistic worlds as you desire - you could say for instance that half of the whole "real world" population is playing, and that could be a few billion simulated worlds running at any time. Since such simulations seem to be possible in a near future, an insignificant time lapse from new from evolutionalary point of view (compare how we evolved since pong, then imagine it 10 thousand years from now), it seems plausible that they will exist. So in that scenario, thinking of all perceivable realities, the chances you're perceiving the real world would be 1 in a few billion.
I'd add that its unlikely that since the whole history of mankind, and of life in general, has been pure hell until recently (since living in the wilderness with no food and no shelter, hunted by predators, until not having anesthetics recently) how likely it is that you was born at the point of history where there is maximal material comfort while perfectly-realistic simulations are not ready, but seem right on the corner (that would be the ideal 'game set' to allow immersion - since its almost the lastest you can be so that "we are in a simulation" guess is not THAT good.
And how would you conciliate that with the fact that your life sucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKRuI2zHp0:
tldr: He claims that while reality would be a single world, ultra-high-tech games indistuinguishable from reality would allow as many realistic worlds as you desire - you could say for instance that half of the whole "real world" population is playing, and that could be a few billion simulated worlds running at any time. Since such simulations seem to be possible in a near future, an insignificant time lapse from new from evolutionalary point of view (compare how we evolved since pong, then imagine it 10 thousand years from now), it seems plausible that they will exist. So in that scenario, thinking of all perceivable realities, the chances you're perceiving the real world would be 1 in a few billion.
I'd add that its unlikely that since the whole history of mankind, and of life in general, has been pure hell until recently (since living in the wilderness with no food and no shelter, hunted by predators, until not having anesthetics recently) how likely it is that you was born at the point of history where there is maximal material comfort while perfectly-realistic simulations are not ready, but seem right on the corner (that would be the ideal 'game set' to allow immersion - since its almost the lastest you can be so that "we are in a simulation" guess is not THAT good.
And how would you conciliate that with the fact that your life sucks.
