In a paper titled “Are You Living In a Simulation?”, Bostrom suggested that members of an advanced “posthuman” civilization with vast computing power might choose to run simulations of their ancestors in the universe. One popular argument for the simulation hypothesis, outside of acid trips, came from Oxford University’s Nick Bostrom in 2003 (although the idea dates back as far as the 17th-century philosopher René Descartes). But what does this mean? And what evidence is there that we are, in fact, living in The Matrix? If it sounds a lot like The Matrix, that’s because it is.Īccording to this week’s New Yorker profile of Y Combinator venture capitalist Sam Altman, there are two tech billionaires secretly engaging scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation. He was all set for his journey in this rocket to prove that the Earth is flat.Musk is just one of the people in Silicon Valley to take a keen interest in the “simulation hypothesis”, which argues that what we experience as reality is actually a giant computer simulation created by a more sophisticated intelligence. Recently, a ‘Flat-Earther’ called Mike Huges was in the news for making a homemade rocket. Instead, they have set up ambitious crowdfunding campaigns to conduct their own ‘real’ scientific experiments. The people supporting the ‘flat Earth’ theory have dismissed years of observational evidence that suggest that the Earth is round. Oh would it blind them with the science! Behold! It is indeed a ball, take a look through this perculiar invention of the modern age! Celtic NovemMore shapes floating around:īecause Mars is not flat, it is concave! /RuCXP4EaMJ That’s about as flat as it’ll get /dx3qzcCbHQ Carltøn NovemHere’s another hilarious one: Chris Mahan NovemSome made fun of the ‘Flat Earthers’:

There will be once they arrive there in the MuskSpaceXBigHonkinRocket. Don’t miss the hilarious responses from the Twitterati:

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