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🗓️ 18 April 2023
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the reality revolution. I'm your host, Brian Scott. |
0:13.0 | Today I want to return to an idea we've previously discussed on the podcast, and that is |
0:18.7 | the simulation hypothesis. |
0:26.1 | In particular, I want to discuss whether or not we can hack the simulation. |
0:34.5 | There are a variety of arguments that can be made to verify or confirm that we are in a simulation. |
0:36.0 | To give some background, Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom coined the term |
0:39.9 | the simulation argument in a landmark paper in 2003. The idea of living in a simulated reality |
0:46.2 | has been around for a long time in science, religion, and fiction. Bostrom's simulation argument |
0:53.7 | is a philosophical proposition that suggests it is possible that our |
0:57.8 | reality is a computer simulation created by an advanced civilization. |
1:04.1 | Here's a summary of his argument. |
1:07.1 | First of all, if technological civilization continue to advance at an exponential rate, it is likely |
1:13.7 | that they will eventually be able to create simulations that are indistinguishable from reality. |
1:20.0 | Secondly, if it is possible to create such simulations, then it is likely that many such |
1:25.4 | simulations will be created. |
1:27.6 | These simulations would be created for various reasons such as entertainment or research. |
1:34.0 | And third, if we accept the first two premises, then it is likely that we are living in a computer |
1:38.8 | simulation created by a more advanced civilization. |
1:44.6 | Bostrom's argument suggests that if we assume that it is possible for a civilization |
1:49.3 | to create simulations indistinguishable from reality, that they would want to create many such |
1:56.4 | simulations. |
1:57.7 | Then the odds are that we are currently living in one of those simulations in other words |
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