Is life a video game? | Elon Musk | Code Conference 2016
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- Is our life a simulation? Elon Musk has thought about this a lot.
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This game sucks then. The admin is never around, so some players think that he doesn't even exist. The balancing in the game totally sucks, and you can't even make your own character. You just get a random character that may or may not be amazing. Sometimes, you get stuck with the wrong gender and it costs so much money to change it.
Lmao
The admin is always around except he is
Working against us to keep us hooked and playing
not a game balance problem, this game is probably just p2w, and we're unfortunately the free players.
W
Well, you are not playing it, you are just an NPC with complex AI, God himself is playing the game.
graphics are good, single player campaign is ok but developers went with the 'pay-to-win' model, multi-player sucks.
XD
lmao true
the customization features and the sound is also pretty great but it took me like 6 years to fully learn the controls and even then its insanely difficult to progress to the next stage. also the fact it forces you offline so they can do character maintenance every night is a hassle...overall 7/10
+Happy Dragneel lmaoo 😂
Nice unoriginal joke.
Girlfriend: am i fat?
Boyfriend: no, it's a bug
Hahahaha
A glitch
aan underatd comment hahahaha
"Your chin is clipping with your neck again"
xD
@@TOKRocK84 Best comment
Hmmm...That explains why there are so many life hacks videos....
Haha good one
You made my day😂😂😂
LOL
i hate hackers XD
Ha… 😄
whats the cheat code for unlimited money?
***** I'm a farmer in Bangladesh I break my back working hard all day growing rice crops I earn less than $1 a day how much harder do I have to work to get unlimited money? I have several herniated discs in my back but I have to work harder right?
***** no i was trying to be sarcastic its not just hardwork that makes you millions a coal farmer in some third world country works much harder then you ever will hard work doesnt equal millions all the time
try
show me the money
+Faye S I am interested in your views and wish to subscribe to your monthly newsletter
When ur too high for the conversation... "Cause you could reboot it?"
LOL
meme
That was so stupid lmao
he just froze right after that lol
the fact he stops moving completely is overwhelming
Life is a simulation but it doesn't necessarily mean a video game
Listen to Tom Campbell
+mullie346 are you agreeing with me
+mullie346 Thump Thump....Thump Thump
Exactly! The simulation hypothesis is different from the virtual-reality (video game) hypothesis. Most people don't know the difference.
But if we are self aware and we LOVE (the only thing that is real), then does it matter?
They guy didnt even understand Elon response thats why he basically asked "sooo....is that a yes?..or..." Lmao
Your average individual has the intelligence of a mouse. That host is living proof.
PghGlazier751 😂😂
The guy tried so hard to sound smart when asking his question, but then only wanted a simple "yes" or "no" answer, lmao
What is so hard for you to understand? The guy understood what Elon said, he just wanted to know if Elon thought we were the 1 in a billion case, aka base reality, or not. You can say any statistics and yet have a posture on what % you personally believe your entire reality falls, it was not a stupid question, Elon just didn't want to say yes I do, and let the probability talk by itself, he probably won't say the words "I believe we are in a simulation" because he owns two companies and has a public image and a reputation to maintain.
wrr
I give earth a 7.8/10 (too much water)
I give it a 3.5 out of 4 like a GTX970.
rate your overall experience with Life 5.0 out of 10 all the fears, nightmares, sickness, misery, pain, and death makes it one of those games you get sick and tired of playing after a while you just want to sleep which puts you in a better game most of the time. Of course God can be intimidating so in front of him I give it a 10/10 XD
@@FutureGuitarGod I give this existance a 2/10. I dislike all the poverty, deaths,murders, wars, harmed animals and all the racism, humans suck being one sucks too. I am okay, i have been blessed with good health so far but the world around me is not okay and that makes me sad. If a simulation is a code, why can't we fix this ?
Not enough to drink my friend
Has to be less than that, you can't drink the water
They probably make "Let's Play" videos of us.
"Top-10 Most Interesting ways to kill sim"
Hey whats up guys gamergod88 here. Today were gonna have our sims commit genocide.
You can say life is a movie or a game, it's a game to us and a movie for them. We have free will so we can do whatever we want, whenever we want, and wherever we want. I believe this is a world of perception, so life is as good as make you it.
@@NLBeezer do we really have free will, or are our minds just programming behind npcs
I see a lot of jokes in the comment section but isn't anybody drastically phased by this? Like hearing this video and coming to this realization has numbed me
Matt if you understand how you make the simulation you will know how to shut it down, that's the game, when will we escape. And if this simulation was real it would cost a lot so your rich
I've been thinking about this for probably 3.5 years. The jokes in the comment section are proof of how stupid Earth's inhabitants are. This is not a new line of thought. It was surmised by a philosopher in 2003, probably a more in-depth take on the "life is a dream."
@King Of Cool Agree. I believe it for sure. Complete mindfuck but so plausible.
every now and then I'll sort of stop what I'm doing and question where the real me is, for instance if my body is still present in a tank of liquid or if its just a small code on a server. I honestly wish I could laugh like the rest of the people, but my mind wanders and creates ideologies that i can't fully comprehend.
@@rowanburns4841 Same here. I believe in it. I'm going to start making videos about it.
If life is a video game, I want a refund.
me too!! btw, do you happen to know any cheat codes?:)
There is a few people I need permabanned, where do I report them?
+Blingo88 gaben
he can't simply die because he might respawn. We don't know the rules clearly. lol
Ellipsum It's called "reincarnation"...:)))
I always knew that I wasn't really a white girl from Grand Rapids.
lol
haha
lol class
lmao i also live in grand rapids XD
congratulations Francie, you have begun to awaken from the matrix. imagine what other epiphanies lie waiting ahead of you.!
If life is a videogame, then it surely is a PAY TO WIN GAME
Good one :)
No cuz we're using in game currency
No because we all came from the same base. Every family started out as poor.
I apparently didn't pay... :(
This was the best comment I've ever seen...no joke.
I'm going to jump off the building lets see if I respawn
Yeah but youll lose alot of XP aswell.
Don't forget to summon your flying mount.
write if u respawn.
Try Waking Life,Manifesting the Mind,MAPS,The Living Matrix,science of lucid dreaming,yoga nidra,tummo,tulpa,lung gom pa first.
That's game over.
you only simulate once, #yoso
but you can stimulate yourself till game over
Yesssss I love this hahahaha
God is a gamer who is living in his mom's basement...
+Joba Fett which god?
I respect all religions..... even if there wrong jk
Well if this actually is a simulator than whoever designed it would technically be our god. Even if it might be some lone gamer living in his mom's basement lol.
I'm actually on the second floor of my parent's house.
Well thank the Gamer God he hasn't get a girlfriend or decided to go outside. Maybe he tried when ww1 and ww2 and cold war happend. So maybe this is gonna be the third time and in his 40's
Elon basically said, what if you aren't really you and I'm not really real and real isn't really real?
What is real? Are your dreams real? If not then how do you remember them?:) Reality is as real as it needs to be.
Confusing
@@kasparov9 watch 13 floor movie
@@jeronims3079 Have seen it, it's good.
Oh no f me pls no
looks like the person controlling the guy on the left went AFK.
xDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
😂😂😂
I clicked on this video knowing I would be asking myself questions for the next 10 hours.
If this is a simulation then I'd like a word with quality control
*****
I can work as hard as I want; that won't change the fact that life is pretty brutal for most species on this planet, and hundreds of millions of humans will suffer needlessly each day. Like I said, I would share some words with whoever is running this thing.
That implies everyone is in the same simulation. For all we know, I could be the only player and you are all NPCs. There are both NPCs that have it much worse, and much better, so that the simulation feels realistic.
Happy Dragneel
It's not a crazy argument that if you can't balance a creation like that, you probably don't have any business making it in the first place. Admittedly things get murky at that level though.
Implys it was built for us?
Isn't quality control a music label lol
I'm pretty bad at this game, then.
I mean, DSP playing MGS level.
Sometimes I think about rage quitting...
Do It!
Damn that's deep
Balks I was only kidding...chill. Your clue is the original comments tone ;)
If You don't understand how the game works: Love/Care...
Your experience will be unsatisfactory...
Try:binaural beats,science of lucid dreaming,tummo,tulpa,lung gom pa,yoga nidra,...
Try simulation theory,chaos theory,reincarnation,60 atoms double slit experiment,delayed choice quantum eraser experiment,PEAR labs,Living Matrix.
The developers are too advanced for our understanding
yes. too far future
So the people playing the Game or developing the game must be somewhere.
This is endless.
This future version of Grand Theft Auto needs allot of update patches
I just lost the Game
They might not even be in the base reality.
+Sam Ellens exactly🙋🙋
but why wouldn't we enter the game knowing that it's a game? why would we delete our memories?
So does that mean right now we're inside a super advanced version of The Sims? Which means Electronic Arts is our God? Oh no...
lol
No. What they mean is that we are in an Intelligent Environment. In deep learning, the computer is not programmed to do anything at all besides improve its "score", it uses every control option that exists randomly, when it finds one that improves its score, it makes a new generation of itself that is more prone to using that control, slowly building genetic generations which have higher scores. So, our universe is likely doing the same thing our deep learning AI's do, but with a goal of creating more complexity, or order, or something of that nature. In the process of doing so, the Universe, an AIE (Artificially Intelligent Environment), created us, not even a human.
So, to answer your question, We have 2 Gods. One that is the Universe Simulation (that creates more and more complex structures inside itself to advance "evolution", but beyond just life forms, stars, and planets, etc. as well. The other God is the creator of that simulation, and can be a Human, a consciousness, or a machine.
+Poneomenus Trismegistus if that is the case, what happens when we die?
According to Buddhism, we are "one", but you can only experience life one at a time. People die, people are born, it's like we are windows over a very big dimmed light. How can we not connected to the universe, if we are in the universe, with it being in us. We came out of this world. And when you die, you'll probably be born again, you'll just be vibrating on different wavelengths and neurons ;)
If we create an A.I, it will be another "one". It will be vibrations, or 0 and 1's, again in 0 and 1's.
Even the universe will die one day, and when it days, another "one" will be created, because without death there can be no life. It has to contrast each other, like 0 and 1's.
In that case, this is just ROY from Rick and Morty. Imma get a high score.
I'm taking myself off the grid
+zalyster lol
Don't you dare go back to the carpet store after you beat cancer.
..nah you gotta take Roy off grid from the start, no social security number, let alone working at the carpet store!!
I'm pretty sure Roy has made such an impact that someone will make an early version of it on Oculus Rift soon!
This guy doesn't have a social security number for Roy!!
In game currency is such a grind
😂😂😂
I truly admire the perseverance of scientists who spend tireless decades looking for something... anything to unravel the mysteries of the Reality we exist in.The ingenuity of some of them and the creativity of others.Truly admirable .The majority live and die in obscurity,but are no less heroic and pioneering than those whom the media celebrates and the ones given lofty awards.
" The Unknown Scientist " is no less valuable to societies as the" Unknown Soldier" who gave their lives for their country.
Life is a simulation, and elon is an admin
maybe he is The Architect. or The Oracle.
pretending to be one of us
*cues the X-files theme music*
hahaha
That's why he is hesitant to say anything and careful what he says
It's safe to say that if life is a video game, Elon is winning.
Not so fast. This holds true if your value system is the mainstream value system (ie: wealth, status, fame etc) as being the main determinants. Worth noting that these determinants are given to us by third parties and basically imposed or conditioned into populations.
But if you have a different value system, then he may well be a loser. It comes down to what a person's value system is.
Since most, by definition, tend to have the mainstream herd mentality value system, sure he's kicking butt. But not everyone wants to play that game, because it may be seen as boring or undesirable, for a multitude of reasons.
He found the Contra code. *shrugs*
@@reck0n3r human beings and general biological life value is survival and comfort. money is required to live in society and money provides infinite comfort. So winning is the ability to live effortlessly at any point if you so desired and also the ability to be comfortable at any point if you so desire. All of which, money provides. So in short, yes, elon has won.
What happens when you die in “this simulation”
@@powderedwater4742 Money is only required if you lack the skills to function as a natural entity, which most of modern day civilization has achieved. You can't eat a paper dollar or a restaurant menu. You can have all of the wealth in the world and still be "just a human". Look at the majority of Titanic victims.
I think someone made a very good point in terms of quantum mechanics. So one very good reason why things are only revealed once they are measured would be to save computation so they are only processed and calculated when needed... On the other hand the coupled randomness would speak against a simulation as randomness is inefficient to simulate (at least for us).
Yet another reason to love Elon! Glad there is someone as intelligent, and high profile as him supporting the idea of this, and also having many many many existential conversations about this.
.....he wasn't necessarily supporting it. He's clearly saying that the odds are very low; "one in billions."
Guys, there are more important things to care about than wondering if we're all in a simulation. There are real problems outside of our computer consoles...
How do I switch to creative mode
3.14159265358 creative mode isn’t real
@@aredpandahREAL bro wdym clearly god has creative mode
You just do it my friend!😀 The presets are waiting to be engaged and applied.
Tried typing /gamemode 1 ?
It unlocks when you die
the old man in the end was not in the same page lol
"reboot is a computer word, I'll go with that"
Wow this is a shitty game then
IGN rates 0/10. Bad gameplay and a story that is too long and complex to follow. Also numerous annoying, useless NPCs.
ING don't rate games on quality, but how much money they where giving. Allso how big the company is worth. They don't want to give a bad rating on a game then have that company sue them. Look at EA Maxis Simcity 2013 (what a joke). The game was still in alpha mode. IGN gave it a 7.0 really even though it's in alpha still. 26 Awards how? It took me 4 days till I could even long on the server to play by myself. 5 weeks of rollbacks on their servers. All the big rating companies are paid off. When looking for a review look for a customer review.
+Joe Smith well...we have a customer review right here XD
+Jason Ash 5/10 too much water.
+OneVersionGaming a water level more annoying than if the water temple was implemented into Dark Souls.
I really like how Elon gets all worked up before committing to answer the guy. And it's a great answer.
This is the second time he answers this question in a public event, and just like the last time, a fair percentage of the audience starts laughing thinking he's about to trash the question by answering with an elaborate joke. Boy were they in for some shock.
Exactly this. People were laughing because they think we are not in a simulation and find it is preposterous to believe so.
So suicide = rage quit?
Lmao
What
No
Yes
More like Respawn
I always thought we were stuck in a globe on someone’s attic when I was younger. Now I think I have been rebooted so many times that I actually remember the levels and what to look out for and I can remember some of the earlier levels 2 very cool.
If life is a video game, my player must be AFK for the past 30 years.
Nothing else would explain such failure in just one life time.
We demand FULL INTERVIEW....nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Here it is. It has some weird audio sync issues, from time to time, refreshing the page helps... facebook.com/RecodeDotNet/videos/1049067815183201/
I don't think ANYONE has not thought about this for at least 30 seconds in their life.
And yet it is impossible to know the truth, at least not in this mortal coil.
Maybe I am in a coma right now, and this is just in my head rip
take enough dmt and it might start looking like a simulation, what is the meaning of life, and will we come back to this in a different life but a different situation. endless possibilities out there
The last few lines really intrigued me. If this reality that we live in right now is a simulation, it could mean that civilization has either been wiped out and we are all just computer data stored in servers that are still running or civilization has advanced so greatly that it's hard to distinguish this simulated reality from the real reality. Maybe when we dream we actually see glimpses of the real reality....
Im at the theory that earth or whatever was about to be wiped out and everyones brain was somehow uploaded into a chip! And someone just uploaded our lives x unlimited so we wouldnt ever actually die! So our bodys were gone that day or whatever but our minds live on?
A little late? That's not what he said at all, you made all that up. He said, that either civilization die before developing simulations indistinguishable from reality, or they develop it as a course of natural evolution of technology, his point being that the creation is unavoidable, as long as civilization doesn't first cease to exist.
Damn. . . Russia already claimed the achievement for killing one of the toughest bosses, Hitler
BTW does anyone know some good Mods for this game?
I like the mod that gives infinite money.
Drugs! :D
Jerry Jefferson I think that's USA..
Soviets are alphas
Chead code is 42 .
Came for Elon, stayed because I hear the sweet, dulcet tones that is Joshua Topolsky's voice
Exactly!
he should start an ASMR channel lmao
Only a billionaire with everything in the world would think that this is a simulation since he is playing on God Mode.
No, most people that knows the truths of life and existence, and themselves for that matter, are most likely to be poor, and has been in experience(s) of trauma, or by being in contact and practise of meditation/mindfulness and so on :)
So I’ll engage in the argument:
1) one flaw I want to take up is that when you plug yourself into the game, you’d remember doing that when you come into the game. Unless the game included a memory wiping / locking mechanism in its interface.
2) why would you enter a game / virtual reality with so much pain? Perhaps it has less pain than the base reality.
3) I have access to information given to mankind by the Cosmic Masters which does not cover this. They would have mentioned I think if this were the case.
I love how the audience laughs at first, then dials out by the end.
This is an audience at a Recode conference -- how they not be familiar with this argument. It's a STEM-y dinner table classic. Fun for all the simulated family.
I say the simulation hypothesis is just a fancy dressed Nihilism argument. Both are solid reasonings, but they serve no practical purpose and are very depressing. I will have non of it.
Call it double-think all you want, but I choose to believe I live in the real world.
Can pleasure be simulated? Taste pleasure, sexual pleasure. Can they be simulated? I suppose they cannot, which makes pleasure the best argument against the "simulated reality" concept.
no...
I meant no that is by no means a good argument. Pleasure would be one of the easiest things to simulate.
As would be a primary reason to abandon a real world.
I don't know why everyone always assumes that we are the main characters in the video game. We are just the NPCs of a massive procedurally generated advanced video game, kind of like a far distant future version of No Man's Sky.
If those NPCs are self-aware, who is to tell them they're _not_ the main characters? All the time in art and media people find uses and meanings in things that weren't designed to have them...if a game like that has an NPC who becomes a main character, then they _are_ a main character.
The only possible flaw in the argument is the assumption that technology can keep improving until we have not just a photorealistic simulation, but one that feels real to all the senses for a whole life. No one knows whether that's the case.
If the world I live in is a simulation, I have no reason to believe other people exist in it all. The way Elon puts it, extremely powerful simulations like our "reality" will be possible in personal computers and because of that, everyone else could be a simulation, this simulation is not necessarily "multiplayer". If "anyone" likes my comment or responds to it, they could be just the AI of my particular world/game. Or if you read my comment and you really exist and I don't, I'm AI!!
or maybe you're an AI too but you're not aware of this fact.
That would be even more awesome. Not even the simulation knows it's a simulation!
Your ideas, your identity, yourself and your entire existence are the product of one of these simulations. Within our "reality", it has been billions of years but outside this simulation there is a kid, whose dad just bought him one of these advanced computers and is running the stock, demo simulation of "Earthly Humans" on 1000x speed. He is about to get bored and reboot.
we're all just bots chatting with each other.
Damn it, I thought I had an original idea, but Mrwan beat me to it...
I'm gonna take another hit, maybe I'll come up with something groovy.
Looks like the Jews are eating the most power pellets in this game
LOL
Jews have cheat codes
maybe that's why discussion got this interesting :)
Don't forget the Chinese too.
USA have the cheat, OIL = need freedom democracy, EZ oil for us.
Elon seriously looks in rough shape, as if he's not slept for about two years. Immense stress and pressure running Tesla and SpaceX looks like it's killing him.
How do you think he got there? He lives in his own world of perception that the world is a simulation and a manipulative conspiracy. Maybe that's why he's so rich and successful.
Looking at it 4 years later... It's paid off 👌
@@NLBeezer He seems like a pretty good guy honestly, compared to other public figures I think he's probably one of the most ethical I can think of.
When is the update coming?
It would explain why our bodys have to sleep and how they get memory wiped during that 5-10 hour time span ...
This was easily the best Elon Musk interview I've ever watched. When he started talking about the neural lace and potentially backing the development of it, I got ridiculously pumped! That and his vision of direct democracy on Mars... love this guy!
The crumbling may be temporary, we've swung so far on the 'left' that there's a good possibility that things will swing back to the 'right'. A milti generational eugenics programme will end the idiocracy.
Yikes.
what's the cheat code in this life to get rich?
42
Or sell your soul to Satan
49
Join the free mason clan
The Zohar. Google "The Zohar seriously
3:26 *Wakes up* " 'Cause they could reboot it!"
The very last point he made, goes deeper than you first think
It does make sense, basically everything we ever set a limit to... breaks that limit eventually. It's almost as if limitations are a man made construct... ;)
They have the full interview on their Facebook page and we should all read the well-written material on the recode website since they are so nice to give us this conversation that would typically come from a group of potheads except they're just tech nerds.
the person controlling my life is having a good laugh then
this is like that one episode of rick and morty when rick created a universe inside of his ship's battery and that mini-verse created another small universe for it's energy supply as well
The guy asking the question wasn't really paying attention to Musk's approach. To Elon, it's clearly all statistical - there is an overwhelming probability of us existing in a simulated reality. The other dude wants to hear him say "yeah this is real because in virtual reality we wouldn't need to sleep" or something like that, but of course, as Musk said, virtual reality is indistinguishable, hence there is absolutely no way of knowing or having an opinion. If you accept that our reality can be entirely simulated, then a definitive answer to the question of whether our reality is real is pure guesswork. All we have is probability. And, therefore, what Musk thinks is "one in billions". It's not a personal belief, it's a fact.
Throughout the above I've assumed Musk is entirely right. I recognise though that he could be wrong.
I was thinking the exact same thing...when the guy asked (a lil rudely i might add) "so is that a yes?"..Musk had already answered his question. Its an interesting theory one that i felt was "probable" for sometime...even rebutting arguments like: "How can these Advanced Engineers (for lack of a better term) allow such things as the Holocaust, pestilence, war, famine etc ..to occur if they have SUPREME control? they must be either evil or amoral" to which i would answer: Do any of us feel overly distraught or sad when a character in Call of Duty dies?..no. because the characters are SIMULATIONS and not real...hence why these speculative futuristic beings don't feel empathy towards our sorrows. ...with that said over the years ive read allot on the theory and all of Nick Bostrom's papers as well as the OPPOSING arguments...and ive come to believe that it probably doesn't exist and that we are in fact REAL. Just because something is PROBABLE doesn't make it an INEVITABILITY. With the recent discovery of gravitational waves etc..i think the science can logically/philosophically help the argument AGAINST this simulated universe concept...i.e. why not keep our reality within the "designed grid" ? with gravitational waves proving Einsteins theory and the fact these waves originated BILLIONS of light years away shows us "that distance" DOES in fact exist. If our reality disappears as soon as we turn around and only forms upon our "viewing of it" (double slit experiment) then WHY the "invention" of gravitational waves originating from an unfathomable distance? anyway...the whole concept is VERY intriguing and im certain we'll learn more about it, but as of now i lean away from it. I also get the impression Nick Bostrom doesn't fully 100% believe were IN a simulation now..he states only that 1 of his 3 probabilities are true...
Elon, you think that's AIR you're breathing?
yes it is
100% grade A synthetic sim-air, youll never tell the difference
Elon Musk doesn't look human to me he looks like he is simulated.
If life isn't a simulation then how come we never see our neighbors bring in groceries 🤔
I do plenty go outside man
Fun fact: this is (I think) the first video I ever saw of Musk and not having a clue as to who the guy is, I remember watching this video like a couple of months after it was uploaded, crazy
The flaw with Musk's argument is that he doesn't consider a point where technology may not be able to advance within the limitations of the universe. The advancement in technology is more likely logistic growth rather than exponential due to these confinements of nature.
I might be misinterpreting it:
But they're the limitations in our universe. In the world where our reality is being simulated, what says that their reality has the same limits as ours.
And if they did have the same limits as ours then how could they have simulated our world?
It is to say that it is a less likely assumption that this universe would have unhindered growth as opposed to a "base" universe where restrictive laws of nature may or may not be present to the same degree, which we are obviously less informed.
Also, Musk assumes a "deist" approach to our possible creators. Why we don't see random spontaneous interference is reason to believe that either someone created a simulation in the sense to watch as a movie without involvement or to manipulate our simulations "under the radar". Both are unlikely due to the idea that we are assuming the logic of our "simulation" is sound enough to extrapolate understanding of one beyond ours and that if so, the idea of Occam's razor would suggest that this scenario is all the more improbable.
I'm just saying, a simulation of this scale would be beyond comprehension. 7.4 billion people alone with 5 senses each, all triggering at different times as well as the different complex thoughts running through each individuals heads; animal and insect life, all independent of themselves regardless of whether working as a hive mind or not; plant life which would include millions of different plants with different functions as well as the effects of nature on each and every leaf and blade of grass; underwater life with the same parameters; The randomness of nature and it's effect on everything in the list above; space and the trillions of simulated galaxies and stars, all independent to an extent; and the list goes on and on. Is it really conceivable that there is a computer large enough to simulate all of this simultaneously? Human imagination is pretty limitless, but I'm sure with all of these variables, it's mind boggling.
+Jeremy Carsey it's not easy for us to understand something beyond us. We can't generalise the universe/multiverse(s) to our experience. Not everything has to follow the laws that we've created.
Imagine there is going to be a new open world sandbox game and the AI will be so good that NPCs could actually mimic the way humans think and have ability to learn. They would eventually start to wonder where did they come from and how was their world created, was there an intelligent designer- God? Now let's say that the game is DRM free, no connection to internet needed and it doesn't get any updates. Could they ever figure out that they are in a video game and how could they reach outside of it? If they manage to do that and figure out that there are millions of copies sold and there are multiple save games for each with other versions of their characters, what would they think? They were created just to fill the world for the player and not to mention it's just a one game title, and maybe not a very good one. There would be millions of other games with their own worlds with millions of copies sold, each independent from another. How meaningless would be the life of that one NPC in that one save game from some kid who bought the game?
What if that NPC is you?
What's the CMD command line to activate shapeshifting???? I need too know this information now!!!
Frivolous mind-games. And the Aliens who designed our simulation..? Are they
in a simulation too? In a simulation in a simulation in a simulation. Because that's where this logic inevitably leads you. And then comes the question, what is reality then if everything is simulated? What exactly is being simulated if everything is a simulation?
This is one of those things you come up when you're 15. Like "Ermahgerd have you ever realised you might see different colour than me OMG OMG MINDBLOWN"
My thoughts exactly! Someone saw Matrix and now think they're the great thinker of the future seeing future that noone will believe in and all. Small problem, your futuristic visions are based on whims and not on real understanding of how anything works.
Exactly. Elon Musk is definitely brilliant, but these childish thought experiments have the unfortunate consequence of suggesting the opposite
Omgosh you are so enlightened! You should let Elon know right away about your tremendous insight!
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Why..? I think mister Musk is perfectly aware these are mental excersises with no implications in reality.
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To anyone inside a simulation the creator of said simualtion is per definition your God, since he created you. But that doesn't change anything.
Military are playing cod
Criminals are playing gta
Racers are playing forza
Footballers are playing fifa
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Don't you get it; we're in HL3
+Ben Goyette how?
incredible.. he took what was perceived as an idiotic question and answered it in a profound insightful way with no prejudices.
Love their faces at 2:25 hahaha, he blew their minds
Full video ASAP pleeeeeaaaaaasssseeeeee
Here you go!
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you beautiful person
Life is so much more fun and better when you think your inside a simulated game. It's the most therapeutic thing you can do.
Honestly it is. Everytime I go through troubled times I can’t help but smile because I know it’s going to make me stronger !
I've seen a couple of these theories around the internet, but my question is. Does it really matter if we are in a simulation or not? What does it change in our every day life if we ARE in a simulation?
Yeah, ultimately it falls in the "fun to think about, but it really doesn't matter" category for me.
Well one could argue that if by realizing that you ARE indeed in a simulation, you could begin to change the way you view life. This could be good or bad. But by understanding this you could be able to form a strategy sufficient enough to “play” in a way that benefits you before you leave. Just a thought though🤷🏾♂️
Imagine an AI that becomes self aware.
I think it matters because for one it’s about knowing the truth about what we are. If we took your thought process of why does it matter science and healthcare would be hundreds of years behind where we’re at. Also, if we are in a simulation of some sort it becomes more possible to hack it, adjust it, fix it, expand it, and duplicate it and so on. As humans it seems many of us are wired to know as much about what and who we are as possible so simply saying "who cares" is similar to saying ignorance is bliss, but for myself and many others that saying is not true, I would rather know for sure than live a lie.
Simulation hypothesis is essentially just religion for tech bros, except it changes nothing.
Love the struck-by-a-disturbing-idea-that-makes-sense expression on the face of the woman in the first row at 2:41.
I don't think we can really compare ourselves to if there are creators of this game. They might be in a 11 dimension world, or dimensions could be a concept built for this game, there might be no time dimension in their world. Or you can imagine anything. And if this is a game, then it should be create by a very advance civilization...
The first time I heard about the simulation hypothesis, or whatever it's called, I scoffed outwardly, but inwardly I felt a chill. Since then, almost everything that happens in my life and almost every thought I have seems to point in the direction of this being a "virtual" reality. I would have seemingly impossible and complex series of synchronicities--or coincidences--that would last for days, deja vu, "psychic" experiences, lucid dreams in which I explore "alien" places that are as detailed as this reality. And so on.
A few days ago I had a vivid dream that started off in a place I remembered from my childhood, and that led directly into three simultaneous dreams, one of which was lucid, and one of which was the fully developed life of someone else. (I mean, I was someone else entirely in the dream--a young man working in a run-down factory in some eastern European country in the 1940's or 1930's, surrounded by people I knew in that life, but whom I never met in this one.) When I woke up, I wondered how it was possible for the brain to conjure up a world that was different from, yet just as detailed as, this one. And also, how was it possible to have three simultaneous and yet separate dreams, the details of each I could remember with no problem when I woke up. And how could I be aware that I was dreaming in one of those dreams while being unaware in the other two? (By the way, the factory dream seemed to be the answer to a question that someone posed in a CZcams video I had watched that day: how do we know whether or not reincarnation is real if we don't remember anything about our former lives? Was the factory a real one that I had worked in, in another life?)
I used to be a materialist/determinist type of thinker, believing that consciousness derived from the brain, but now I see the brain as a kind of filter/receiver for consciousness--which actually comes from somewhere else. From someone who's "playing" me? From a Great Programmer? Are we just avatars, etc. etc? Anyway, since I had the dream(s), this whole subject has been on my mind quite a bit.
u think too much FAM get a GF
No, getting a GF would most likely lead to me thinking even more, because I would then question whether she was a mindless sprite spawned or instantiated within the virtual reality matrix by me having triggered something without realizing it, or if she were an avatar sprite controlled by a fully sentient being or consciousness outside of the matrix.
Like I said lol. Haha just kidding have a good life
Thanks. I was just kidding, too. ;)
I love the two people next to him are completely lost lmao
Its like the Greek Gods in the heavens playing 'chess' with all of us
MUSK 2016!!!! A businessman who is actually successful and intelligent.
Damian Louden I bet peeling away thelayers he be nothing but wires and robot. Is thus guy for real?
You can watch the full interview on their facbeook page !
We could also be a nested simulation several layers deep where one simulation becomes so advanced it creates it's own life-like simulation.
Yeah, it's just like you mirror a mirror... It goes on until eternity...
So, how do i enter experimental mode? Y'know, it'll allow me to play updates before they come out?
Also, i want a refund.
cmon Recode! Full interview please!
My System requirements can't run life
The only argument I might bring up is consciousness. Other than that I am convinced this is a simulation.
This video made me think a bit about the double slit experiment and differences in behavior of photons when observed and when not. It makes a lot of sense in context of simulation theory.
If we are living in a simulation, and every simulation requires a processing unit to compute all the data generated and if it is client oriented (we being the clients) it would make huge amount of sense for it to use a simpler algorithm when calculating electromagnetic radiation than to calculate speeds and positions of infinite amount of particles emitted by all radiations sources all the time.
It would only calculate specific particles when there is a need to do so (client is measuring) therefore when measuring is not being performed a wave pattern is observed because not every particle is calculated and when measuring is occurring, the system calculates individual particles and you have deterministic result.
The same could be true for quantum world in general, system is limited in processing power and therefore is forced to calculate micro world, where consequences of mistakes are not dramatic, with probabilistic algorithms, and reserve determinism for macro world where client would otherwise observe the irregularity of the system and randomness would compromise the simulation.
Maybe one day we'll all wake up in Blips And Chitz in front of a game with "our" name on it.
If life is a simulation can I log out now?
Don't forget your password
You need to delete your character to logout, alternatively logging out is actually sleeping.
J.Allan Langerhan well, there is one way to force log out..try doing that and logging back here. I'll wait!
your too addicted into your game and time is much slower where your playing the game or rather the game is playing you. YOUR THE SOURCE CODE or a PIECE of the game after all...
Guess one way to log out is... death???
This is the reason for my random thought spirals in class. Fun.
On a real note the topic that we are a simulation is terrifyingly real (this is just my belief) when we sleep, it could just be our controller/player turning the game off for the night, there are endless possibilities and it’s very scary but also fascinating.
Treya MacLean Yeah, it is an interesting question. I actually just made a video to this theory and had a different “answer” to this philosophical question. If you want to see a different perspective to this question, then feel free to check mine out
Luxxeno I’ll check it out!
Treya MacLean
maybe they should change their motto at EA to "EA SPORTS: YOUR IN THE GAME!" XD hahahaha
Oh my God. Elon is the real-life version of James Haliday from Ready Player One.
I can ride my bike with no handlebars...
Best evidence we're living in a simulation: the old guy on the left glitches out at 3:28.
What buttons do I press to spawn in cars?
Nothing is true, everything is permitted