Elon Musk: 'It's likely we're living in a simulation and Pong is proof'

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7 pointsneverminder2 comments

>He said: "The strongest argument for us being in a simulation probably is the following: Forty years ago we had pong. Like two rectangles and a dot. That was what games were."

>"Now, forty years later, we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it's getting better every year. Soon we'll have virtual reality, augmented reality."

That's not an argument for reality being a simulation.

Yeah, it's not an argument it's just an "implication" (and I bet the "argument" part got chopped from the article) like "If we've come so far in just 40 years, in another 10,000 years we'll be able to simulate life exactly with every character in the game made from some predefined rules, controlled by advanced neural-networks that evolve as the game plays out" kind of thing.

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