Bad news, simulation theorists — if this decorated philosopher and theoretical physicist is to be believed, we may be responsible for our world and its outcomes after all. “It’s way too convenient to ...

The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

Elon Musk, mega-rich CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, outlined his argument for why it is overwhelmingly likely that we are actually all living in an advanced civilization’s computer simulation and why that’s ...

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality ...

But the argument does no such thing. Bostrom is very open to the possibility that simulations are physically impossible; this is one reason that a simulation may never be created and why Bostrom’s ...

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File this one under "fun to think about, probably not changing your day job": a new study just dropped that suggests gravity itself might be the smoking gun that our entire universe is one big ...

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I was invited by the American Humanist Association to present the arguments of my paper “Natural Evil and the Simulation Hypothesis” at the national conference this past weekend. It was fun: I met a ...

Could we be trapped inside a simulated reality, rather than the physical universe we usually assume? It’s a tantalizing theory, long theorized by philosophers and popularized by the 1999 blockbuster ...