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I'm getting a bit tired of reading this 'Elon Musk says we live in a simulation'. No he didn't! At least he wasn't the first one to say it. The idea isn't his.
by devnonymous 10y ago
I'm getting a bit tired of reading this 'Elon Musk says we live in a simulation'. No he didn't! At least he wasn't the first one to say it. The idea isn't his. The philosophical idea has been around since when people started questioning existence and actual theoretical basis of living in a computer simulation argument has been around since well 2001.
http://www.simulation-argument.com http://www.simulation-argument.com
- bbcbasic 10y agoThe Matrix film came out 1999 iirc.
- devnonymous 10y agoYes it did and that's between Plato[1] or earlier and Bostrom[2] and later, which was essentially my point. You really should have visited the link in my comment before making that observation. I was speaking about the theoretical basis of the idea. Elon Musk's caution about AI comes from the book superintelligence[3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dangers,_Strategies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dang...