Nick Bostrom: Is it possible that we create, with our limited technology, what we feel are asimulations of our lives? He says the argument itself is agnostic as to what the motivation would be the simulators. We're not in charge of what's happening here; this is a simulation, he writes. The evidence for or against the truth of those assumptions will be relevant to valuating the arguments, according to Bostrom.
Are we in a simulation? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice take a deep dive into simulation theory, consciousness, and free will with Oxford theorist Nick Bostrom. Is this The Matrix?
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