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David Chalmers Thinks We May Be Living in a Simulation (and He’s OK With It)

The Next Big Idea

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Are We Living in a Simulation?

This notion that we may be living in a simulation is kind of horrifying to a lot of people, right? Somehow less so to kids. Maybe because you think that if we're in a simulation, none of this is real. But yeah, I think that's the wrong way to think about it. It doesn't mean that nothing here is real. We can get that meaning just as well in a simulated world, as in an unsimulated world.

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