The universe is estimated to be 13 point something billion years old, and they wait it almost ten billion years to a life. Lest ler gravat says, if this is a simulation, why are the people running the simulation so patient? Well, there's no particular reason to think that those ten millionaires were assimulated. Did i need to do it from the big bang onwards? You could start dissimulation from a later point. It depends on how fast the computer is that you run the simulation on.
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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