If I had that much influence I would also make up stuff just to see what kind of junk people believe.
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Seems like the perfect place to post Roko's Basilisk.
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It's a 3 year old article that talks about the singularity and mentions Elon Musk by name as believing in it happening. This was the first I've heard of it. It is amazing that this is something people actually believe in. I love how something as ephemeral as our thoughts could have real world implications, it's kinda mind blowing if you really think about it.
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Sounds a bit baudrillardish
Meanwhile in.... MACHINES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wmtsTuHkt0
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Old quote is old - and Elon is super egotistical if he thinks that just because he, personally, is running a lot of simulations and talks to a lot of people about simulations that we all must be living inside of one. I mean that would be like a doctor thinking that because everyone he sees has viruses and he talks about viruses a lot that we all must be viruses.... or a teacher thinking we all must be students... or a carpenter thinking we're all just nails.
It's really dumb.
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And we give him a soapbox because he's got a lot of money. Anyhow, I've considered the "is life a simulation" question to some extent, and the answer I came up with is that if so we'd probably never know or be able to change anything about it, therefore I'll continue to live my life as if it isn't a simulation.
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What if you knew it was a simulation? It doesn't change anything. You still suffer and live like it is the only reality you have till it ends. After that, we don't know...
Maybe you start as a new character, or everything ends or maybe wake up to the reality?
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Tom Cruise is a scientologist, yet we laugh about him. Now, suddenly, everyone gives legitimacy to Elon Musk because "he dat science dude!".
Well, as long as you're rich and look like you know stuff, you can say anything. Like Bill Nye with him talking about anything outside of his engineering doctorate.
Next, let's give the stage to Ben Carson when he says that the moon's made of cheese.
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well this is nothing new.. I think same theory was explained several times since the first Matrix movie. (end of 90s)
I wonder how many of you are NPCs :D
Also, why does he think games indistinguishable from reality means the end of the world?
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Tesla's battery tech... hax.
Also, here's one of my favorite old stories from the internet, on this topic.
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“Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously, and it's getting better every year. Soon we'll have virtual reality, augmented reality."
Yeah, but however realistic it gets I'll still get chat messages popping up from people trying to sell me Minecraft accounts or informing me of CS:GO raffles. "Good deal you will profit!"
Or failing that at least some messages about needing DLC or microtransactions to progress - otherwise who the hell is paying for this shit? I don't believe crap about humans hooked into a giant VR game being the most efficient form of energy production in a post-apocalyptic scenario...
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This just made me think of this snippet from one of Alan Watt's lectures
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Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and founder of Space X, Tesla and Paypal, has told an interviewer there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation.
Speaking at San Francisco’s Code Conference this week, Musk said that he has had “so many simulation discussions it’s crazy”, and that it got to the point where “every conversation [he had] was the AI/simulation conversation”.
He also claimed that, if we’re not living in a simulation, we could be approaching the end of the world.
Putting forward what he described as the “strongest argument” for consensus reality being in a simulation, Musky said: “Forty years ago we had Pong. Like, two rectangles and a dot. That was what games were.
“Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously, and it's getting better every year. Soon we'll have virtual reality, augmented reality.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/06/03/we-are-almost-definitely-living-in-a-matrix-style-simulation-cla/
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