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Elon Musk Says There’s a ‘One in Billions’ Chance Reality Is Not a Simulation

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atypican(4875) Disputed
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I don't see how the likelihood that we were preceded by an earlier humanoid group that has already advanced far beyond our level is established. It seems to be just declared likely.

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JustIgnoreMe(4290) Clarified
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And all Musk is saying is that it is very likely.

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For a simulation to have irrational constants is pretty damming evidence that reality is not some kind of simulation. if there is something that produces a number of infinite digits that never repeat, then the necessary storage that the computer operating the simulation would have to have is equally infinite. and I would think that you cannot have a computer with infinite storage. in fact, a simulation creates more problems than it answers.

because if we're in a simulation all things must be accounted for within data instead of physical structures. a simple act like throwing a ball in the real world has real interactions. whereas a simulation would have to have rules and protocols for how things actually interact. the amount of RNG that would happen if the real world was data would be simply astronomical. unless every last stone on the road, or pocket of different temperature air was stored, in which case the computer would already have infinite amounts of data to sift through. so either it's RnJesus, or it's infinite amounts of storage for every last molecule of the universe. both seem less likely than simply saying that those things physically exist. So...if I'm reading this correctly the musk guy says Reality is a simulation? that just seems ludicrous to me.

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