Are we living in a simulation? (video)

Are we living in a computer simulation?

According to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it is almost a mathematical certainty that such is the case. But don't worry:

Whether we live in a computer simulation or not doesn't really affect how we should live our lives. The world is still going to the same - the same things make us happy and the same problems will still have to be solved.

Even if we're not real, we perceive our world to be real. This is similar to the brain in a vat thought experiment. We can never be totally sure whether we are materialistically real. We could be inside a computer simulation but we are still real in the sense that we have thoughts and feelings. [Are we real?]

Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?

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Smarter-Than-Human Intelligence - The Singularity

"The Singularity" is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence

Several technologies are heading in this direction.

• Artificial Intelligence,
• Direct brain-computer interfaces,
• Biological augmentation of the brain,
• Genetic engineering,
• Ultra-high-resolution scans of the brain followed by computer emulation

Sometime in the next few decades, we can expect this breakthrough

An institute with the mission to confront both the opportunity and the risk of this urgent challenge is:

The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

via: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky